Lawton Family Collection, Circa 1881-Circa 1933.

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Lawton Family Collection, Circa 1881-Circa 1933.

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Collection, circa 1881-circa 1933, of the Lawton family of Michigan. Includes field notebooks of Charles DeWitt Lawton, written during his tenure as the State of Michigan Commissioner of Mineral Statistics, as well as correspondence of Charles Latham Lawton and Swaby Lawton. Also contains biographical information on family members including Charles Latham Lawton, Swaby Lawton, Nathan Oliver Lawton, Charles E. Wright and Ross Dunbar Blackburn.

0.70 cubic feet; 2 manuscript boxes.

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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SNAC Resource ID: 8098144

Michigan Technological University, J.R. Van Pelt & Opie Library; Michigan Tech

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Lawton, Swaby L.

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Michigan. Office of the Commissioner of Mineral Statistics

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Lawton, Charles L. (Charles Lantham) 1864-1946

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Lawton, Charles DeWitt 1835-1909

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Michigan Commissioner of Mining Statistics. From the description of Charles D. Lawton papers, 1890-1906. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419554 ...

Lawton family

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A one-time professor of engineering at the University of Michigan, Charles DeWitt Lawton (1835-1909) also assisted Major T. B. Brooks in the geological survey of the Marquette Iron region and the Menominee Range. He continued with his interest in the development of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and assisted his nephew, Charles E. Wright, in his field work as the Commissioner of Mineral Statistics. Eventually Lawton took over the active duties of the mining department and writing the re...