Newspaper Clippings

HEAVY VOTE FOR FAME HALL

WILLIAM F. VILAS GETS 208 VOTES TUESDAY.

Sept 30 - 1909

Increase A. Lapham Was Honor to State and Started Many Great Enterprises for Which Wisconsin Is Grateful to His Memory

Mil. Journal

Carl Schurz..................612
Timothy O. Howe.........493
William F. Vilas............483
I. A. Lapham................458
William B. Cushing.......390
Hugh J. McGrath...........264
Black Hawk..................198
Jeremiah Rusk..............136
Henry L. Palmer............113
A. R. Hall......................109
Mathew Carpenter.........95
C. C. Washburn..............89
Edgar Wilson Nye...........50
Nathan H. Wood.............38

There has been a decided increase in the number of votes cast in the last few days and particularly in the letters received, which are gladly printed so far as space allows.
Votes were received in one letter from sixty-six member of the Freie Gemeinde for Carl Schurz.
One letter contained 208 votes for William Vilas, the largest single vote yet.

To the Editor of The Milwaukee Journal: Enclosed please find votes for Dr. Increase Allen Lapham, whose name the people of the state of Wisconsin as well as those abroad know and revere.

A few years ago a prize was offered by A. W. Rich & Co. for the best essay on Wisconsin's most distinguished citizen.
The prize was awarded the author of an essay on Dr. I. A. Lapham, Mrs. Amelia W. Bate.
She said in part, "That the state owes a great debt to Dr. Lapham for his labors in and for it for a period for forty years."
His name will ever be most closely associated with the early day of Wisconsin along many lines, especially sciences, as he was a meteorologist, mineralogist, geologist, botanist and archaeologist.
His works on archaeology are still an authority.

He was the father or our weather bureau system, which was the means of saving many lives.

He took a prominent part in the organization of the schools of Wisconsin, especially in Milwaukee, but the school for the Deaf and Dumb at Delevan was the outgrowth of his efforts and work.

Many people may not know that our Milwaukee public library grew from a club called the Young Men's club, which was founded by Dr. I. A. Lapham.

He has written many books on the topography and geography of Wisconsin, which in the early days brought many settlers to this soil to help in the development of so rich a state.

"Members of the various Wisconsin scientific and historic societies as well as the friends of education most generally feel that the name of Dr. Lapham should be perpetuated in a manner that would be fitting to this wonderful man."

MRS. GUY C. LINDOW,
Milwaukee.

CALL IT LAPHAM PARK

Archaeologists Believe Recent Purchase from Schiltz Company Should Be So Named

Wisconsin Oct 19-1909

The Wisconsin Archaeological society has petitioned the common council and the park board to bestow Dr. I. A. Lapham's name on Schlitz park.
The resolution recites that Dr. Lapham was the pioneer archaeologist in Wisconsin and that honor should be accorded his memory.

In 1836, it was shown by records, Dr. I. A. Lapham surveyed Schlitz park, a great Indian mound.
Dr. Lapham also did a vast amount of research work among other Indian mounds.
In the public museum are many relics of the Indian found by the noted explorer and inventor.

President Daniel Erdmann of the park board favors Lapham for Schlitz park and the name undoubtedly will be bestowed upon the last park acquired by the city.

C. E. Brown, the curator, read a paper Monday night on his findings during a trip down the Wisconsin river from Lone Rock to Prairie du Chien.
At the next meeting of the society, November 15, Prof. A. P. Stout of the Wisconsin university will read a paper on the "The Mandan Villages of North Dakota."