1850s

Mary Jane "Mollie" Moss Memory Books, 1852-1853 (CA6449)
0.2 cubic feet

Memory books belonging to a resident of Hannibal, Missouri, contain autographs, poetry, and notes from friends and family.

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 Gilead Church Records, 1853-1983 (K0165)
0.4 c.f. (5 folders)

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Photocopy of a minute book of the Church. Also included deeds for land which became the Mount Gilead Church Cemetery, and a series of news clippings relating the history of the Church, the adjoining school and their eventual transfer to Clay County to become part of the County Parks system.

Mount Gilead School Records, 1854-1859 (K0164)
0.02 c.f. (1 folder)

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Photocopies of minutes, tax levies and tax receipts for the Mount Gilead School District in Clay County, Missouri. Also is an "Inventory of Sale of Personal Property of T.M. Gosney, Deceased."

Mount Horeb Presbyterian Church (Monroe County, Mo.) Record Book, 1852-1875 (C1355)
0.05 cubic feet (1 volume)

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The records contain minutes, membership records, and record of infant baptisms.

Mount Lebanon Baptist Church Records, 1847-circa 1967 (R0382)
(2 folders)

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These are minutes of meetings and membership records of the Mount Lebanon Baptist Church near Thornfield in Ozark County, Missouri. The church was founded in 1847 as the Mount Lebanon Church of General Baptists.

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 United Baptist Church (Hartsburg, Mo.) Records, 1858-1950 (C2990)
2 rolls of microfilm

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Meeting minutes and membership lists dating from organization in 1858 through May 1950 for a Boone County, MO, church. Minutes deal with construction and maintenance of church building, fund raising, member discipline, officers, delegates to the Little Bonne Femme Association of the Southern Baptist Church, and searches for ministers.

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 Vernon Union Sabbath School (Mount Vernon, Mo.) Book, 1851 (C0710)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The first book of rules of the Union Sunday School at Mount Vernon, MO, organized in October 1851. Typed copy also included.

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.

Mount Zion Regular Baptist Association Record Books, 1842-1908 (C1314)
0.13 cubic feet (2 volumes)

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The records contain minute books including the constitution, abstract of principles, rules of decorum, and minutes of the first through sixty-seventh meetings of the Mount Zion Regular Baptist Association.

Mount Zion Regular Baptist Church Records, 1841-1850 (R1354)
(1 oversize voluem)

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The Mount Zion Regular Baptist Church minutes book contains minutes from monthly meetings 1841-1850. This church record book contains 65 pages of minutes from the monthly meetings held by Mount Zion Regular Baptist Church, Pulaski County, August 1841 to January 1850.

Henry Thomas Mudd Papers, 1850-1879 (C1023)
0.25 cubic feet

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Correspondence and papers of Henry T. Mudd of Kirkwood and St. Louis, MO. Mudd was a businessman; politician, member of the Missouri General Assembly, delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention in 1875, and a curator of the University of Missouri.

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.

William Muldrow Papers, 1848-1869 (C1902)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Deeds, copies of deeds, and other legal papers pertaining to a suit of Muldrow against John A. Sutter.

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.

W.B. Napton Letter, 1857 (C1879)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To C.F. Jackson, Oct. 3, 1857. Letter discussing at length the necessity of salaries to attract good Missouri Supreme Court judges; combating the growing discussion of emancipation of the slaves; Missouri politics; and the completion of the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad.

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.

John G. Neihardt Papers, c. 1858-1974 (C3716)
9.4 cubic feet, 41 video cassettes, 52 DVDs, 57 audio cassettes, 3 CDs, 3 audio discs (558 folders also available on 18 rolls of microfilm)

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Correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, news clippings, audio and video cassettes, and miscellaneous material of poet. Neihardt was most famous for his epic, A CYCLE OF THE WEST, and BLACK ELK SPEAKS. He was poet laureate of Nebraska, literary editor of the ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 1926-1938, and instructor at the University of Missouri, 1949-1965.

John H.B. Neill Papers, 1850-1860 (C1778)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letters to his wife describing his overland journey to California in 1850, military land warrant in the name of Nancy Neill, and document explaining J.H.B. Neill's ownership of certain land, 1860.

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 Hope United Baptist Church of Christ (Ripley County, Mo.) Records, 1842-1852 (C1316)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The records contain the constitution of 1843, names of members, and letters of admission and dismissal.

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.

W. H. Newland Papers, 1859 (R0758)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)

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This is a photocopy and typescript of a letter dated June 2, 1859, from W. H. Newland at Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, to his wife, Jane. Newland was in Leavenworth to sell a drove of cattle.

Nodaway County, Missouri, Stray Book, 1845-1850 (C1191)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Includes description and appraised value of animals and names of persons taking up the strayed livestock.

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.

North Missouri Railroad Subscription Books, 1853-1854 (C1193)
0.01 cubic feet(2 volumes)

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Boone County, Missouri, books listing subscribers to stock in the North Missouri Railroad. 

Northeast Missouri Photograph Collection, 1830-1944 (P1117)

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

Northrop Family Papers, 1852-1998 (R1489)
4 cubic feet (68 folders)

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The Northrop Family Papers contain correspondence between members of the Northrop family, family genealogy, and personal papers related to the family farm near Simcoe, Missouri.

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.

Norma Levin Novak Collection, 1852-1991 (K1107)
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Photocopy of research notes and typed drafts of the history of Jews in Leavenworth, KS prepared by Novak, Eve Sickel Goldstein and Kathy Goldman Held Green.

Nowlin, Sneed and Nowlin Invoice Book, 1851-1867 (C1192)
0.14 cubic feet (1 volume)

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Invoices of items purchased by a general merchandise firm in Missouri City, MO, mounted on pages of an account book entitled "Richfield, MO, 1851-1852." 

S. Claude Null Family Papers, 1840-1992 (R1390)
1.75 cubic feet (57 folders, 3 volumes, 203 photographs)

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The S. Claude Null Family Papers contain the personal and family papers for Claude Null of Rolla, Missouri. These papers include personal correspondence, genealogy research, and photographs for the Null, Harrison, Headrick/Hedrick, and connected families.

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.

Jordan O'Bryan Letter, 1854 (C3286)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The collection contains a letter to John G. Miller from Jordan in Boonville, MO, Feb. 6, 1854, regarding the position of slavery in Missouri and Miller's political strength in Boonville.

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.

O. H. Cogswell and Company Records, 1855-1857 (K0317)
0.4 c.f.

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Daybook of financial transactions for Cogswell's store in Independence, MO. Indexed listing the names of customers.

"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.

Richard James Oglesby Letter, 1858 (C2774)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Letter to a friend describing opposition to Judge Douglas; candidacy and loss in Missouri 7th district congressional race, 1858; slavery; and mutual acquaintances.

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.