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James Brown Papers, 1856-1866 (C0231)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder), 1 roll of microfilm
Letter from H.C.N. Brown, Front Royal, 1856, concerning the hire of Henry and his wife Catherine, probably enslaved. Poem. Death of Virginius Brown in the Civil War. Political conditions, 1866, money, crops, and formerly enslaved individuals.
John Brown Collection, 1855-1904 (K0218)
0.01 c.f.
Photocopies of letters written from Kansas Territory by Brown and his son, John Brown, Jr. to Orson Day of White Hall, NY. Brown, who "just returned from the Kansas War," details his concerns for the Territory and gives travel instructions to Day who apparently planned to move his family to Kansas. Also copies of various newspaper accounts (1859) of the action at Harper's Ferry; and a reprint of an anti-Brown article.
Nellie Fisher Brown Papers, 1831-1874 (C0212)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Land deeds, 1861-1874; address from Hannibal Gazette; postcard; deed of correction, 1874; theme; authorization for layout of public road, 1835; announcement of school examination, 1831.
Alfred Brunson Deed, 1852 (C2759)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a deed of land, lot 11, block 14, Mineral Point, of Alfred Brunson to John Hutchison, acting as guardian of Mary B. Burnett and Thomas B. Burnett, minor heirs of Thomas P. Burnett, October 14, 1852.
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Brush Creek Presbyterian Church (Montgomery County, Mo.) Records, 1849-1944 (C1346)
0.02 cubic feet (1 volume)
Minutes of sessions; registers of baptisms; marriages and deaths; financial records; registers of elders and deacons; roll of communicants; and names from cemetery. The name of the church was changed from Bear Creek to Brush Creek in 1855.
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Bryan Family Papers, 1840-1911 (C4160)
0.1 cubic feet
The papers of the Bryan family contain numerous deeds and personal financial records particularly pertaining to land in Marion County, Missouri.
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Thomas P. Bundridge Papers, 1854-1909 (C4222)
0.2 cubic feet (4 folders)
Various deeds, receipts, correspondence, notes, and merchandise lists of Thomas P. Bundridge and Robert Long of Sullivan and Linn Counties.
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Burchard Family Commissions, 1825-1875 (C1488)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection consists of commissions to Samuel Burchard as sheriff of Gasconade County, MO; postmaster at Delphi, MO; and justice of the Gasconade County court; as well as a commission to P.W. Burchard as notary public for Gasconade County.
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Oscar F. Burge Papers, 1853-1900 (C0211)
0.15 cubic feet (7 folders)
Correspondence, cancelled checks, legal papers, tax receipts and miscellaneous papers belonging to O.F. Burge of Bates and Cooper Counties.
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Tennie S. Burk Papers, 1837-1972 (C4285)
0.75 cubic feet (26 folders)
The papers of Tennessee 'Tennie' Selby Burk contains her personal papers including genealogical information on her family and on various Missouri chapters of the Daughters of the American Colonists (DAC).
George William Burke Papers, 1850-1857 (C3796)
0.16 cubic feet (8 folders)
Collection of fifty-eight letters written between June 1850 and March 1857 by George W. Burke of Saline County, Missouri, to his parents William and Lurany Thornton Burke, brothers and sisters, and grandparents, all of Saline County, describing his journey west and life in the gold-producing area of northern California until his death there in 1857.
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Franklin Burt Papers, 1843-1905 (C0228)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders, 3 volumes); also available on 1 roll of microfilm
Land records, miscellaneous papers, tax assessment book, and diary of Callaway County, MO, farmer. Diary (1859-1872) includes brief daily entries on weather, wind direction, farming and family activities, and visitors.
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Richard W. Burt Papers, 1817-1911 (C0226)
0.12 cubic feet (6 folders)
Description of everyday life in Ohio during the 1840s. Letters on army life during the Mexican War and the Civil War. Letters include descriptions of battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg. Scrapbook contains clippings from Burt's Progressive Age, Coshocton, Ohio, clippings of his letters regarding the Mexican and Civil Wars, and other miscellaneous clippings.
Washington Burtnett Papers, 1855-1862 (C2146)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Photograph and biography of Burtnett, 1861 Union Army discharge, 1855 Sons of Temperance membership, 1856 record book fly leaf, and two 1862 letters to his wife and children. Burtnett wrote about the war, McClellan and Pope outside Richmond, army marches, communications, and his duties as acting clerk for his commander, Captain McDonald.
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Burwell-Tate Family Papers, 1850-1930 (K0233)
1 c.f.
Moses T. Burwell was a prominent Kansas City banker and real estate broker. Primarily photographs of the Burwell and Tate families, including studio portraits and exterior and interior shots of the Burwell's late-1800s home. Also included are a scrapbook, newspaper clippings, and other family papers.
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Bush Family Papers, 1819-1923 (C3887)
0.2 cubic feet (2 volumes, 4 folders), 1 roll of microfilm
Journals, farm records, and correspondence of a Boone County, Kentucky, family who settled in southeastern Arkansas. The papers detail 1819-1820 steamboat trips up the Missouri River from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, and farm operations in the 1850s and 1860s.
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Caby and Hahn Families Papers, 1856-1960 (R1305)
(2 oversize folders)
This is the Robert W. Beiriger collection of family records of the Caby and Hahn families in Bollinger County, Missouri. The collection includes a land record, military pension papers, birth and marriage records, and five photographs of some of the individuals noted in the documents.
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Benjamin Benson Cahoon Papers, 1842-1889 (C0081)
0.8 cubic feet
Papers and correspondence of a Fredericktown, MO, lawyer dealing primarily with his business as a land agent. He paid taxes, made collections, sold land and furnished abstracts of title. Also a few cases involving collection of debts for merchants.
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Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company Papers, 1857-1866 (C1785)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Letters about the exchange of railroad land certificates for land; includes $650 in certificates, a blank bond bearing coupons, and samples for redesign of land certificates.
Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company Seals, 1853 (C3247)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Examples of two kinds of seals to be used on wax or paper, and handwritten description of one seal.
Caldwell Family Papers, 1834-1893 (C0261)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Papers of a Greene County, MO, family; tax and other receipts; estate inventory, 1860; farm book and patent medicine advertisement.
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Dorothy J. Caldwell Photograph Collection, 1830-1970 (P0151)
0.33 linear feet
Photographs, primarily of Rocheport, its buildings and residents. 35mm slides of historic sites across Missouri.
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Callaghan Family Papers, 1821-1859 (C1821)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Envelopes sent to various members of the Callaghan family; receipts.
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Alexander Campbell Letter, 1853 (C0547)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
“To all whom these presents may come,” from Bethany, Virginia, October 15, 1853. A recommendation of Rebecca E. Jones as a teacher.
E. Taylor Campbell Papers, 1840-1970 (C3574)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers contain genealogical information, with photographs, compiled by a descendant of the Hawkins and Taylor families who settled in Knox County, Missouri, about 1840.
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Isaac R. Campbell Papers, 1821-1887 (C1001)
0.4 cubic feet (21 folders)
Business correspondence, miscellaneous accounts, receipts and legal papers of a businessman and merchant of St. Francisville, MO. Material concerning local elections and poll books. Names of electors and how they voted in the national election in 1864.
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Campbell-Hill Family Papers, 1819-1863 (C0320)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers contain typed copies of the following items: deed, 1819; notice of public sale, 1845; and letter of James Hill to his daughter-in-law, 1863.
Loman D. and Laura M. Cansler Collection, 1820-2005 (C4018)
10.5 cubic feet (223 folders), 203 audio tapes, 41 audio cassettes, 35 audio discs, 2 video cassettes
The Loman and Laura Cansler Collection represents a lifetime of collecting on Missouri’s folk song and folklore tradition. Cansler recorded and collected folk songs, proverbs, jokes, and home remedies, primarily in Missouri, but also in Kansas and Illinois. In addition to this large body of folk song and folklore material, the collection includes information on Cansler’s early life in Dallas County, Missouri, his WWII service, and his career as a school counselor at the Fayette and North Kansas City High Schools. The collection also includes slides and prints of Laura Cansler’s abstract expressionist artwork.
Cape Girardeau Academy Collection, 1855 (R1056)
(1 folder)
This is a program of exercises of the First Annual Exhibition of Cape Girardeau Academy, held at Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, on June 28, 1855. Included were elocutions and declamations by students, with musical interludes.
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Cape Girardeau Macadamized and Plank Road Company Collection, 1852-1858 (R1133)
(1 folder)
These are receipts and certificates issued to members of the Rodney family concerning the Cape Girardeau McAdamized and Plank Road Company in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
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Ruth Capehart Collection, 1831-1904 (R0045)
0.02 cubic foot (2 volumes)
The Ruth Capehart Collection contains two journals collection by Ruth Capehart. The first journal was written by J.W. Henderson regarding his trips from New York to the pottery manufacturing district in England. The second journal was written by Louisa Raff, a young girl living in Orange Grove, Mississippi.
Henry Cardell Account, 1851 (C1630)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
State of Missouri in account with Henry Cardell for the funeral expenses of A[lexander] Reid, representative from Lincoln County.
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Carleton College Collection, 1859-1979 (R0133)
1 roll (6 folders)
These are business papers, correspondence, and printed material of Carleton College (1854-1916) and its alumni association, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the history of the school, located in Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri.
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Carpenter Family Papers, 1830-1962 (C3489)
0.4 cubic feet (29 folders)
The papers contain notes, correspondence and genealogical records compiled by Lucy Grant Carpenter Bly while tracing all branches of her family. Most of the early letters are to the Carpenter family of Boone County from relatives in Virginia.
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Carpenter Family Papers, 1796-1851 (C0237)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Israel Grant's will, 1796; Davis Burton's will, 1815; deed for Missouri land, 1830; and trustees' report to Boone County, MO, school board, 1851.
Carpenter's District Council of Greater St. Louis Records, 1834-2003 (S1091)
100 cubic feet
The records of the Carpenter's District Council of Greater St. Louis contains dues, membership, and meeting minute ledgers, documenting the union's efforts to unionize carpenters in the St. Louis area.
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Carrollton Academy (Carrollton, Mo.) Records, 1854-1869 (C0598)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The records contain photostatic copies of minutes of trustees’ and stockholders’ meetings and business records of the academy.
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E.A. Carson Marriage Records, 1837-1882 (C3095)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Records of marriages solemnized by the Rev. Mr. Carson, copied from original record in Savannah, MO. Includes names of bride and groom, date and location of wedding, payment received, and personal remarks.
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George Carson Daybook, 1856 (C1066)
0.06 cubic feet (1 volume)
Record of a general store located in Fayette, MO.
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William Carson Papers, 1815-1863, 1907 (C0238)
0.08 cubic feet (4 folders)
Personal papers of a pioneer farmer and Santa Fe trader of Howard County, Missouri. Material on early medicine. Letters, accounts, receipts, three pictures of Kit Carson's home in Colorado, and miscellaneous papers.
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Lewis Henry Carstarphen Papers, 1686-1971 (C3613)
2.6 cubic feet (228 folders)
Genealogical data on Glascock, Tutt, Watson, Woodson, Carstarphen and collateral families compiled by Carstarphen with his aunt, Emily Marion Watson, collaborating on the Watson, Woodson, and Tutt families.
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William A. Carter Letter, 1850 (C0542)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
To his wife Mary, from Hangtown or Placerville, California, August 11, 1850. Work, prices, and conditions in the gold fields around Placerville.
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Carter-McDade Family Papers, 1847-1993 (C4701)
1.0 cubic feet (31 folders), 6 oversize items
Family papers and genealogical materials created by Marguerite Carter McDade. The materials cover the Campbell, Carter, Fletcher, Hall, McDade, and Whittlesey families of Sedalia, Missouri, and various parts of Texas and Connecticut.
George W. Carvill Letters, 1834-1868 (C2697)
0.17 cubic feet (8 folders)
Sixty-four letters written by Carvill, his wife and daughter to relatives in London from various places in the South, describing family and economic matters, Mexican War, Civil War, Oregon and Maine boundary disputes, and slavery.
Cass County, Missouri, Documents, 1836-1884 (C0936)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders)
Bills of sale for property, cattle and enslaved people, tax receipts, court proceedings, bonds, and court testimony.
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William L. Catherwood Papers, 1859-1873 (C3799)
0.2 cubic feet (14 folders)
Papers pertaining to the 8th Regiment, Enrolled Missouri Militia, which Catherwood commanded during the Civil War. Incorporation papers, deeds, and correspondence of the Lander Hill Tunnel and Silver Mining Company of New York and Nevada. Detailed report and drawing for a New York City rapid transit system, 1873.
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Catholic Churches (Ralls and Monroe Counties, Mo.) Records, 1833-1954 (C2973)
5 rolls of microfilm
Baptismal, confirmation, burial, and marriage records from St. Peter's, St. Joseph's, St. Paul's, and Immaculate Conception Catholic Churches in Ralls County and St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Monroe County. Records are incomplete.
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Cayce Family Papers, 1827-1914 (R1319)
0.5 cubic foot (18 folders)
The Cayce Family Papers contain correspondence to and from members of the Cayce family of St. Francois County, Missouri. Most of the items are addressed to or written by Ellis P. Cayce. The papers contain information on family members, family businesses, and Ellis’s courtship of Emma Dupuy.
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Milton P. Cayce Sr. Daybook, 1856 (C1068)
0.04 cubic feet (1 volume)
Record of a Farmington, MO, merchant.
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Milton Pleasant Cayce Papers, 1849-1883 (R0498)
4 folders
These are personal and business papers of Milton P. Cayce and family of Farmington, St.
Francois County, Missouri. Included are bills of lading for goods shipped through Ste. Genevieve
(1849), family correspondence and business papers (1833-1926), and papers and correspondence
with Firmin A. Rozier regarding the St. Francois and Iron Mountain Road Company (1877-1883).