1830s

Missouri. Auditor's Office Letterbook, 1831-1840 (C1168)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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The collection contains the letterbook of the auditor of public accounts for Missouri, 1831-1840, from the auditors E. Barcroft, Henry Shurlds, Peter G. Glover, and Hiram H. Baber.

Missouri 2nd Circuit Court Judgments, 1821-1863 (C1072)
0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Information pertaining to cases presented in the court, including the names of the parties involved; date of judgment; nature of action; amounts of debts, damages, and costs; and the manner of satisfaction. Cases are listed alphabetically, and chronologically within, for the most part.

Missouri Commissioners of State Capitol Papers, 1838 (C1484)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers consist of an authorization to pay G.A. Parsons $24.15 for hauling bricks from the penitentiary to the state house, and his receipt. Warrant authorization and receipt of John Withnell for a $300 partial payment for the capitol building contract.

Missouri. General Assembly, 10th Board of Commissioners to Select a Site for the University Minutes, 1839 (C1658)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Minutes, 6 May-22 June 1839. Organization of board, members, examination, description and evaluation of prospective sites: Boonville, Cooper County; Fayette, Howard County; Columbia, Boone County; Fulton, Callaway County; and Jefferson City, Cole County.

Missouri. General Assembly, 10th, House, Geyer Act, 1839 (C3148)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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

Missouri. General Assembly, 7th, Attendance and Travel Allowances, 1832-1833 (C3144)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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

Missouri. Militia, 26th Regiment Fine Assessment Book, 1824-1830 (C1174)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Annual records of the court for the assessment of fines for the Missouri Militia, 26th Regiment. Also contains a membership list of the Magnolia Literary Society, 1874, and recipes.

Frederick W. Moody Collection, 1838-1869 (K0347)
0.01 c.f.

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The collection contains the memoir of Frederick W. Moody. The memoir contains stories regarding his immigration to the United States from England in 1857, his travels to New Mexico, Colorado, and early life in Kansas City and Westport.

Morris Family Papers, 1837-1943 (R0390)
(1 folder)

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These are promissory notes, land papers, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers of the Morris family of Greene and Webster Counties in Missouri.

Lynn Morrow Papers, 1804-2015 (R1000)
24 cubic feet (1051 folders, 5 oversize folders, 11,170 photographs, 852 negatives)

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The Lynn Morrow papers contain correspondence and research papers, with an additional significant collection of late twentieth-century promotional and advertising items. The papers reflect major areas of Morrow’s research on the southwest Missouri region; Iron, Shannon, and Washington counties; Theodore Pease Russell and his writings; and the writings of Silas C. Turnbo. The collection also includes a large selection of promotional publications and ephemera associated with late 20th century tourism in Missouri and Arkansas.

W.I.I. Morrow Papers, 1839, 1852 (C2051)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Positive Photostat copy of a day by day account of the journey of Morrow, attending physician to a party of Cherokee Indians, during the forced migration between c. 20 February-24 March 1839. Two typescript copies of a diary also included. Copy of 1852 letter from Morrow regarding use of liquor among Seneca Indians near Enterprise, Missouri.

Frank Luther and Vera I. Mott Papers, 1775-1987 (C2344)
44.75 cubic feet, 6 audio cassettes, 1 roll of microfilm

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Papers of a journalism educator, dean of University of Missouri School of Journalism, and author of Pulitzer Prize-winning HISTORY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES; and his wife.

Frank Luther Mott Papers, 1824-1962 (C2343)
0.5 cubic feet

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Papers of a journalism educator, dean of University of Missouri School of Journalism, and noted author. Includes autographs, correspondence, information on Japanese journalism education after World War II, congratulatory letters on Mott's appointment to the University, and manuscript and galley proof for TIME ENOUGH.

Mount Nebo Baptist Church (Cooper County, Mo.) Records, 1829-1855 (C3037)
1 roll of microfilm

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Records of Mount Nebo Baptist Church. Contains meeting minutes and member lists.

Mount Pleasant Baptist Association Records, 1818-1849 (C1328)
0.2 cubic feet (1 volume)

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The record book of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Association, an organization of churches in central Missouri, containing minutes, rules of decorum and an abstract of principles.

Mount Prairie Presbyterian Church (Ralls County, Mo.) Record Books, 1831-1881 (C1357)
0.06 cubic feet (2 volumes)

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The records of the Mount Prairie Presbyterian Church contain the church organization, 1831; covenant and confession of faith; session minutes beginning in 1833; roll of members; finances; and baptismal records.

Mount Zion Baptist Church Records, 1829-1853 (R0195)
(1 roll of microfilm)

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The Mount Zion Baptist Church, Washington County, Missouri Records contain a microfilm copy of the Mount Zion Baptist Church established in 1829, northwest of Potosi,
Missouri. The church was renamed Fourche-à-Renault Baptist Church in 1834. Its records include membership rolls and minutes of monthly church business meetings.

Mount Zion Baptist Church (Howard County, Mo.) Records, 1830-1948 (C3036)
1 roll of microfilm

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Records of Mount Zion Baptist Church. Contains meeting minutes, a photograph of the church, and member information.

Siegmar Muehl Collection, 1778-1992 (C4075)
0.25 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Collection of genealogical research materials compiled by Siegmar Muehl documenting the Strehly family of Hermann, Missouri, particularly focusing on Joseph Carl Strehly (1778-1860) and Maria Strehly Wolff (1822-1906), including family photographs, correspondence, a travel diary, wills, clippings, genealogical charts, and biographies.

Munday-Henderson Family Papers, 1827-1891, 1946 (C0144)
0.2 cubic feet

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Personal letters, business papers, and newspaper clippings pertaining to members of the Munday family. Letters to David P. Henderson about the ministry, the Civil War, and Christian University at Canton, MO, which he founded in 1856.

Augustus Murphy Papers, 1813-1859 (C0366)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Papers of a tobacco plantation owner who moved from near Louisville, Kentucky, to Callaway County, Missouri, about 1828. Family affairs and farming are discussed.

Betty J. Mussell Collection, 1811-1851 (C0370)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letter, 1811, from Eunice Lowell to her children inquiring as to their health. She speaks of the religious conversion to Christ of several of her neighbors which took place "on the mountain." Reference to the conversion of a hundred or more others as well. Also an urgent request for money to buy wool. Letter, 1851, to Ira Smith from Joseph Smith concerning family health, his desire to see them, and the possibility of employment in a new saw mill.

Reuben S. Nance Records, 1838-1903 (R0183)
0.02 cubic foot (1 folder)

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The Reuben Saunders Nance Papers contains photocopies of a notebook belonging to Reuben S. Nance of Collins, Saint Clair County, Missouri. The notebook includes accounts receivable from mercantile operations, records of school attendance, and personal memoranda.

William Nash Diary and Account Book, 1821-1849 (C0841)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)

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The collection contains a record of daily activities and personal accounts kept by a Callaway County, Missouri, farmer. A few diary entries, 1848-1849, were made by someone other than William Nash.

Nathaniel Chapman Medical Lectures, 1831-1833 (K0111)
0.3 c.f.

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Lecture notes of medical classes taught by Nathaniel Chapman at the Medical Institute of Philadelphia, the first post-graduate medical school in the United States. Such notes were handed down from student to student as textbooks.

Native Sons of Kansas City Collection, 1790-1990 (K0465)
30 c.f.

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Manuscripts, documents, photographs, books, maps, and oversize materials relating to the history of the Kansas City area collected by the Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City.

Native Sons of Kansas City Photograph Collection, 1824-1960 (K0528)
4 c.f.

An artificial collection of photographs from various sources collected by the Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City.

Native Sons of Kansas City Scrapbooks, 1820-1960 (K0395)
14 c.f.

Scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, photographs, manuscript materials, publications, and research notes of a variety of Kansas City area events and topics, such a early settlers and civic leaders, built environment, art and culture, education, government, and commercial activities.

New Hope Baptist Church (Howard County, Mo.) Minutes, 1820-1859 (C1315)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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The records contain the constitution, principles, rules of decorum, and minutes of meetings of the New Hope Baptist Church, later called the Old School Baptist Church of Christ at New Hope, Howard County, Missouri.

New Hope Old School Baptist Church (Howard County, Mo.) Records, 1820-1859 (C1327)
0.07 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Abstract of principles, minutes of meetings, and membership lists.

New Madrid County, Missouri Land Claims, 1820-1846 (C3365)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Plat, description, and letters regarding land claims in New Madrid County entered by Henry Masters, George Ruddle, and Joseph Gravier.

New Providence Presbyterian Church (Guthrie, Mo.) Records, 1823-1964 (C4213)
0.4 cubic feet (10 folders)

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The records of the New Providence Presbyterian Church contain the church constitution, minutes, records of births, deaths, baptisms, and marriages, as well as Sunday School minutes and a few miscellaneous letters regarding church members.

New Salem Baptist Church (Boone County, Mo.) Minutes, 1828-1926 (C1317)
0.36 cubic feet (3 volumes)

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Articles of faith, rules of decorum, church covenant, list of deacons ordained by New Salem, list of members, obituaries, life sketch of David Doyle, and short histories of the church written at various times.

Newton Family Papers, 1829-1835 (C4151)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Cash book, miscellaneous receipts, and an 1835 article of vendue (auction) of H.B. Newton, an early 19th century merchant in Friendship, New York; an 1834 letter regarding the deaths of two Stewart family members; and an 1829 almanac.

Hezekiah Niles Papers, 1831-1835 (C2299)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters to the editor and publisher of NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, MD, from northeastern congressmen requesting reports of the tariff convention in New York, 1831. Also a letter from Louisiana requesting Niles to mention the state's efforts towards improvements.

North Kansas City Levee District v. Forever Green of Missouri, LLC Papers, 1819-2009 (K1111)
80 c.f.

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Research files including legal documents, government records, corporate records, correspondence, minutes, photographs, maps, and plans.

Northeast Missouri Photograph Collection, 1830-1944 (P1117)

An artificial collection of photographs of Missouri's northeastern most counties: Schuyler, Knox, Scotland, Clark, and Lewis.

Northwest Missouri, Photograph Collection, 1831-1997 (P1124)

An artificial collection of photographs from Missouri's northwestern counties: Atchison, Holt, Andrew, Nodaway, Worth, Gentry, and DeKalb.

John Gatewood Nunn Ledger, 1832-1883 (C1194)
0.22 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Ledger of owner of grist, flour and saw mill on the Fabius River in Lewis County, MO. Includes an itemized account of expenditures for erecting the mill, 1832-1834.

Charles O'Dell Collection, 1825-1997 (C4265)
4.0 cubic feet (138 folders)

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The papers of a medical librarian for the Ellis-Fischel State Cancer Center, a public school and college instructor in literature, music, and performing arts, and amateur genealogist. The papers focus on genealogical research material, correspondence, notes, publications, newsletters, newspaper clippings, family group sheets, name lists, scrapbook material, photographs, slides, and other miscellaneous genealogical material.

"Official Welfare Services in Missouri, Their Development and Correlation, 1821 to 1936," MASW, 1821-1936 (C2083)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Report compiled by MASW on state welfare services, particularly correctional and eleemosynary institutions, their historical development, organization, and functions.

Oliver and Oliver Law Firm Records, 1760-2004 (CG0010)
296 cubic feet

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The Oliver and Oliver Law Firm Papers contain case files and correspondence of the firm from the 1880s to 1980s. This collection also includes the genealogy of the Oliver and Watkins families, family correspondence, and civic involvements with the Boy Scouts of America, Rotary Club, Sons of the American Revolution, and Presbyterian Church. In addition, this collection contains material related to the Little River Drainage District, Oliver Land and Development Company, and Mingo National Wildlife Refuge.

Oliver Family Papers, 1805-1977 (C3731)
18.1 cubic feet (1061 folders)

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The papers of a prominent Cape Girardeau, Missouri, family include family and professional correspondence, patriotic organization materials, legal firm records, family financial and legal records, speeches and writings, genealogical materials, information on Missouri State Normal School and First Presbyterian Church of Cape Girardeau, photographs, and miscellany.

P. Hardin and Son Records, 1835 (K0814)
1 v

Scrapbook of late 19th -century clippings pasted in a financial book of a firm located in West Point, Kentucky.

Papers for people enslaved by Frederick A. Hamilton, 1837-1844 (C2026)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers contain a deed of trust between Frederick Hamilton and B.F. Sharp and Beston Callahan, indenturing three enslaved people as security for notes, along with a bill of sale for enslaved people.

Henry E. Parberry Papers, 1829-1865 (C3147)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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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.

Thomas Parmer Papers, 1805-1837 (C0383)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Deeds to land in [Charette] Village, District of St. Charles, to Thomas Parmer from Joseph Chartrau and Joseph Larrevy, and instruments recording the deeds, 1834. Also plan of town of Rockcastle, MO, 1837.

Parnell Family Collection, 1835-1981 (SP0090)
1.5 cubic feet (26 folders, 361 photographs, 1 oversize box)

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The Parnell Family Collection consists of photographs and personal papers of the Parnell family, as well as related families including the Moore, Thompson, and Wilson families of Taney County, Missouri. The collection also contains early images of Taney and Stone County towns and landscapes.

Edward Partridge Letter, 1837 (C1622)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Emily and James H. Partridge, Pittsfield, MA, from Far West, MO, Oct. 12, 1837.

Disowned by his family for his Mormon beliefs, he wrote his sister Emily about his ostracism and outlined his faith. Also mentions civil and military officers, crops, wages, prices, need for lawyers, and Indian wars.

Patton-Scott Family Papers, 1836-1983 (C3710)
1.2 cubic feet

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Correspondence, financial and legal documents, genealogy, poetry, prose, and miscellaneous volumes of the Patton and Scott families. Describes agriculture, economic conditions, overland travel, daily life, family activities, and tragedies. Firsthand accounts of the Civil War's influence on civilian life in Missouri, Mississippi, and Indiana.