DOCSLIB.ORG

A Journal of American Postal History

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
A Journal of American Postal History June - July 2002 Volume 33, Number 3 Whole Number 195 IN THIS ISSUE: The Travels of LT. Richard L. Poor, U.S.N By Rod Crossley .......... 9 Bagley, Cuba - United States Post Office on LA POSTA: A JOURNAL South Toro Cay, Guantanamo Bay By Mark Piper .......... 15 OF AMERICAN POSTAL West Virginia Research Papers Erbacon HISTORY By Alyce Evans .......... 19 Montana Territorial Postmarks Part 7: Madison County 33470 Chinook Plaza, Suite 216, By Wesley N. Shellen & Francis Dunn ....... 20 Scappoose, OR 97056 The Postmasters General of the United Website: www.la-posta.com States, Part 2 Timothy Pickering, 1791-1795 Publisher: Richard W. Helbock By Daniel Y. Meschter .......... 30 Associate Editors: Henry Berthelot Tom Clarke The Post Offices of Letcher County, Rod Crossley Michael Dattolico Kentucky, Part 3 Martin Margulis Bob Munshower By Robert M. Rennick .......... 36 Dennis H. Pack Robert G. Schultz Randy Stehle Oregon Post Office Snapshots—Lincoln Advertising Manager: Cathy R. Clark County By Richard W. Helbock .......... 44 COVER: Our cover illustrates a Christmas card dating from 1939. The card was mailed by a young naval officer The History of Divided Back United States who was a member of Patrol Squadron 21. The squadron Post Cards - Everything You Ever Wanted to was newly arrived in the Philippines and one of their Know About Messages on the Address Side PBY-4 aircraft is shown flying over rice fields of the Philippines. Rod Crossley explains. By Randy Stehle .......... 54 La Posta: A Journal of American Postal History is published six times a year Post Office First Proposals: August 11, 1794 with issues mailed on or about the 20th of February, April, June, August, October and December. Persons wishing additional information about ad- Part 1 vertising, manuscript submittals or subscription should contact the pub- By Tom Clarke .......... 62 lisher at 33470 Chinook Plaza, Suite 216, Scappoose, OR 97056 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S. A. - $20.00 per annum (6 issues) Also Miscellaneous Columns, Notes CANADA - $28(US) per annum (6 issues) and Announcements OVERSEAS - $32.00 per annum surface - $55.00 per annum airmail 2 July 2002 La Posta LA POSTA SUSTAINING SUBSCRIBERS The following individuals and institutions have contributed financial assistance to La Posta in excess of their subscriptions. We are indebted to them for their generous support. Without it La Posta could not continue to exist. Joseph J. Adamski Kenton Forrest Orville Mohr Howard A. Wallace Gary Anderson Dale Forster Jack E. Molesworth M. Lauck Walton Bill Arata Stamp Company Myron Fox E. F. (Al) Mueller Ronald A. Wankel Archives International LLC John J. Germann John G. Mullen Dr. Ronald A. Ward “A. A. Armstrong, Jr. MD” Glenn Gholston Robert Myerson Roy Ware Jon K. Arndt C. Dorance Gibbs Burnham S. Neill John Weigle Dennis K. Austin Michael Goldstein Eric A. Nelson Edward Weinberg Ted Bahry Max A. Gors Ray L. Newburn Jr. Larry Weinstock Mark T. Baker Ted Gruber Francis E.W. Ogle Kenneth L. White Kendall Lee Ballard Seely Hall Jr. Arthur E. Olson C. Michael Wiedemann Jacob M. Bard Larry J. Haller Douglas Olson Kirk Wolford Richard Bard Jr. Kenneth L. Hamlin Robert Omberg John Wright Edmund Bashista John T. Hardy Jr. Bruce E. Panek Richard Wyman Rex J. Bates Wayne Hassell Richard H. Parker Nicholas Zevos Henry F. Battestin Jr. Thomas Hayes Alan Parsons William H. Bauer Bruce Hazelton Donald R. Pearson Robert A. Beall Dr. Edwin J. Helitzer Eugene T. Peterson Arthur E. Beane Jr. Gary G. Hendren Hans Pohler John E. Beane MD H. Stanton Hill Rev. Elwood S. Poore John W. Becker Dorlon Himber Louis Prahar John Beirne Terence Hines Stephen Prigozy William R. Beith Joseph A. Holzman Robert Quintero Bary D. Bender Victor Horadam MD Mrs. Beatrice Rainier Dr. Steven J. Berlin B. Clyde Hutchinson James H. Raley Henry J. Berthelot James H. Inverarity Peter J. Rathwell Donald G. Beuthel James D. Jacobitz MD Robert D. Rawlins John Bigart Stefan T. Jaronski Byron L. Reed Dr. W.Wallace Bilyeu Jonathan L. Johnson Jr. Louis A. Repetto James B. Blandford Al E. Jones Robley D. Rhine Thomas V. Boettger Charles A. Jones Norman N. Ritchie Eppe Bosch Gordon E. Katz Hal Ross Deane R. Briggs M.D. Phil Kay Vincent A. Ross John Broberg Robert Keatts Millard H. Ruether Roger S. Brody Curtis R. Kimes Roger Rydberg William E. Brooks Lucien S. Klein Edmund J. Schenck Jr. Dan Brouillette Kenneth Kloss Schmitt Investors Ltd. Mike Brown Daniel M. Knowles M.D. Neil C. Schroeder Stuart R. Brown Kelly J. Krizan MD Robert G. Schultz Dr. Kenneth E. Burden Jon E. Krupnick Joseph Sedivy Elmer Campbell Alfred F. Kugel Michael Senta MD E. B. Cantey Jr. Richard E. Kunz Terry Shaw Thomas E. Caton Floyd Kunzwiler Timothy M. Sheehan Thomas E. Chastang William O. Kvale Wesley N. Shellen C. Robert Chow Walter P. LaForce Gina Sheridan Clay’s Covers Edward C. LaFountain James E. Shew Louis Cohen Dick Laird David J. Simmons Stephen E. Cohen Curt J. Lamm Donald T. Smith Giles R. Cokelet Eliot A. Landau Rev. Fred K. Smyithe David C. Collyer Russell Lang Al Soth Philip C. Cooley Robert M. Langer John W. Spangler Bruce L. Corey Peter Larson Gus Spector M.D. Joe H. Crosby Howard Lee Duane Spidle Rod Crossley James E. Lee Ken Stach Raymond A. Currier Arnold A. Leiter Uncle Sam S&C Thomas E. Stanton Richard F. Curtin Brian P. Levy Randy Stehle Matt Dakin Richard A. Long Seymour B. Stiss Doug DeRoest Robert Lorenz Robert Stoldal Carl R. Ditsch Thomas H. Luellen W. L. Strauss Lee Drickamer Dr. Dennis J. Lutz Bob Summerell Joseph E. DuBois Millard Mack Robert A. Svoboda Robert M. Ebiner Larry Dean Maddux P.L.S. John & Nina Swanson Bernard J. Eddy Howard A. Mader Stephen T. Taylor Craig Eggleston Richard Malmgren Robert Tepe Stephen W. Ekstrom Oscar R. Marsh The Postal History Foundation Jim Elin Peter Martin Donald G. Thompson Mike Ellingson Bernard D. Mayer Jr. Don Tocher David M. Ellis Thomas C. Mazza Thomas K. Todsen Roland H. Ensz Larry McBride Allan Tomey Alyce & Don Evans R.J. McEwen William Jay Treat Arthur R. Everett William T. McGreer Ron Trosclair Arthur Everett Robert G. Metcalf Joseph A. Turek Richard Farquhar Jewell L. Meyer Mort D. Turner Ronald W. Finger Steven Miedziak Tonny E. Van Loij Sidney Fingerhood Lynn I. Minneman Frank Von Borstel La Posta July 2002 3 PUBLISHER'S PAGE Preserving the Photographic Past have long since sold to other collectors, I did Many collectors specializing in the postal history keep a few of Ramsey’s of a particular county, state or region also acquire original album pages be- photographs of the post offices that have operated cause they so clearly in their area of interest. Since post offices—par- showed the love and care ticularly small town and rural offices—often change the man devoted to his locations to inhabit different buildings throughout collection. The single their lives, the photos in our collections become page in my hands that still important historical records over time. Having had displays one of Ramsey’s experience with the disposition of a number of covers along with his postal history estates over the years, I can assure write-up and collateral il- you that most liquidators pay scant attention to pho- lustrations is illustrated tographs and other such embellishments of a col- below. Of course, the black and white version lection. Their attention is understandably focused shown here doesn’t do the page justice. The pho- on the value of the collection, i.e., the collectible tos of the dam and post office building are in cards and covers. As a result, there is a high prob- color—both have been hand-tinted—and the lo- ability that such historically valuable artifacts as cator maps also add a splash of color. post office photographs may become lost or dis- carded as the collection is broken down for resale. Until recently, I have been unaware of any satis- factory solution to the problem of preserving col- A classic case of this loss of historic artifacts oc- lateral material in a postal history collection— curred in the early 1980s when the collection of particularly post office pictures. Over the past few Guy Reed Ramsey was disposed at auction. Ramsey years there have been impressive developments was a quintessential researcher. Best known now in technology associated with personal comput- for his postal history studies of many Washington ers that permit storage of massive amounts of digi- counties, he collected postmarks from all over the tized information at very little cost. Photographs Northwest and beyond. His penchant was to mount are easily converted to digitized information cards and covers on elaborate album pages that were through the use of an inexpensive peripheral de- frequently embellished with maps, sketches and vice called a scanner. Today’s scanners are ca- photographs of the locality and its post office. The pable of digitizing photographs at resolutions of collection was auctioned largely in bulk lots. In 1200 dots per inch (dpi) or higher. By compari- popular states, that meant albums containing a par- son, high quality photographs reproduced in slick ticular county formed one lot, but in less popularly magazines require only 250 dpi and images ap- collected states postmarks from the entire state were pearing on a computer screen are typically pre- often grouped as a lot. The collection was widely sented at 72 or 75 dpi. dispersed in a series of auctions. No doubt, some collectors who purchased bits of the Ramsey Col- A photograph scanned at high resolution requires lection saved his collateral material. Others buyers a much larger file size to hold the digitized infor- probably did not.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • J. Willard Hurst Collection, 1932 - 1997 Finding Aid
    J. Willard Hurst Collection, 1932 - 1997 Finding Aid Pen and ink drawing of Hurst by Elliot Banfield Appeared with column about Hurst in the New York Times (March 23, 1990) University of Wisconsin Law Library 975 Bascom Mall Madison, WI 53706 June, 2007 University of Wisconsin Law School © Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Summary Information: Repository: University of Wisconsin Law Library Creator: Hurst, J. Willard Quantity: 38 archives boxes, 15 books, 6 binders, and 1 typewriter Processing Information: Prepared by Bonnie Shucha, Stephanie Rytilahti, and Steven Weber, January 2003 – June 2007 Access Restrictions: Access to these papers is governed by the rules and regulations of the University of Wisconsin Law Library. This collection is open to the public, but is housed in the library’s Rare Book Room. Consult the library staff for further information. Use Restrictions: Requests for permission to publish material from this collection should be directed to the UW Law Library staff. Researchers who obtain permission to publish from the library are also responsible for identifying and contacting the persons or organizations who hold copyright. Scope and Content: The J. Willard Hurst Collection details the career of the man commonly identified as the father of modern American legal history. The collection primarily spans the years 1932 through Hurst’s death in 1997. The bulk of material dates between 1946 and 1980 when Hurst was a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he developed the field of American legal economic history through his scholarship and teaching. The collection provides insight into the evolution of Hurst’s view of legal history and his role in developing a community for legal historians.
    [Show full text]
  • What's New with Vilas Awards?
    9/18/2018 What’s New with Vilas Awards? WELCOME! Please take a handout and find a seat. 1 University of Wisconsin - Madison Symposium for Research Administrators University of Wisconsin-Madison September 26th, 2018 2 What’s New with Vilas Awards? Updates and Answers John Varda, Managing Officer, RSP NonFed Post‐Award Team and Angie Johnson, RSP Post‐Award Accountant, NonFed Post‐Award Team 3 University of Wisconsin - Madison 1 9/18/2018 What’s New with Vilas Awards? The plan for today’s session • Introduction • Presentation: • Background about William F. Vilas and the Vilas Trust • New Salary and Fringe Rules • Overview of the main Vilas award types • Vilas award timeline • Q&A 4 University of Wisconsin - Madison Vilas Awards at UW‐Madison Prestigious Generous Multi‐Faceted Quirky 5 University of Wisconsin - Madison William Freeman Vilas 1840‐1908 Soldier, Statesman & Scholar Benefactor 1840‐Born in Vermont 1851‐Family settled in Madison, Wisconsin 1858‐Graduated UW with Highest Honors 1860‐Law Degree from Albany Law School 1860‐Returned to Madison to practice law 1862‐Volunteered for the Union 23rd Wisconsin Infantry under Ulysses S. Grant 1863‐Promoted to Major, then Lt. Colonel 6 University of Wisconsin - Madison 2 9/18/2018 William Freeman Vilas 1868‐1885 – UW Law Professor 1875‐1878 – Reviser of Wisconsin Statutes 1881‐1885 – UW Regent 1884 –Democratic National Convention Chair 1885 – Elected to Wisconsin State Assembly 1885‐1888 – Appointed Post‐Master General 1888‐1889 –Secretary of the Interior 1891‐1897 – Elected to US Senate 1898‐1905 – UW Regent 1898‐1908 – Focus on Business 1908 – Died, buried at Forest Hill Cemetery 7 University of Wisconsin - Madison The Vilas Trust Prior to his death, William Freeman Vilas created the William F.
    [Show full text]
  • THE DEPARTMENT of EVERYTHING ELSE Highlights Of
    THE DEPARTMENT OF EVERYTHING ELSE Highlights of Interior History 1989 THE DEPARTMENT OF EVERYTHING ELSE Highlights of Interior History by Robert M. Utley and Barry Mackintosh 1989 COVER PHOTO: Lewis and Clark Expedition: Bas-relief by Heinz Warneke in the Interior Auditorium, 1939. Contents FOREWORD v ORIGINS 1 GETTING ORGANIZED 3 WESTERN EMPHASIS 7 NATIONWIDE CONCERNS 11 EARLY PROBLEMS AND PERSONALITIES 14 THE CONSERVATION MOVEMENT 18 PARKS AND THE PARK SERVICE 22 INTERIOR'S LAND LABORATORY: THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 25 MINING, GRAZING, AND MANAGING THE PUBLIC DOMAIN 27 FISH AND WILDLIFE 30 INDIANS AND THE BIA 32 TERRITORIAL AFFAIRS 34 TWENTIETH CENTURY HEADLINERS AND HIGHLIGHTS 36 AN IMPERFECT ANTHOLOGY 48 NOTES 50 APPENDIX 53 Hi Foreword ven though I arrived at the Department of the Interior with a back­ E ground of 20 years on the Interior Committee in the House of Repres­ entatives, I quickly discovered that this Department has more nooks and crannies than any Victorian mansion or colonial maze. Fortunately, my predecessor, Secretary Don Hodel, had come to realize that many new employees-I'm not sure he had Secretaries in mind-could profit from a good orientation to the Department and its many responsibilities. Secretary Hodel had commissioned the completion of a Department history, begun some 15 years earlier, so that newcomers and others interested in the Department could better understand what it is and how it got that way. This slim volume is the result. In it you will find the keys to understanding a most complex subject--an old line Federal Department. v This concise explanation of Interior's growth was begun by then Na­ tional Park Service historian Robert M.
    [Show full text]
  • Wisconsin Magazine of History
    Wisconsin I Magazine of History Wisconsin Ethnic Group and the Election of 1890 ROGER E. WYMAN The Ordinance of 1787 JACK E. EBLEN The IWW and the S^estion of Violence JOSEPH R. CONLIN Published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin / Vol. 31, No. 4 / Summer, 1968 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Director Officers THOMAS H. BARLAND, President HERBERT V. KOHLER, Honorary Vice-President JOHN C. GEILFUSS, First Vice-President E. E. HoMSTAD, Treasurer CLIFFORD D. SWANSON, Second Vice-President LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Secretary Board of Curators Ex-Ojficio WARREN P. KNOWLES, Governor of the State HAROLD W. CLEMENS, State Treasurer ROBERT C. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of State FRED H. HARRINGTON, President of the University MRS. EDWARD H. RIKKERS, President of the Women's Auxiliary Term Expires, 1968 MRS. HENRY BALDWIN KENNETH W. HAACENSEN MRS. WILLIAM H. L. SMYTHE FREDERICK N. TROWBRIDGE Wisconsin Rapids Oconomowoc Milwaukee Green Bay GEORGE BANTA, JR. ROBERT B. L. MURPHY WILLIAM F. STARK CEDRIC A. VIC Menasha Madison Pewaukee Rhinelander H. M. BENSTEAD FREDERIC E. RISSER MiLO K. SWANTON CLARK WILKINSON Racine Madison Madison Baraboo Term Expires, 1969 E. DAVID CRONON MRS. ROBERT E. FRIEND MRS. HOWARD T. GREENE J. WARD RECTOR Madison Hartland Genesee Depot Milwaukee SCOTT M. CUTLIP ROBERT A. GEHRKE BEN GUTHRIE CLIFFORD D. SWANSON Madison Ripon Lac Du Flambeau Stevens Point W. NORMAN FITZGERALD JOHN C. GEILFUSS WARREN D. LEARY, JR. Milwaukee Milwaukee Rice Lake Term Expires, 1970 THOMAS H. BARLAND MRS. EDWARD C. JONES HOWARD W. MEAD DONALD C. SLIGHTER Eau Claire Fort Atkinson Madison Milwaukee JIM DAN HILL MRS.
    [Show full text]
  • Facts and Figures About Michigan and Year Book for 1886; a Hand
    Class Book COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT PRICE, 15 CENTS. FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT Michigan AND YEAR BOOK FOR 1886 INDEX ON, PAGE 86. Copyright, 1886, by Frank J. Bramhall. ThE»DeTI(0IT'^AP1ITAI(IUB| IS DESIGNED FOR THE PURPOSE OF Provldihg Patients and Invalids with all the comforts and advantages c* a first-class Health Resort. It is a large and commodious building surrounded by EXTENSIVE AND BEAUTIFUL GROUNDS ® ^ PATIENTS REQUIRING Special Medi8al©pSMFgiGaI5FFeatimenfc OK DESIRING Suitable accommodation while consulting some of the many eminent Prac- titioners of this city, will find in the Sanitarium all the comforts and conveniences of a home. THE * SANITARIUM Has recently been remodeled and enlarged to double its former capacity It is elegantly furnished throughout and provided with the most compljBte Arrangements for Turkish •:• Russian •>Yap()r •> and •> E]ectric-> Baths AND FOR ALL VARIETIES OF KLECTRICAL TRKA^rivIENT. A RESIDENT PHYSICIAN AND TRAINED NURSES ARE ALWAYS IN ATTENDANCE. No effort is being spared to make the Sanitarium the leading Medical Institution of its kind in the West, and its widespread and increasing popu- larity, both with the public and Medical Profession, is in itself an adequate testimony to its efficiency and usefulness. For terms and other particulars address THE DETROIT SANITARIUM, 260 Fort Street W., Detroit, Mich. FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT MiCfflGAN YEAR BOOK FOR 1886 jit.PL JRlbU 5llnjn^^ A HAND-BOOK OF THE STATE S' FRANK Xj BRAMHALL General Passenger DEPABTidENT Michigan Central. CHICAGO, leae. (copyrighted.) F. I. WHITNEY. O. W. RUGGLES, Ass't Gen'l Pass, and Ticket Agent. Gen'l Pass, and Ticket Agent.
    [Show full text]
  • INDEPENDENT MOVEMENTS in POST-RECONSTRUCTION POLITICS Volume II
    TRIUMPH OF THE NEW SOUTH: INDEPENDENT MOVEMENTS IN POST-RECONSTRUCTION POLITICS Volume II Brooks Miles Barnes Onancock, Virginia B.A., University of Virginia, 1972 M.A., University of Virginia, 1973 A Dissertation Presented to the Graduate Faculty of the University of Virginia in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Corcoran Department of History University of Virginia May, 1991 MISSISSIPPI The final years of Reconstruction in Mississippi saw both Republicans and Democrats abandon their efforts to attract the politically undecided. Instead, they began to cultivate the party faithful--the Republicans the black majority, the Democrats the white minority. Burdened by the heavy taxes levied by the Radical regime and disgusted by its incompetence and corruption, the Democrats resolved in 1875 to redeem the state by fair means or foul. They drew the color line, imposed strict discipline in their ranks, and used persuasion, intimidation, and violence to cow Republicans both black and white. l l William C. Harris, The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979), pp. 617-618, 626-627; J. Mills Thornton III, "Fiscal Policy and the Failure of Radical Reconstruction in the Lower South," in Region, Race, and Reconstruction: Essays in Honor of C, Vann Woodward, ed. J. Morgan Kousser and James M. McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 351, 371, 384; Euline W. Brock, "Thomas W. Cardozo: Fallible Black Reconstruction Leader," Journal of Southern History XLVII (1981), pp. 183-206; Michael Perman, The Road to Redemption: Southern Politics, 1869- 1..81..a. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984), pp.
    [Show full text]
  • Illustrating the Civil War WILLIAM FLETCHER THOMPSON, JR
    al^Uv .'. ''W; >.'1'. n.vT^'l .'./ •'""^^'': ' ;st^ll^)^4';'''V"V K'^^VM^ Wisconsin Magazine i of History Was McCarthy A Political Heir of La Follette? DAVID A. SHANNON Illustrating the Civil War WILLIAM FLETCHER THOMPSON, JR. Visions of Metropolis: William Gilpin's Theories CHARLES N. GLAAB William F. Vilas As A Businessman ROY N. LOKKEN Annual Proceedings, 1960-1961 Published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin / Vol. XLV, No. 1 / Autumn, 1961 STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Director Officers WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE, President GEOHCE C. SELLERY, Honorary Vice-President JOHN C. GEILFUSS, First Vice-President GEOHGE HAMI'EL, JR., Treasurer E. E. HOMSTAD, Second Vice-President LESLIE H. FISHEL, JR., Secretary Board of Curators Ex-Officio GAYLORD NELSON, Governor of the State MRS. DENA A. SMITH, State Treasurer ROBERT C. ZIMMERMAN, Secretary of State CONRAD A. ELVEHJEM, President of the IJniversity ANGUS B. ROTHWELL, Superintendent of Public Instruction MRS. SILAS SPENGLER, President of the Women's Auxiliary Term Expires 1962 GEORGE BANTA, JR. HERBERT V. KOHLER WILLIAM ¥. STARK JOHN TORINUS Menasha Kohler Pewaukee Green Bay GEORGE HAMPEL, JR. ROBERT B. L. MURPHY STANLEY STONE CLARK WILKINSON Milwaukee Madison Milwaukee Baraboo SANFORD HERZOG GERTRUDE PUELICHER MILO K. SWANTON ANTHONY WISE Minocqua Milwaukee Madison Hayward Term Expires 1963 SCOTT CUTLIP MRS. ROBERT FRIEND JOHN C. GEILFUSS WILLIAM B. HESSELTINE Madison Hartland Milwaukee Madison W. NORMAN FITZGERALD EDWARD FROMM MRS. HOWARD T. GREENE JAMES RILEY Milwaukee Hamburg Genesee Depot Eau Claire J. F. FRIEDRICK ROBERT GEHRKE DR. GUNNAR GUNDERSEN CLIFFORD SWANSON Milwaukee Ripon La Crosse Stevens Point Term Expires 1964 THOMAS H.
    [Show full text]
  • Vilas Supplemental Research Funds Award – Current Vilas Research Professors Can Request Supplemental Funding
    The Truth About Vilas WELCOME! Take a handout, find a seat, and test your knowledge with the True or False quiz. 1 University of Wisconsin - Madison Symposium for Research Administrators University of Wisconsin-Madison September 13th, 2017 2 The Truth About Vilas John Varda, Managing Officer, RSP Non-Fed Post-Award Team and Angie Stenli, RSP Post-Award Accountant, Non-Fed Team 3 University of Wisconsin - Madison The Truth About Vilas The plan for today’s session • True/False Quiz • Introduction • Presentation: • Background about William F. Vilas and the Vilas Trust • Overview of the main Vilas award types • Vilas award timeline • Review the Quiz and Collect Questions • Q&A 4 University of Wisconsin - Madison Vilas Awards at UW-Madison Prestigious – The Vilas title is coveted and well known on campus. Generous – For fiscal year 2018, $6,876,878 provided for 170 projects. Multi-Faceted – Professorships, Scholarships, Fellowships, support to hire RAs and PAs, support for early and mid career investigators, support for hardships, and Vilas Research Professors receive retirement benefits and can apply for research supplements for specific projects. Quirky – no carry-over from one year to the next, some awards have certain salary limitations, in some cases fringe is covered but not posted to the award, one award has matching requirements. 5 University of Wisconsin - Madison William Freeman Vilas 1840-1908 Soldier, Statesman & Scholar Benefactor 1840-Born in Vermont 1851-Family settled in Madison, Wisconsin 1858-Graduated UW with Highest Honors 1860-Law Degree from Albany Law School 1860-Returned to Madison to practice law 1862-Volunteered for the Union 23rd Wisconsin Infantry under Ulysses S.
    [Show full text]
  • Vice Presidents of the United States Adlai E
    Vice Presidents of the United States Adlai E. Stevenson (1893-1897) Citation: Mark O. Hatfield, with the Senate Historical Office. Vice Presidents of the United States, 1789-1993 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997), pp. 279-284. Introduction by Mark O. Hatfield. "Has Mr. Cleveland yet consulted you to that extent?" Vice President Stevenson was once asked. "Not yet," he replied. "But, there are still a few weeks of my term remaining." In February 1900, the Chicago American ran a photograph of former Vice President Adlai Stevenson holding his new grandson, Adlai Ewing Stevenson II. That year the grandfather was again nominated to run for vice president on the Democratic ticket. A half century later, the grandson would run twice as the Democratic nominee for president and gain even greater national and international prominence. Yet it was the grandfather who came closest to becoming president of the United States—when President Grover Cleveland underwent critical surgery.1 Youth The Stevenson family were Presbyterians from Northern Ireland who migrated first to Pennsylvania and then to North Carolina and Kentucky. Adlai E. Stevenson, son of John Turner Stevenson and Eliza Ewing Stevenson, was born on the family farm in Christian County, Kentucky, on October 23, 1835. He attended the common school in Blue Water, Kentucky, presided over by a "dreaded schoolmaster," Mr. Caskie. Years later, when as vice- presidential candidate Stevenson was about to speak at a barbecue in Kentucky, the elderly schoolmaster approached the platform and inquired, "Adlai, I came twenty miles to hear you speak; don't you remember me?" Stevenson instantly replied, "Yes, Mr.
    [Show full text]
  • Grover Cleveland Papers
    Grover Cleveland Papers A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. 2007 Revised 2010 April Contact information: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.contact Additional search options available at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008094 LC Online Catalog record: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm79016188 Prepared by Wilhelmina Curry, David Mathisen, and Nan Thompson Ernst Revised and expanded by Karen Linn Femia with the assistance of Brian McGuire and Nicholas Newlin Collection Summary Title: Grover Cleveland Papers Span Dates: 1743-1945 Bulk Dates: (bulk 1885-1908) ID No.: MSS16188 Creator: Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Extent: 108,200 items ; 627 containers plus 1 oversize ; 235.8 linear feet ; 164 microfilm reels Language: Collection material in English Location: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Summary: President of the United States, governor of New York, and lawyer. Correspondence, diaries, messages to Congress, speeches, writings, printed matter, and other papers primarily relating to the Cleveland presidency and presidential campaigns. Selected Search Terms The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Library's online catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein. People Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902--Correspondence. Arthur, Chester Alan, 1829-1886--Correspondence. Bayard, Thomas F. (Thomas Francis), 1828-1898--Correspondence. Benedict, Erastus Cornelius, 1800-1880--Correspondence. Bissell, Wilson Shannon, 1847-1903--Correspondence. Carlisle, John Griffin, 1835-1910--Correspondence. Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917--Correspondence. Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908.
    [Show full text]
  • Vermont History Or to Her Separate Communities Or Public Men
    PROCEEDINGS OF THE VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEARS JOM.HH4 '* Copyrighted by /*// The Vermont Historical Society 1915 T TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Portrait of Redfleld Proctor Frontispiece Constitution 5 Officers of the Society, 1914-15 9 Active Members 12 Corresponding Members 23 Honorary Members 23 Proceedings of Meeting Oct. 14, 1913 27 Oct. 20, 1914 30 Jan. 19, 1915 33 Jan. 20, 1915 37 Librarian's Report, 1913 41 1914 44 Treasurer's Report, 1913 53 1914 55 Public Address on Redfield Proctor, Jan. 19, 1915 57 Speech of Redfield Proctor on Cuba 105 Otter Creek in History 125 One Thousand Men 149 Index 277 Unveiling of Daniel P. Thompson Tablet 293 Constitution of the Vermont Historical Society Constitution ARTICLE I. This association shall be called "The Vermont His- torical Society," and shall consist of Active, Correspond- ing, and Honorary Members. ARTICLE n. The object of the Society shall be to discover, collect, and preserve whatever relates to the material, agricultural, industrial, civil, political, literary, ecclesiastical and military history of the State of Vermont. ARTICLE III. The officers of the Society, who shall constitute its Board of Managers, to be elected annually and by ballot, shall be a President, three Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, two Corresponding Secretaries of foreign and domestic correspondence, a Librarian and a Cabinet- Keeper, a Treasurer, and a Curator from each county in this State. ARTICLE IV. There shall be one annual, and occasional meetings of the Society. The annual meeting for the election of of- ficers shall be at Montpelier on Tuesday preceding the third Wednesday of January; the special meetings shall be at such time and place as the Board of Managers shall de- termine.
    [Show full text]
  • University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan COPYRIGHT BY
    This dissertation has been 65-1249 microfilmed exactly as received LEACH, Duane Marshall, 1935- THE TARIFE AND THE WESTERN FARMER: 1860-1890. The University of Oklahoma, Ph. D., 1965 History, general University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan COPYRIGHT BY DUANE MARSHALL LEACH 1965 THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA > GRADUATE COLLEGE THE TARIFF AND THE WESTERN FARMER: 1860-1890 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE FACULTY in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY BY DUANE MARSHALL lEACH Norman, Oklahoma 1964 THE TARIFF AND THE WESTERN FARMER: 1860-1890 BY (2- DISSERTATION COMMITTEE ACKNOWI£DGHENTS The author wishes to acknowledge the unstinting encouragement and guidance given by his major professor. Dr. Qllbez^ C. Fite, Research Professor. A vote of thanks goes also to Professors ¥. Eugene Hollon, Rufus G. Hall, Max L. Moorhead, and Alfred B. Sears, not only for reading this manuscript, but also for their help and encouragement throughout my graduate study. I must also thank the Manu­ scripts Division of the Library of Congress, The Iowa State Department of History and Archives, and the Minnesota State Historical Society. Special thanks are due Miss Ruth Sutch of the Cambria Public Library who provided me with materials of Inestimable value. The author Is also deeply Indebted to Miss Opal Carr and Mrs. Inna Tomberlln without whose help this manuscript could not have been completed. Ill TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter I. THE BACKDROP ............. 1 II. THE FARM DILEMMA: PROSPERITY AND PANIC. 38 III. THE TARIFF COMMISSION AND THE DEFEAT OF REFORM .................................... 91 IV. THE CAMPAIGN OF 1884 ....................
    [Show full text]