1974
Notable Wisconsin Authors
Louise
Phelps Kellogg
Increase Allen Lapham
William Ellery Leonard
Thorstein Bunde Veblen
Glenway Wescott
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louise Phelps Kellogg, 1862-1942
(Eva) Louise Phelps Kellogg (1862-1942) was born in Milwaukee and received
her early education in Evanston, Illinois and Chicago’s Dearborn Seminary.
In 1882 she graduated from Milwaukee-Downer College and received her
B.L. degree in 1897 from the University of Wisconsin. She then began
graduate studies in history under Frederick Jackson Turner, gaining
her Ph.D. in 1901. In that year she also began her lifelong career at
the Historical Society of Wisconsin, starting as an assistant to Reuben
Gold Thwaites. In her over 40 years spent with the Society she played
a key role in the editing and publication of many of the renowned titles
emerging from the Society, including selections from the Draper manuscripts
and the thirty-two volume series of “Early Western Travels.” She also
contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and was a widely
known lecturer and radio speaker, and active in many organizations,
including the American Historical Association, the Madison Literary
Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Wisconsin
College Equal Suffrage League. Her most highly regarded works are considered
to be The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest and the
follow-up work The British Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest,
which solidified her reputation as a foremost authority on the history
of this region.
Honors
American Historical Association Justin Winsor Prize
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Great Britain
Wisconsin Archaeological Society Lapham Medal
Selected Books
The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest (1925)
The British Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest (1935)
Early narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699 (1917)
The American Colonial Charter; A study of English Administration in
Relation Thereto, Chiefly after 1688 (1904)
Frontier advance on the upper Ohio, 1778-1779 (1916)
Stagecoach and tavern tales of the Old Northwest (1930)
Increase Allen Lapham, 1811-1875
Increase Lapham was born in Palmyra, New York in 1811 and died in 1875
in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. He had little formal education, but earned
an Honorary LL.D. from Amherst College in 1860. This renowned naturalist
spent his early years as a canal worker out east before becoming a developer,
surveyor, and land speculator in the Milwaukee area from 1836 to 1875.
He also served as a meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau, as well
as being Wisconsin state geologist from 1873-1875, and contributed to
research conducted by the Smithsonian Institute. Most of his writings
are scientific in their focus, and he published at least 45 articles
and several monographs. The diverse topics covered in his writings include
studies of the origin of effigy mounds, the impact of the destruction
of forestlands on erosion and water quality, and various cartographic
materials.
Honors
Honorary LL.D., Amherst College, 1860
Selected Works
The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described, 1855
Report on the Disastrous Effects of the Destruction of Forest Trees,
Now Going on so Rapidly in the State of Wisconsin, 1867
Wisconsin: Its Geography and Topography, History, Geology, and Mineralogy;
Together with Brief Sketches of its Antiquities, Natural History, Soil,
Productions, Population, and Government, 1844
William Ellery Leonard, 1876-1944
Thorstein Bunde Veblen, 1857-1929
Glenway Wescott, 1901-1987
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1869-1959
