George W. Lawe papers, 1754-1914 (bulk 1820-1860).

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George W. Lawe papers, 1754-1914 (bulk 1820-1860).

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Letters, indentures, account sheets, bills and receipts, certificates, census list of American Indians, and other papers, relating primarily to the fur trade, land investments, and relations with American Indian tribes of George W. Lawe or of his father John Lawe, chiefly in Brown County (Michigan, later Wisconsin), Green Bay (Wis.), and Kaukauna (Wis.). Topics include John Lawe's work for the American Fur Company; George W. Lawe's Indian Sub-Agency at Green Bay (1842-1843, 1851-1853); American Indian treaties and land transfers chiefly involving Menominee, Stockbridge, and Winnebago Indians; Henry Atkinson and the Black Hawk War; bridge building on the Fox River (1850s); Lawe's position as U.S. Postmaster at Kaukauna (1849, 1878-1885); reminiscences of early Wisconsin; and Lawe family affairs and genealogy. Correspondents include Ramsay Crooks, James Duane Doty, Michael Dousman, Louis Franchere, Alexander A. Grignon, Amable Grignon, Charles Augustin Grignon, Peter B. Grignon, John Scott Horner, Timothy Otis Howe, Catherine A. Lawe, John Lawe, Morgan Lewis Martin, John F. Meade, Elias Murray, William Charles Russell, Robert Stuart, and Andrew Jacques Vieau.

1 oversize folder.6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Master copy for reproduction use only).

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Murray, Elias.

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Grignon, Peter B.

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Atkinson, Henry, 1782-1842

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Colonel (brevet brigadier general), United States Army. From the description of Legal document : Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1819 March 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26677404 Henry Atkinson was a United States soldier. He commanded an expedition to the mouth of the Yellowstone River in 1819, in which the main force advanced only to Council Bluffs on the Missouri River. In 1824 a second expedition, commanded by Atkinson and Benjamin O'Fal...

Doty, James Duane.

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Grignon, Alexander, 1811-1883

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Lawe, Catherine A.

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Dousman, Michael.

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Grignon, Charles Augustin.

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Howe, Timothy O. (Timothy Otis), 1816-1883

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U.S. senator from Wisconsin, U.S. postmaster general, and jurist. From the description of Letter of Timothy O. Howe, circa 1881. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79451050 American political leader. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Green Bay, to the President, 1865 June 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269525008 ...

Russell, William Charles

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Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859

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Born at Greenock, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1787, and emigrated to Montreal at the age of 16. Entered the employ of a fur trader, Robert Dickson, at Mackinac, but soon, in 1806, moved on to St. Louis and formal partnership with Robert McClellan for trade on the upper Missouri. In 1810 the partnership was dissolved, Crooks returned to Canada, and there joined the recruits for the proposed overland journey to Astoria. He became a partner in Astor's Pacific Fur Company, but after a disheartening journey re...

Martin, Morgan Lewis.

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Franchere, Louis.

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Lawe, John, 1780-1846

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Vieau, Andrew Jacques.

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Horner, John Scott.

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Lawe, George William, 1810-1895

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American Fur Company

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Fur trading company in the American West. From the description of Papers, 1835-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497429 Chartered by John Astor in 1808. Astor withdrew his interest in 1834 and in 1864 the company was sold to the North Western Fur Company. From the description of American Fur Company records, 1803-1849. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 56975212 No information is available on Livingstone, except as noted above. Franchere...

Meade, John F.

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Grignon, Amable.

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Stuart, Robert.

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