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Summary Information
Lawrence C. Whittet Papers
1840-1954
- Whittet, Lawrence C., 1871-1954
Mss 27; PH 1562-PH 1564
1.6 c.f. (3 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 25 photographs (3 folders)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Lawrence Whittet, a Wisconsin businessman, state legislator, New Deal program administrator, and executive secretary to Governor Philipp (1915-1921), including correspondence, diaries, reminiscences, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, and newspaper clippings, and papers of his maternal forbears who were pioneer Wisconsin settlers. The family papers include the diary (1845-1855) of James Clarke, Whittet's great-grandfather, describing the experiences of an English immigrant to Albion Prairie in rural Dane County. The reminiscences of James' son Samuel, from 1894, and family correspondence, 1840-1887, document rural life and the influence of the Universalist Church on the Clarke family. The second part of the collection concerns Whittet's early career in Edgerton, Wisconsin and his subsequent political career in Madison. Diaries, 1940-1948, from his term as director of the State Oil Inspection Division, concern office and personnel matters. Correspondents include Marshall Cousins, Philip F. La Follette, Robert M. La Follette, and Irvine Lenroot. Photographs document events surrounding Governor Philipp's inauguration in 1915, and a duck hunting trip made by politically prominent individuals in 1920.
English
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