Harris W. Soule Papers

Collection

Identifier: SpC MS 0797-sc

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The papers of an author living in Vermont and Maine. Included are correspondence, manuscripts of writings, source materials for his writings, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the wild lands of Maine and Soule's book, Northwoods Tales and Unusual Recipes. Included also are stories, poems, and art work by Margo Holden. Included also is an autobiography by Joe Giguere. Included also are papers of Ralph J. Sawyer of Bethel, Maine from the years 1919 to 1921. Included also are papers in support of the nomination of Lawrence A. Chatto for the 1965 Rockefeller Public Service Award in the category of Administration awarded by Princeton University.

Dates

Creation: 1919-1971

Creator

Soule, Harris W., 1900-1971 (Person)

Access Restrictions

No restrictions on access.

Selected digital access is available in the Selected Digital Content series [and/or] directly through Digital Commons (https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/spec_photos/)

Use Restrictions

Rights assessment remains the responsibility of the researcher. No known restrictions on publication. For information about the process and fees for obtaining higher resolution scans or another file format, contact Special Collections.

Biographical Note

Harris W. Soule was born in Fairfield, Vermont, on April 14, 1900. A graduate of the University of Vermont in 1922, Soule became Windsor County Agent in 1923 and County Agent Leader of the Vermont Extension Service in 1931. Appointed state director of the Production and Marketing Administration of the USDA in 1945, Soule resigned in 1948 to enter politics in an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for Congress. After serving as Vermont Development Director from 1949 to 1951, he rejoined the USDA and was Northeast Area Director of the Commodity Stabilization Service at his retirement in 1962. An avid outdoorsman all his life, Soule spent much of his time at his camp on Clayton Lake, Maine. Having written numerous outdoors articles for New England magazines and newspapers, he gathered together his recollections in Northwoods Tales and Unusual Recipes, which was published posthumously in 1971. Harris W. Soule died in Burlington, Vt., on September 26, 1971.

Biographical Note

Margo Holden lived at Clayton Lake, Maine. She and her husband Carl owned a camp which was near one owned by Harris Soule. She wrote articles about life in northern Maine and along the Allagash River.

Biographical Note

Joseph Giguere was a woodsman, guide, and trapper of the Allagash region.

Biographical Note

Ralph J. Sawyer was an employee of Brown Paper Company who built a camp around 1916 in Grafton Notch, Maine. He carried on a lengthy correspondence about an invention he dreamed up, a bottle which would fit inside a can to be used by salesmen to demonstrate to customers what was inside the can.

Extent

4 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of William H. Soule in 1973.

General

The researcher may also wish to consult: Harris W. Soule Papers, Burlington, Vermont and Clayton, Maine, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.