Beckwith, Albert Clayton. History of Walworth County, Wisconsin. Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Company, 1912.

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State School for the Deaf

In 1843 Increase A. Lapham, of Milwaukee, whose various services to science are not yet ungratefully forgotten, wrote to Moses McCure Strong, then president of the Territorial Council, asking him to lay before that body for its consideration and favorable action a draft of resolutions which, in effect, petitioned Congress for an appropriation of public land in aid of in-