Box 10, Folder 3: Correspondence 1866

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Title: Box 10, Folder 3: Correspondence 1866
Document Title: Box 10, Folder 3: Correspondence 1866
Creator: Lapham, Increase Allen, 1811-1875
Folder Description: This folder contains mostly personal and professional correspondence with Increase Allen Lapham in the year 1866. These letters pertain to a variety of Lapham's interests, particularly engineering, geology, botany, and especially meteorology. A large number of letters discuss various surveys and canal projects, such as the Rock River Canal. Newspaper clippings, graphs, and other documents in this folder include: "Expenses of Parit [sic] Exposition"; "Resolution to Employ Increase Allen Lapham for the Purpose of Examining the Dam"; "Barometer and Thermometer during the Cold term Jan. 1866. From Observations Made at the Dudley Observatory"; "Maps of Town 12, Range 16"; "Estimate of the Crops of Wisconsin"; "The Death of General Cass."
Subject: agriculture; animals; Civil War; data & lists; drawings (Lapham's); engineering; geology; graphs; institutions & associations; lakes; law & legislation; map-making; maps (included in folder); Milwaukee & Rock River Canal; Native Americans; personal & family life; plants; railroads; rivers; surveys & surveying; weather & climate; Draper, Lyman C.; James Leffel & Co.; Stimpson, William; Hart, Charles H.; Fairchild, Lucius; Hoyt, John Wesley; Tanner, John; Holly, A.; Wright, Henry M.; Whittlesey, Charles; Gray, Asa; Kingston, George Templeman; Lapham, Julia Alcott; Lapham, Mary Jane; Robbins, James Watson; Richardson, H.; Foucou, Folix; Gilbert, Benjamin Davis; Theaker, Thomas C.; Hall, James; Raynolds, William Franklin; Stone, Samuel; Hough, George Washington; Watson, James Craig; Parry, Charles Christopher; Safford, James M.; Hobart, Edward F.; Gooding, William; Bergen, J. Y.; Bradley, T. S.; Burstall, L.; Durrie, Daniel Steele; Dewey, Chester; Taylor, Alfred B.; Engelman, George; Fairchild, Charles; Phillips, Ellen E.; Ogden, M. D.
Date: 1866
Language: English
Source: Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Correspondence 1866, Box 10, Folder 3); WIHV95-A24
Type: Text
Publisher-Electronic: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic: 2016
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Digital Format: XML
Digital Identifier: Lapham(WisMssDB)B10F3-000
Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections
Source: From: Box 10, Folder 3: Correspondence 1866

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