Summary Information

Title: Joseph G. Lawton Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1833-1956

Creator:

• Lawton, Joseph G., 1822-1896

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 18

Quantity: 5.4 c.f. (12 archives boxes and 2 flat boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Personal, family, and business papers of the Lawton, Baird, Carey, Arndt, and Delany families of De Pere, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and New York, primarily focussed on the lives of Joseph Grellet Lawton, his wife, Ellen Virginia Baird Lawton, and their children and other relatives. Joseph G. Lawton was an early Wisconsin settler, entrepreneur, and developer instrumental in encouraging settlement and industrial growth in the Green Bay area. He and his wife held interests in land, banks, bridges, dams, and factories, as well as land and mining interests in Pennsylvania. The collection contains correspondence concerning family and personal news; business letterbooks and financial records from enterprises in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania; Joseph Lawton's daily journals and diaries; an account book of William M. Lawton, a Chicago attorney; and a few papers of Ellen J. Lawton Thompson.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0018