Title: Publius V. Lawson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1920

Creator:

• Lawson, Publius V. (Publius Virgilius), 1853-1920

Call Number: Wis Mss DE

Quantity: 3.2 cubic feet (12 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Publius V. Lawson Jr., a Menasha, Wisconsin, attorney, manufacturer, historian, author, and six-term mayor, consisting of correspondence, biographical information, articles, genealogical data, scrapbooks, and financial records.

Language: English

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Correspondence of the period 1870-1920 comprises approximately two-thirds of the collection. Included is legal correspondence, 1880-1910, deriving from his membership in the law firm of Lawson and Grunewald; and letters, 1901-1920, concerning the Wisconsin Archaeological Society and the State Historical Society from Charles E. Brown, Reuben G. Thwaites, and others.

The collection also contains considerable data on the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) and Potawatomi Indians; sketches and drawings of Indian mounds; a small amount of biographical material on Thure Kumlien; a draft of Lawson's biography of Charles de Langlade, Bravest of the Brave (Menasha, 1904); and notes gathered by Lawson while he was writing his History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its Cities, Towns, Resources, People (Chicago, 1908). In notebooks and other papers he collected genealogical data on the Lawson, Baird, Cook, Finney, Fleming, Peper, Williams, and Wright families, which he utilized in his Family Genealogy... (Menasha, 1903). Two scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings of some of his speeches and articles on temperance, politics, and education. Other materials are indicated in the contents list.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Lillian Lawson, West Allis, Wisconsin, August 17, 1954.

Wis Mss DE	Correspondence
Box   1	1840, 1847, 1870, 1877-1888
Box   2	1891 August-1903 October
Box   3	1903 November-1906 August
Box   4	1906 September-1908 December
Box   5	1909-1913
Box   6	1914-1918 June
Box   7	1918 July-1920 November
Box   7	undated
Box   7	Correspondence used in preparation of the “History of the Potawatomie Indian Tribe,” 1918-1919
Box   8	Clippings, local and personal
	Genealogical material
Box   8	Unbound material on Lawson, Finney, Cook, Williams, and others
	Bound memoranda of genealogical facts
Box   11 Volume   3	About Lawson, Baird, Peper, and Fleming families, begun 1899 September 30
Box   11 Volume   4	About Lawson, Baird, Peper, and Fleming families; begun 1899 December 18
Box   11 Volume   6	About Fleming, Baird, Peper, and Lawson families, begun 1900 July 14
Box   12 Volume   7	About Peper, Lawson, and Baird families, begun 1900 July 28
Box   12 Volume   8	About Wright and Finney family genealogy, begun 1900 January
	Writings and notes
Box   8	History of Winnebago County
Box   8	Speeches and articles
Box   8	Fragments of manuscript on Thure Kumlien
Box   9	Manuscript biography of Charles de Langlade
Box   11 Volume   2	Scrapbook containing clippings of printed speeches (many on temperance) by P.V. Lawson Jr. and essays by various others
Box   11 Volume   5	Memoranda on the life of P.V. Lawson Sr., by P.V. Lawson Jr., 1899 December 31-1900 January 1
Box   12 Volume   10	Ancient mounds, sketches and notes, begun 1897 September
Box   9	“A Portrait of P.V. Lawson, Jr.” by James M. Auer
Box   10	Bills, receipts, and checks--unsorted
Box   11 Volume   1	Account book of Publius Virgilius Maro Nicholas Lawson Sr., 1829-1843
Box   12 Volume   9	Scrapbook of clippings on P.V. Lawson Jr., 1902-1904
Box   12 Volume   11	Descriptive Catalogue, P.V. Lawson Collection, Geological, Prehistoric, Archaeological, Natural History, Numismatic, etc., begun 1898 October 23