Summary Information

Title: Robert S. Cowie Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1903-1948

Creator:

• Cowie, Robert S. (Robert Somerville), 1873-1951

Call Number: La Crosse Mss V

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division

Archival Locations:

See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.

UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Personal and professional papers of Robert S. Cowie, a lawyer and judge in Trempealeau County and La Crosse, Wisconsin. Included is correspondence to Cowie, 1903-1908, concerning family matters, Republican Party politics, and support for Robert M. La Follette in Wisconsin. Correspondence, speeches, financial records, and newspaper clippings, 1922-1924, document Cowie's successful campaign for circuit court judge; and other correspondence, 1934-1941, concerns cases heard by Cowie, his possible nomination to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and local and state political issues. Three 1935 letters from J. Edgar Hoover to Cowie concern the shooting of John Dillinger.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx000v

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