Correspondents include government personnel, industrialists, educators, old army friends, and 4-H Club members. Magazine articles, news copy, annotated news releases, working noted and notebooks make up the remainder of the collection. There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law. Lewis C. French was born in 1893 in Naperville, Illinois. For thirty-four years he was farm editor of one of the leading daily newspapers in the agricultural state of Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Journal .
Club work and marketing co-operatives.
When tobacco prices hit new lows, French helped form the Wisconsin Tobacco Pool. He also developed the Rock County show herds, forerunner of the state show herds. During these years the excellence of his work earned many awards for the newspaper as well as for himself. Lewis C. French died on December 18, 1960. Presented by Mrs. Lewis C. French, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 4, 1961.