Lewis McLouth joined the teaching faculty at the Michigan State Normal School (now Eastern Michigan University) in 1869 where he taught for sixteen years in the department of physics and chemistry. In 1885, he left the Normal School to join the faculty at the Michigan State Agriculture College (now Michigan State University) where he taught mechanics and astronomy. The materials in the Lewis McLouth family collection include a protrait of McLouth and his wife Sarah Doty McLouth as well as a gift given to McLouth by his studens in the geology department when he left to join the teaching faculty at the Michigan State Agriculture School. There are no other materials related to McLouth's time in the classroom or on the campus of the Michigan State Normal School in the collection.