Columbia Manuscript Collections

Record book of court cases, containing synopsis of each case, listing witnesses, and giving the outcome.

Record of expenses incurred by the local directors. Receipts and expenditures.

"A Practical Treatise on Conveyancing," with notes by Mr. Preston, copied by Ira Newburn and Darlingon Durham. The book is indexed for law students, and includes a list of recommended reading.

Synopsis of letters written between 1848 and 1850 by Alexander M. Philpott, the editor's uncle. A.M. Philpott was a medical student in Jefferson City when he left for the gold fields. He died in Sacramento in 1850.

Cash book of a college in Glasgow, Missouri.

Records of Pritchett College and Morrison Observatory. Salary, endowment, tuition, and real estate records are included.

Articles of association; certificate of incorporation; charter granted by secretary of state of Missouri; by-laws; and reports of the president and treasurer and the director of Morrison Observatory, as incorporated in the minutes of the meetings of the board of trustees of the Pritchett School Institute (later Pritchett College) in Glasgow, MO.

Resident tax book of Cooper County, MO. Jno. H. Hutchison, collector; Robert P. Clark, clerk, county court.

Draper's notes and comments on his interviews of Nathan Boone, Daniel Boone's son. Recollections of Daniel Boone's life and of other pioneers in Kentucky and Missouri.

Papers of Arthur Galbraith (1909-1993), fiddler from southwestern Missouri who specialized in Ozark folk music. Includes publicity, concert programs, obituaries, correspondence, awards, and recordings of his music.

Account book of a Sunlight, Missouri, man. Farm and general accounts, 1879-1882, and merchandise and business accounts of the Enterprise Store, started by Ramsey in 1882.

Docket includes names of defendants and plaintiffs, nature of complaint, and synopsis of case. Some marriages recorded. Justices were P. Ewell, W. Berry, and W.L. Bransford.

Written for her son between May and August 1878, describing her travels from London to Chicago and return. Includes a daily log reading, description of the country from New York to Chicago, clippings, postcards, and photographs. The ocean voyage was made aboard the Steamer ALSATIA.

Includes account of real and personal property belonging to Mary Robards Richardson of Louisville, KY.

A transcription of a diary includes a memorandum by James H. Roberts setting down his reasons for leaving Barton County, MO.

Papers of Hamline E. Robinson, a Maryville, MO, book collector, consisting of a diary, a catalog of his occult library; and a volume that includes a "Sketch of the Life of Thomas Taylor, the Platonist" and a biographical account of Taylor's works.

The papers of Irene S. Taylor, a journalist from St. Joseph, Missouri, who worked for several news organizations in Paris, France, in the 1930s, consist of correspondence, photographs, and articles, and records from her service in the U.S. Army in the 1940s and 1950s.

Diaries; correspondence; newspaper clippings; article; poem and story manuscripts; publications; and miscellaneous papers of a Cleveland, Ohio, journalist and poet.

History notebook containing dates, facts, and biographical sketches. Rogers was president of Christian College, Columbia, MO, 1858-1877.

Personal journal containing remarks about weather, marriages and funerals performed by Rogers, and list of students enrolled in a Bible class. Rogers was president of Christian College, Columbia, MO, 1858-1877.

Establishment of U.S. Army troops at Ft. Leonard Wood, MO, as seen through the eyes of the county director of Pulaski County Social Security Assistance. Includes illustrations, diagrams and case histories of displaced persons.

List of taxable property within the District of St. Charles for assessment purposes.

Includes minutes of board meetings and names of resident taxpayers for the Oak Grove School District No. 7, Township 37, Range 24, St. Clair County, MO.

Teacher's daily register for Oak Grove School District No. 7, St. Clair County, MO. Also includes two pages of a daily record kept by J.P. Green, Kings Prairie School District No. 1, Dallas Township, St. Clair County, 1882.

Records of the Committee of Fifty, an organization formed to plan the 100th anniversary celebration of the Louisiana Purchase, to be held in St. Louis in 1904. Pierre Chouteau, descendant of Laclede Liquest, founder of St. Louis, began plans for the celebration in 1896. Meetings were held at the Missouri Historical Society. Also an envelope of loose papers.

Letters concerning the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railroad. R.L. Van Sant, assistant engineer. Largely illegible.

Record of accounts of a St. Louis, MO, iron and machine works.

Letters signed by G.H. Krutzsch, vice president, and W. Brock. Volumes are indexed. Vol. 1, 12 October 1896-13 August 1897. Vol. 2, 2 September 1897-29 January 1898.

Corporate records of the River Power and Transport Association, Wilmington, DE, 1927.

Appended to these records are the minutes of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis River Front Improvement Corporation, 1933.

Signatures of members and guests of a men's luncheon group loosely modeled after King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. Some correspondence, clippings, and miscellany.

Minutes, rules and regulations for the general government of the institution, expenses, pupils, tuition, accounts, and courses offered. The academy was established in 1818 and closed during the Civil War in 1862. Photostat copy and typed copy.

Includes apportionment and distribution of money, list of warrants drawn, trustees of school districts, and number of children.

Justice of the peace court docket, 1822-1825, and stray records, 1825-1838, for Ste. Genevieve County, MO.

Assessment of personal property and real estate for Ste. Genevieve Township, Ste. Genevieve County, MO, 1823.

Assessment of personal property and real estate for Saline County, MO, 1860.

Records consist of quarterly conference journals and reports; notes and minutes of church boards and committees; financial records; membership, baptismal, and marriage records; and records of Sunday school and social organizations.

Papers of a women's organization dedicated to providing the poor and unemployed with necessities if employment could not be found. This was accomplished in part through the donation of money to various St. Louis charities. The papers include correspondence, minutes of special and annual meetings, and treasurer's reports.

The collection contains a diary written in 1872 by Maggie Jenkins of Brookfield, Missouri, as well as letters from her sister, Carrie Kittinger of Buffalo, New York. Also includes a letter from Samuel Cherry to Maranda Haney, letters from Sarah A. Mason and members of the Myers family, and letters to William M. Jenkins from single women he contacted through magazines.

The collection contains the diaries of a Mound City, Missouri, farmer who sold his farm and moved to Corning, Kansas, in 1902. He sold his Kansas farm and moved to Macon, Missouri, in 1903. Diaries include cash accounts and memoranda for the ten-year period 1899-1908.

Volume 1: Articles of association and minutes, 1869-1890; "Life of Constantine," part 2, by John L. Robards. Volume 2: Account book of Hannibal Savings Bank, 1872-1878; "Life of Constantine," part 1, by John L. Robards, secretary of the bank.

The collection contains a tragedy in five acts written by a St. Louis lawyer, editor and publisher. Scharil was a member of the American Bar Association, editor and publisher of The American Banner, Union Banner, Mississippi Valley Farmer, Mississippi Sun, and other publications.

The collection contains a justice of the peace docket from Maidenkirk Township, Scotland County, Missouri. Includes names of defendants and plaintiffs and outcome of the cases. Some stray livestock records.

The collection contains a record book of a grocery company.

The records contain credit records of individuals and businesses in Sedalia. Includes newspaper clippings of business transactions or any items of information affecting the financial status of the businessmen.

The records contain minutes, roll of members and subscribers, constitution, and articles of association. Also some Pettis County historical data.

The collection contains a register of club visitors.

Compiled by Selby for the MacDougall-Lowe Post No. 20, American Legion, Kirksville, MO.

Typewritten poem.

"The Missourian" and other poems.

Association formed to raise $10,000 for monument at grave in Mount St. Mary's Cemetery, Carrolton, MO, of General James Shields, U.S. Senator from Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri. Also some loose papers.

History of the Press Association, 1867-1916.

Article published in the MISSOURI FARMER.

Daybook of a general store in Bloomington, Macon County, MO.

Miners' register including two sets of mining rules and regulations and the signatures of miners employed.

Includes accounts of W. Goforth.

Account books of an iron works.

Day book of an iron works.

Ledger of an iron works.

List and pictures of markers placed at historic sites in Greene County. Original at Springfield Public Library.

The records of the Bethel Baptist Church, founded in 1855, include a photocopy of the minute book, membership lists, church histories, and news clippings.

Correspondence, clippings, and obituaries of poet and educator John G. Neihardt. Additional materials pertaining to the Neihardt Foundation, Black Elk/Neihardt Park, Blair, Nebraska, and a stage performance of Black Elk Speaks. Enid Fink Neihardt childhood memoir and additional clippings about her and Hilda Neihardt's efforts to continue their father's and Black Elk's legacies.

The papers of Edward V. Long, a Democratic senator from Missouri, consist of correspondence, memos, and other material relating to Long's career in the U.S. Senate.

The papers of Ichord, a Democratic congressman from Missouri, consist of correspondence, committee files, legislative files, campaign files and related material.

Daybook of newspaper and printing business in Boonville, MO. Also, Switzler's personal expenditures.

A novel about a deaf man.

Notes on the geology and history of Missouri, which the compiler had planned to use in making an historical atlas.

Copy of a Civil War journal in the manuscript division of the New York Public Library. It was edited by Roy W. Irwin and published in the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, 51 (1956-1957).

Written ca. 1925, the manuscript covers the history of nursing and nursing education. First published by Missouri State Nurses' Association in 1926.

Minutes of meetings and miscellaneous papers.

List of members, constitution and bylaws, and minutes of meetings.

Proceedings of a committee formed for "the preparation and publication of a correct history of the part borne by Missourians in the Confederate Army." 

Letter book of receiver of lands.

An abstract of all the conveyances on record of the military lands in the state of Missouri giving township, range, section, warrant number, name of patentee, company and regiment, date of patents and to whom conveyed.

Prepared by the War Manpower Commission of the National Youth Administration, Kansas City, MO. History of the National Youth Administration in Missouri from 1935 to 1943.

Vol. 1 (Schedule 1) enumeration of free inhabitants giving age, sex, and place of birth.
Vol. 2 (Schedule 2-6) slave inhabitants, including age and sex; deaths in previous year, including age, place of birth, cause of death; agricultural production; industries; and social statistics, including schools, churches, libraries, value of real and personal property.

Copies of land grants, certificates and assignments for services in the War of 1812.

Written in Mexico, MO, and various locations in Illinois and Indiana about family and personal affairs; local people; religious activities; and her own writing efforts, some of which she sold to newspapers.

No information is available about the location of the original of the diary.

Accounts of a Glasgow, MO, merchant.

Accounts, 1829; marriages performed, 1831-1840, in Marion, Ralls, and Pike Counties, MO; and list of subscribers to school of William Hatch, Ralls County, 1865.

History of Missouri by an Independence, MO, newspaperman.

Copy of surveys of St. Louis, St. Charles, Ste. Genevieve, Mine a Breton, New Bourbon, Carondelet, and surrounding territories, copied from plat book in office of secretary of state of Missouri.

Account books of Forest City Furniture Company, Rockford, IL.

Constitution, minutes, committee reports and financial records of a group organized to buy lots and make and maintain improvements in the Westmount Addition of Columbia.

The William A. McCanse Papers consist of two items: an agreement for the “valuation and division…of negroes,” 1856, and a letter from Jeremiah McKanse, a former slave, of Olathe, Kansas, to William McCanse, 1868.

The John H. Pattrick Papers include photographs and miscellaneous material related to Pattrick's experiences while stationed in France during World War I, as well as correspondence and scrapbooks documenting his life and the lives of his family before and after the war. An extensive postcard and greeting card collection, which belonged to his daughter, is also included.

The records of the Evangelical Bethel Congregation consist of minutes of congregational meetings, church constitutions, membership lists, and other church records. Recorded primarily in German, an English translation of the records is included in the collection. These records are part of the German Heritage Archives.

Memoirs of boyhood spent in vicinity of Washington, MO.

Wagon master's record book containing printed rules, regulations, and instructions. Accounts for 1865 drive or merchandise train, including accounts of drivers, loading of wagons, list of expenses, and statement of profit.

Meeting held at the McDaniel schoolhouse, May 3, 1884, when an independent Baptist church was formed. List of members listed in the record book for the period between May 3, 1884, and 1897.

Records of the Cold Water Baptist Church, 1809-1819; Baptist Church of Christ Friends to Humanity, 1834-1838; and Salem Baptist Church, 1841-1871; all on Cold Water in St. Louis County, MO.

Brief history of early Baptist settlers in the area, organization of the first church, constitution, rules of decorum, and record of the proceedings of the church. Two copies.

Excerpt from church minute book showing Baptist opposition to Freemasonry. Church member excluded for joining a Masonic lodge.

Historical pageant written for the 150th anniversary of the founding of the first Baptist church in Missouri, Bethel Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau County. Also a printed program (4 pages).

Brief history of early Baptist settlers in the area, organization of the first church, constitution, rules of decorum, and record of the proceedings of the church. Church located in Cape Girardeau County, MO.

Excerpts of article appearing in the Versailles STATESMAN on the history and centennial celebration of the Bethlehem Church, Morgan County, MO.