Columbia Manuscript Collections

The collection contains an account of the Battle of Centralia, 1862, with reminiscences of Edgar B. Rodemyer, then editor of the CENTRALIA FIRESIDE GUARD and of Frank James thirty years after the incident.

The collection contains correspondence of a Mexico, MO, fire brick manufacturer with Forrest C. Donnell, Hugh Stephens, vice-chairman of Missouri State Council of Defense, and Keith Martin, discussing industrial camouflage program of Missouri Council of Defense. Green resigned from the Council shortly after his appointment.

The collection contains newspaper clippings and miscellaneous papers about the Isherwood and Coons families of Missouri.

Daybook of a general store in Spring Hill, MO, listing names of customers, items purchased, and their prices.

Correspondence, reports, and financial material of the Dunksburg, Missouri, chapter of Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal beneficiary insurance society founded in 1883. Record books have been microfilmed.

Scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, magazine articles, and letters regarding the wholesale grocery business, philosophical lectures, theater programs, and other matters.

Correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, family history, reprints, and microscope slides of a physician, professor of physiology, inventor, and pioneer researcher in the field of vascular surgery with Alexis Carrel.

Correspondence of economist and professor of economics at the University of Missouri in Columbia who supported the theories of Henry George and was an advocate of land value taxation. Also included are some of Brown’s papers from his time as chairman of the Department of Economics in the 1930s.

Records of the school from the formative years, including financial, student, political, and executive papers. Also contains papers documenting the school's relationship with the U.S. Public Works Administration and U.S. Work Projects Administration.

The papers of a Columbia, Missouri, organization which advocated prison reform and prisoner rights and sought to educate the public on prison conditions. Includes correspondence of the project and from inmates in Missouri prisons and subject files on prisons, prisoners, and the criminal justice system. See also collection 2636.

Correspondence, minutes, and other material of the Inaugural Steering Committee and subcommittees for the inauguration of Weaver as president of the University of Missouri. Invitation lists, replies, and regrets. Printed material on the inaugurations of Stratton D. Brooks in 1923 and A. Ross Hill in 1908.

Miscellaneous papers of the Weber family of Farmington, MO, including copy book of Frank S. Weber, obituary of Kossuth W. Weber, and correspondence and newspaper clippings of Nan Gardiner Weber. Genealogy and family photographs.

Materials on the procedures of organizing a merit system administration within a state; general instructions, lesson outlines, examination questions, and selected bibliography for an institute for training in municipal personnel administration.

Information circulars stating needs of the government for wartime personnel, and giving qualifications required.

Miscellaneous early record books of the University of Missouri, including accounts kept by the treasurer of the Board of Curators of salaries and expenditures, records pertaining to agricultural experiment station, inventory and appraisement of university holdings, and material on Students Protective Association and memorial union and stadium campaign.

Miscellaneous campaign materials, newspaper clippings and county returns pertaining to the Missouri Democratic primary election in August 1940, and the state election of November 1940, in which Brown carried every county in the state and over 99 per cent of the voting precincts to be reelected secretary of state.

Kate O’Hare’s letters to her family, April 20, 1919, to April 8, 1920, published in newspapers, and reproduced in book form April 14, 1920. O’Hare, a Socialist reformer, wrote the letters from the Missouri State Penitentiary, where she served a 14-month term for opposing the draft for World War I. They acknowledge gifts and letters, and discuss the Socialist movement, diseases, prison food, heat and ventilation, and mental disturbances of inmates.

The papers contain correspondence and miscellaneous reprints of a biochemist of the University of Missouri Medical School, whose fields of research included nutrition and metabolism of germ-free vertebrates, folic acid and related compounds in chick nutrition, and nutrition of zoo animals.

Correspondence, minutes of meetings, programs, committee and officers reports, pamphlets and published volumes of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. Correspondence covers years 1940-1944. The bulk of the collection covers years 1940-1968.

Correspondence, speeches, articles, and photographs pertaining to farm management and rural appraisal.

Records relating to Dean Roscoe L. Pullen's role in the passage of U.S. Public Law 835, which provided for federal aid for research in crippling and killing diseases, and his initial steps to procure a grant under this act for a clinical research unit.

Brief history of the Young, Croft and Scouller families. Two letters of millwright Andrew Young, Rockbridge County, VA, to John Scouller, 1793-1794. Miscellaneous letters containing family genealogy. Scrapbook containing news clippings and genealogical notes on the Croft family.

Account of a journey from Hoboken, NJ, to Wimborne, England, in June 1944 on the troop ship LOUIS PASTEUR. Describes discomforts and crowded conditions of ocean voyage.

Letters written from Ohio and Kentucky telling whereabouts and livelihoods of relatives, family deaths, prices, crops, sickness, and Daniel Boone history.

Brief history of church and program listing events of sesquicentennial celebration.

Originals and typed copies of letters of the Macfarlane family of Stewarton, Scotland, to George Macfarlane in Callaway County, MO. Letters tell of family and local news, reform movement and changes in Stewarton.

Letters received by the John A. Beauchamp family of Liberty, MO, from relatives in Tennessee, Louisiana, and southeastern Texas discussing family news, prices, business prospects and post-Civil War conditions.

Botany lecture notes, in German, taken by Kern at the University of Tubingen in the classes of Hugo Mohl and Dr. Maerklin. Kern was later on the botany faculty of the University of Missouri.

Papers of the second person to receive a degree in agricultural engineering from the University of Missouri, who for thirty-six years served as a Presbyterian lay missionary in India.

Biographical material, index to publications, correspondence, articles, research materials, and miscellaneous pamphlets.

Correspondence, reports, case records, judicial opinions, speeches, articles, news clippings, pamphlets and books covering Atwood's professional and political careers and his work as an active layman in the Southern Baptist Church.

Correspondence, editorials, news clippings, pamphlets, photographs, and scrapbooks dealing with Brewer's activities as publisher of the NEW BEDFORD STANDARD-TIMES, his philanthropic work, and his political interests.

Genealogy of three generations of the Clemens family, starting with John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, Samuel Clemens' parents. Also a brief biography of Mark Twain, and descriptions of Florida, Missouri, and Mark Twain State Park.

Correspondence, memorandums of allowances, and examiner's reports of the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway and the Missouri Pacific Railway. Names connecting subsidiary lines, lists of Industrial Railroads connecting with the Missouri Pacific Railway and information from examiners reports concerning relations with carriers.

Civil War correspondence of O.A. Williams, Confederate army surgeon, and his friends and relatives, containing a mixture of family matters and local news.

Correspondence regarding sale of Harris Mineral Springs and advertising the Erie Medical Company.

Copy of page from the Chouteau Family Bible. Names listed are Francois Chouteau, Therese Birenica Chouteau, Edmund Francois H. Chouteau, Pierre Menard Chouteau, Louis Sylvestre Chouteau, Benjamin Chouteau, Frederick D. Chouteau, Benedict Pharamon Chouteau, and Mary Brigite Chouteau. Gives place and date of birth and date of death.

Copies of the farm advisor law and the nursery inspection law; list of donors contributing to the portrait of Henry J. Waters presented to the agriculture library, 1926; remarks of speakers at the presentation; newspaper clippings and photograph of the portrait.

Affidavit recommending Hieatt as worthy of all confidence, signed by several citizens of his area; and a photo of Hieatt with his fifth wife, Elizabeth Breckenridge.

The papers of the Putnam County Teacher's Institute contain copies of a contract for the building of a school building at St. John, MO, 1855; blocks 1 and 2, Elson's addition to the town of Unionville, MO, n.d.; and programs of the Putnam County Teachers Institute, 1871, 1873, 1880.

Letters with biographical information on J.J.S. Ruffieux, who founded a boy's school near St. Louis. Also a typed cover letter translating and explaining the two letters.

Receipted bill from Dayton and Arthur, Booksellers and Stationers, Quincy, IL.

The collection contains letters written to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ross and F. Gail Ross in Pennsylvania from relatives in Nebraska.

The collection contains warrants issued for payment of attendance and travel allowances.

The collection contains typed copies of a letter from John B. Treat to Henry Dearborn, 1805, describing Arkansas, the fur trade, Indian trouble, climate, population, and industry of the area; and an nspection report written by C. Groghan from Jefferson Barracks, September 1827.

Extracts from the journals of the Crump and Dupuy families. Includes family record of Crump family, and sale bill of their belongings with list of items and amounts paid for each.

The papers of Henry E. Parberry contain copies of a receipt for sale of an enslaved woman and child to James Parberry, 1829; Civil War letters concerning conditions in prison camps in New York and Maryland; and other miscellaneous letters and letter fragments.

The collection contains a facsimile of the Geyer Act, 11 April 1839.

The collection contains a family genealogy compiled for the West View School homecoming. Fulks, Newkirk, Thixton, Bowen, Hays, Loganbill, Lehman, Grinstead, Welty, Schaffter, Baxter, Kasper, Ratzliff, and Foley family histories in Moniteau County, MO are included.

The collection contains a letter to his mother, Mrs. A.V. Closson, Salt Lake City, UT, from Laredo, TX, Oct. 22, 1916, written while in the armed services during World War I.

The collection contains an invitation to ceremonies marking the dedication of the Thomas Sappington house as an historic landmark.

Legal documents, political correspondence, receipts for services, and real estate transactions of James Miller, the estate of William Miller, and J. Porter English.

Miscellaneous documents and notes, largely concerning real estate transactions, licensing of lawyers and preachers, indentures, government appointments, and elections, and railroad charters. Arranged chronologically.

Letters written by a 1st Lieutenant to his family during World War I, most of which were published in the SEDALIA DEMOCRAT; typewritten descriptions of some incidents occurring during his training period, and later in France; two copies of the STARS AND STRIPES.

Blank stock certificate in the South Branch of the railroad.

Copy of page from the ledger of a general store, covering William F. Windsor's account for July-October, 1864.

Letter to Edward Seymour, New York, NY, from Conant, St. Louis, concerning photographs of pottery found in Missouri Indian mounds. Engravings of the photographs enclosed with letter.

The collection consists of interviews with guests on the Our Missouri Podcast. The collection includes digitally recorded interviews and transcripts of the interviews.

Miscellaneous deeds, accounts, letters, and notes of Abraham Bird, Abraham Hunter, and others, largely concerning transfers of real estate in Cape Girardeau County.

Special order from Office of the Provost Marshal General, Department of the Missouri, paroling Richard B. Keeble, and special order from the Adjutant General's Office, State of Missouri, calling George C. Gaddy's Company, Enrolled Missouri Militia, into active service.

Correspondence and military papers of William M. Houston and William McIlrath, provost marshals of Monroe County, MO.

Research notes and typed drafts of histories of many of Centralia's clubs, businesses, institutions, and prominent citizens, compiled for the city's centennial celebration in 1957.

Autograph and typed manuscripts of autobiography, and revision.

The papers of Charles Orrin Ransford contain three articles written by Ransford concerning Methodist churches in Wentzville, MO.

The collection contains a paper describing the escape of John Reid Jones, a Confederate soldier who fought in the battle of Pea Ridge and had come home on leave. He escaped being captured by General Lane by digging a camouflaged pit to hide in.

The collection contains an account of the Newkirk family who moved from Mexico, MO, to the Sacramento River in California in 1862, and eighteen years later moved from Scott's Valley, CA, to Dayton, WA.

The collection contains an account of pioneer life in Dallas and Polk Counties, MO.

The collection contains a typed copy of a personal account book of James Powell of Atlanta, MO.

The collection contains a typed copy of Eugene Field's first verse, autographed by Field; a New Year's Eve card to Mrs. Sampson from J. Mansell; a valentine to Frank from unknown; and miscellaneous poems and book of verses by Eugene Field.

The collection contains a supplement to "St. Paul's and St. Matthew's," a history of the parish. Supplement covers period 1959-1960.

The collection contains a typed copy of the original survey of St. John, MO, giving owners of each lot; also plat map naming owners of outlying farms.

The collection contains a program of the council and membership meeting of the Friends of the University of Missouri Library, including minutes of the annual meeting.

The papers of the Columbia Council of the Boy Scouts of America contain correspondence, lists of members, a songsheet, and the constitution and by-laws.

Letters regarding invitations to meetings, dedications of buildings or new lodges, protocol, rules of order, and general business of the Oddfellows.

Letters of the James H. Middleton family regarding the history and genealogy of the Middleton, Williams, and Evans families.

To Thomas A. Brady, Columbia, MO, from Columbia, MO, June 27, 1960. Gives the university library committee authorization to change the library's classification system from Dewey Decimal to Library of Congress.

Summons for Samuel Hinch to testify in the case of Henry and William Hand, defendants, vs. John H. Wright, plaintiff.

Missouri-themed poems written by Corinne Gould Chamberlain.

Informational brochure published by the Chamber of Commerce, Trenton, MO, with a map of the town, and a list of churches and other organizations.

Plans, elevations, and sections of the administration and education buildings, chapel, auditorium-gymnasium, dining hall, kitchen, warehouse, vocational training and industry buildings, fire house, garage, and maintenance shop.

To Mr. Mudd, from Spring Lake Beach, NJ, Aug. 17, 1907. Regards the military campaigns of Thomas Jackson during the Civil War.

The collection contains an indenture signed by G.D. Ferris, Mexico, MO, giving J.C. Huff and G.L. Ferris the right to manufacture a threshing machine for which he holds the patent. Letterhead shows Jefferson Street, Mexico, MO.

Copies of "Wash Day," a receipt for washing clothes given a young bride in Tennessee ca. 1780; and of a sale bill from Kentucky.

The collection contains receipts for coffee and tea shipped from New York to Kansas City by the Commercial Fast Transportation Company.

The collection contains letters to his family and friends concerning family news; law practice; county court sessions; land speculation; service in the Mexican and Civil wars; national, state and local political campaigns; and financial difficulties during reconstruction.

The collection contains a historical compendium of the church published for its Diamond Jubilee celebration on 31 May 1970, a bulletin for the Jubilee Service of Song and Sermon, and the Covenant Service. A short history of the church, its pastors, long-time members, and building improvements are included.

Participant records, foreign visitor calendars, papers and correspondence relating to program arrangements, and miscellaneous materials collected by Joseph C. Caldwell while supervisor of foreign agricultural trainees and home staff coordinator for the International Cooperation Administration-Land Grant College System India contract.

Records of Missouri Confederate veterans, compiled for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Missouri Division, by local chapters. Records include four page record forms of biographical and historical data, arranged alphabetically by veteran's names; copies of rosters and muster rolls; and miscellaneous lists and records.

A flyer sent out to Republicans and Republican newspapers listing the national electoral and state Republican ticket.

The collection contains a letter to Captain Poillon, from Alexander Inness, Chicago, Apr. 26, 1865, concerning the Battle of Fort Blakely. Inness inquires about dead and wounded friends in the 68th Regiment, and mentions the death of President Lincoln.

The collection contains a document certifying that Arthur Wolcott holds one $50 share in the telegraph company.

The collection contains an extract of a letter to Gov. Fletcher, from St. Louis, MO, Jan. 12, 1864, concerning the movement to allow African American suffrage. Also included is a penciled note on the back of the letter relating to the Dyer resolution concerning a change in the basis of representation.

The collection contains a copy of a letter from Harrison, a Confederate officer, to his sister, from Springfield, MO, Aug. 12, 1861, concerning the Battle of Wilson's. Also included is a brief sketch of the Dyer family by Monroe F. Cockrell.

The collection contains pages from the records of a dealer in lumber and hardware in Lexington, MO, dealing with Albert Young's account.

Papers of John Boon; plat map and notes concerning Far West, MO; typed copies of evidence given in Joseph Smith's trial, and "Mormon Names in Caldwell County and Salt Lake," article written by Bertha Booth, n.d.

Two letters to a woman named Caroline, one from Francis M. Froth, the other from George Smith, both writing from Memphis, TN, and telling of army life and their hopes for the future.

Mortgage deed from Barbary A. Wheeler to J.M. McLemore, Greenfield, MO, 12 December 1888.

To R.H. Ewart, from Williamsport, PA, Apr. 21, 1889.

Blank form of oath of allegiance required of school directors.

Typewritten manuscript by Edward E. Wall about John Cleves Symmes; positive photostatic copy of "Supplement to the Western Spy," 6 November 1819; and three issues of THE SOUTHERN BIVOUAC, February-April, 1887, containing articles on Symmes.

Genealogical notes on the Evans and Middleton families of Missouri.