Box 31, Folder 1: Calendar of Lapham Papers 1852-1860

1852 Jan.

Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Madison. Henry M. Billings, President, Albert C. Ingham, Recording Secretary. Certificate of membership to Increase A. Lapham.

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1852 Jan. 11

Lapham, I[ncrease] A[llen]. [Milwaukee.] Lecture [on "Temperance"] Before Oregon Temperance League, Milwaukee. No religion without temperance; clergymen beginning to recognize need of advocating temperance; success of Quakers due to adherence to Temperance principles; first to adopt them; Lapham's home influences; youth should be trained at home; compares danger to that of man above Niagara Falls; social power of liquor; courage needed; community. should provide suitable places of amusement as European countries do; United States compared with France; quotation from Silliman's Journal; necessity for temperance in speech; looseness leads to recklessness in conduct; responsibility of "ladies" on New Year's Day; why temperance question (See next card)

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1852 Jan. 11

Lapham. Lecture (Con) 2.

should be in politics; cost of intemperance to community. Typewritten copy, 15 pp.

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1852 Jan. 14

Foreman, E.- Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. To Lapham. [Orrin] Densmote complains of not receiving the blanks sent to observers; fault in mails; regrets discontinuance [of Densmore's meteorological observations]; corresponding with State Agricultural society regarding system for Wisconsin. A. L. S. 1 p.

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1852 Jan. 19

McDonaugh, Thomas. Engineer, Fond du Lac. To Lapham. Railroad elevations not yet determined, except at Horicon Pond, 120 feet above Lake Winnebago; seventeen miles of road being constructed; has notes on two artesian wells dug for railroad; sketch of profile; bottom of Lake Horicon thrown up with loud report every winter; will study phenomenon. A.L.S. lp. Endorsed: Thos. McDonaugh, Valley R. Road, F du Lac Co.

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