Lucius smith lowe family
The papers were originally sorted and catalogued during the 1920s and the correspondence was interfiled in one chronological file, as was then the custom. For Lucius Fairchild's years of public service, the researcher will also find here some official incoming letters. The largest and most important part of the collection consists of chronological CORRESPONDENCE in which letters to and from all members of the family are interfiled. Morris' correspondence adds information to this collection about her post-World War I interest in teaching English to Milwaukee immigrants as part of the Wisconsin Committee on Americanization. At the same time, some correspondence of Fairchild's daughter, Mary Fairchild Morris, previously catalogued as Wis Mss IQ, and some recent donations from the family were added to the Correspondence series. The remainder of the collection, which had never been truly arranged, was put in order. The correspondence was rehoused, but the original arrangement was not changed.
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Though available for use for many years, in 2005 the Fairchild collection received some additional arrangement and description.
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The papers are organized as CORRESPONDENCE, LUCIUS FAIRCHILD PAPERS, BUSINESS RECORDS, FAMILY PAPERS, MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, and PHOTOGRAPHS. There is a restriction on access to a portion of this material see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details. Fairchild's business interests), family papers, and photographs.
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The collection also contains e material related to several other members of the Fairchild family, including correspondence, business records (pertaining particularly to his father Jairus C. The papers document Fairchild's varied career, including his military service, tenure as Dane County circuit county clerk, governor, and diplomat in Liverpool, Paris, and Madrid as well as his involvement with the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and other Civil War veteran's organizations, the early history of Madison, the gold rush in California, and travels. Papers of Lucius Fairchild, a Wisconsin Civil War general, Dane County circuit court clerk (1859-1861), Republican governor (1866-1872), and United States consul and diplomatic representative (1872-1881) including general correspondence, records of his public offices, speeches and writings, diaries, business records, family papers, and photographs.