Box 2, Folder 6: Draft Biography of Increase Lapham
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- 1829-1902
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This folder contains a biographical essay on the life of Increase Lapham written by his daughter, Julia Alcott Lapham; as well as what appears to be an incomplete preface, and transcribed letters. The essay and transcriptions were created by Julia Lapham sometime after her father's death in 1875. The biographical essay provides and outline of Lapham's life, supported by excerpts of letters written by family, friends, and colleagues. The transcribed letters are loosely organized, following Julia Lapham's pagination. Page 30 is out of order, this has been retained as the page is pinned to the back of page 15 A. Julia Lapham began in the early 1870s to hand write and then type a chronology of her father's life titled "Autobiography". In the process she destroyed much of Increase Lapham's original correspondence. In the "Notes on Sources" section of the Lapham biography, Studying Wisconsin, the authors comment on the editing and destruction of the original correspondence: "Though she [Juli
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Lapham, Julia Alcott
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- Straznicky, S. R
Swallow, G. C
Barry, William
Graham, George
Winchell, Newton H
Leland, Eugene R
Silliman, Benjamin
Lapham, Rachel Allen
Lea, Isaac
Lapham, Darius
Sullivant, Joseph
Riddell, John Leonard
Hildreth, Samuel Prescott
Schoolcraft, Henry R
Short, C. W
Morton, Samuel George
Darlington, William
Wilson, William
Lapham, Ann Alcott
Lesquereux, Leo
Lorrey, John
Carpenter, W. M
Curtis, M. A
Ridgway, J
Rafn, Carl Christian
Gray, Asa
Wood, Alphonso
Root, E
Haven, Samuel F
Henry, Joseph
Hoy, P. R
Ingham, Albert C
Percival, James Gates
Draper, Lyman C
Hopkins, B. F
Warren, John Collins
Bancroft, George
Agassiz, Louis
Erwin, John W
Whitney, Josiah Dwight
Hooker, Joseph
McChesney, J. H
Smith, John Lawrence
Mitchell, Alexander
Moore, Willis L
Salisbury, Stephen
Parry, Charles Christopher
Foster, J. W
Brown, John Crombie
Sherman, S. S
Strong, Moses M
Lapham, Mary
Butler, A. R. R
Smith, Harland J
Hall, Basil
Barrett, J
Lapham, Seneca
Granger, R
Buchanan, R
Dorfenile, J
Kirtland, James Potter
Ward, C. J
Featherstonhaugh, George W
Beecher, Catherine E
Beecher, Henry Ward
Juneau, Solomon
Atwater, Elizabeth E
Seallow, George Clinton
Chase, Enoch
Hull, Fred H
Baird, Spencer F
Caverno, Charles
Tenney, James H. A
Rooney, John
Hustis, Josephine L
Hulst, Nelson P
Doggett, Kate N
American Antiquarian Society
Archaeology
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Fossils
Geology
Grasses
Indian mounds (effigy mounds)
Institutions & associations
Milwaukee & Rock River Canal
Milwaukee (city)
National Weather Service
Personal & family life
Plants
Railroads
Shells
Surveys & surveying
Travels (Lapham's)
Weather & climate
Wisconsin Geological Survey - Type
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- Lapham, Julia Alcott. Box 2, Folder 6: Draft Biography of Increase Lapham. 1829-1902. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/3638. (Accessed April 20, 2024.)
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- Lapham, Julia Alcott, (1829-1902) Box 2, Folder 6: Draft Biography of Increase Lapham. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/3638
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- Lapham, Julia Alcott. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/3638>.