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COLLECTION SUMMARY
Title:
H.L. Loucks correspondence with R.F. Pettigrew collection
Dates:
1914-1916
Creator:
H. L. (Henry Langford) Loucks
Physical Description:
0.42 linear feet—1 container
Collection number:
MA 23
Language:
Collection material in English, German, and Spanish.
Repository:
South Dakota State University Archives, Hilton M. Briggs
Library, South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D.
Abstract:
Collection
is composed of correspondence between Henry L. Loucks and Richard F.
Pettigrew during 1914-1916. The content is mainly political in nature,
dealing with issues of the progressive movement in the United States in
the early 1900s.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Provenance:
This collection was donated by George L. Brown, Louck's grandson, in
February 1998.
Access Restrictions:
This collection is open to research without restriction.
Items in this collection do not
circulate and may be used in-house only.
Copyright Status:
Copyright 2008 by South Dakota State University and SDSU Archives.
Please credit the SDSU Archives if you copy or reproduce material from
this finding aid.
It is the responsibility of anyone reproducing material
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before 1997, may not have complete information on file. (Revised 15 SEP
2003)
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item]. H.L. Loucks correspondence with R.F.
Pettigrew collection, MA 23, South Dakota State University Archives,
South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D.
Processing Information:
This collection was processed by Crystal J. Gamradt on November 19,
1998 with revisions on July 8, 2008 (cjg).
SELECTED SEARCH TERMS
The following terms have
been used to index the description of this collection in the
subject guide.
They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or
location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically therein.
Persons:
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Loucks, Henry Langford, 1846-1928.
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Pettigrew, Richard F. (Richard Franklin), 1848-1926.
Subjects:
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Agriculture and politics.
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Dakota Ruralist.
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Progressive Party (Founded 1912)
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Progressivism (United States politics)
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South Dakota—Politics and government.
BACKGROUND NOTE
Henry Langford Loucks was born at Hull, Ontario, Canada,
May 24, 1846 to William J. and Anna (York) Loucks. He was educated in
the Canadian common schools. He married Florence Isabel McCraney at
Oakville, Ontario, Canada, May 22, 1878. They had seven children, four
of whom grew to maturity: Perry, Anna, Elizabeth, and Daniel. Loucks
came to the United States and conducted a mercantile business in
Michigan and later in Missouri. In 1884, he settled on a government
homestead in Deuel County, Dakota Territory, near Clear Lake (S.D.).
His settlement came as the great boom was subsiding. He experienced
almost at once the hardships which were common to the farmers of the
region and he took up their cause by organizing a "farmer's club" which
soon became the Territorial Alliance. In 1885, this group affiliated
with the National Farmer's Alliance. Loucks became the leader and
president of the Territorial Alliance and assisted in organizing a
number of cooperative business ventures, including fire and hail
insurance and merchandising. He also established the Dakota Ruralist as
the exponent of his economic views and published it for nearly twenty
years.
At first, he and his associates, who generally affiliated
with the Republican Party, hoped to accomplish their objectives through
the existing parties. But in 1890, at a joint convention of the Knights
of Labor and the state Farmers' Alliance, of which he was then
president, Loucks was named as candidate for governor. He was defeated,
but succeeded in consolidating a large section of the farmers into a
separate political party in 1891, at first known as the Independent,
later identified with the People's of Populist Party. In 1892, he
presided over the first Populist Party national convention. In the same
year he was elected president of the National Farmers' Alliance and
Industrial Union. He fought for the adoption of the initiative and
referendum in South Dakota in 1898 and its success was conceded to have
resulted from his efforts.
Loucks published several works, the titles of which
indicate the direction of this thought. Some of the titles include:
The New Monetary System (1893); Government Ownership of Railroad and
Telegraphs (1894); and the Great Conspiracy of the House of Morgan and
How to Defeat It (1916).
While his home for many years was Watertown, South
Dakota, his death occurred at Clear Lake, South Dakota, December 29,
1928.
Richard F. Pettigrew was a Delegate from the Territory of
Dakota and a Senator from South Dakota. Born in Ludlow, Windsor County,
Vt., July 23, 1848, he moved with his parents to Wisconsin in 1854. He
attended the public schools and Evansville Academy, Evansville, Wis. and
entered Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., in 1864. He spent one year
teaching school and studying law in Iowa and entered the law department
of the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1867.
He went to Dakota in 1869 in the employ of a United
States deputy surveyor. He settled in Sioux Falls and was admitted to
the bar about 1871. Pettigrew practiced law, and engaged in surveying
and the real estate business.
He was a member of the Territorial House of
Representatives 1872 and served in the Territorial council 1877 and
1879. He was elected as a Republican Delegate to the Forty-seventh
Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883). He was an unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1882 to the Forty-eighth Congress. He was a member of
the Territorial council 1885.
Upon the admission of South Dakota as a State into the
Union was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1889
and reelected in 1895 and served from November 2, 1889, to March 3,
1901.
Pettigrew left the Republican party on June 17, 1896, to
join the Silver Republicans. He was an unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1900. He served as chairman of the Committee on Indian
Affairs (Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses).
He engaged in the practice of law in New York City and
returned to Sioux Falls where he was active in politics and business
until his death in that city October 5, 1926
Bibliography:
Addresses,
[Watertown?, S.D. : s.n., between 1910 and 1930]. [SD Collection: S561.5
.L68]
Government ownership of railroads and telegraph, as
advocated by the National Farmers' Alliance and industrial union,
Huron, S.D. : s.n., 1893. [Books/Upper Level: HE1081.L6]
The great conspiracy of the house of Morgan and how to
defeat it,
[Watertown, S.D. : H. L. Loucks] c1916. [Books/Upper Level: HG2481.L6g]
The great conspiracy of the house of Morgan exposed and
how to defeat it,
[Watertown, S.D. : The Author], c1916. [Books/Upper Level: HG2481.L6g2]
How to restore and maintain our government bonds at par,
[Watertown, S.D. : The Author], c1921. [Books/Upper Level: HJ8117.L84]
The mythical gold base : or, Standard of the Federal
Reserve System compared with our farmers land loan and sub-treasury plan, [Watertown, S.D. :
American Honest Money League, 1922]. [SD Collection: HG2565.L6]
The new monetary system as advocated by the National
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union,
[Aberdeen, S.D.], Ruralist Quarterly, 1895. [Books/Upper Level: HG529.L6
1895]
"Our daily bread" must be freed from the greed of private
monopoly, [Watertown, S.D. :
The Author] c1919. [Books/Upper Level: HD9036.L7]
Related Material:
Guarnieri, Thom, H. L. Loucks and the Dakota Ruralist:
voices of reform, Thesis (M.S.)—Journalism and Mass Communications
Dept., South Dakota State University, 1981. [Archives: LB2385.G932]
South Dakota Farmers’ Alliance Records,
South Dakota State University Archives, South Dakota State University,
Brookings, S.D. [Archives: MA 11]
SCOPE and CONTENTS NOTE
This collection is composed of correspondence between
Henry Langford Loucks and Richard F. Pettigrew during the years
1914-1916. The content of the letters is mainly political in nature,
dealing with issues of the progressive movement in the United States in
the early 1900's.
ARRANGEMENT of the RECORDS
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order and there under
chronologically.
Box 1.
|
Folder |
Description |
Dates |
|
1 |
Correspondence: H. L. Loucks to R. F. Pettigrew |
1914
November |
|
2 |
Correspondence: H. L. Loucks to R. F. Pettigrew |
1915
January-December |
|
3 |
Correspondence: H. L. Loucks to R. F. Pettigrew |
1916
January-July |
|
4 |
Correspondence: R. F. Pettigrew to H. L. Loucks |
[n.d.] |
|
5 |
Correspondence: R. F. Pettigrew to H. L. Loucks |
1914
November |
|
6 |
Correspondence: R. F. Pettigrew to H. L. Loucks |
1915
March-November |
|
7 |
Correspondence: R. F. Pettigrew to H. L. Loucks |
1916
February-May |
|
8 |
Photocopies of photographs |
[n.d.] |
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