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 cubic feet (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, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Personal and professional papers of Robert S. Cowie, a lawyer and judge in Trempealeau County and La Crosse, Wisconsin. Includes correspondence to Cowie concerning family matters, Republican party politics, and support for Robert M. La Follette in Wisconsin (1903-1908); correspondence, speeches, financial records, and newspaper clippings documenting Cowie's successful campaign for circuit court judge (1922-1924); and correspondence concerning cases heard by Cowie, his possible nomination to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and local and state political issues (1934-1941). Also includes 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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