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Lynch Family Papers, 1765-1929 (C4117)
0.1 cubic feet
The papers of the Lynch Family of Howard County, Missouri, contain correspondence, photographs, land records and other legal papers, financial documents, genealogical data, and Civil War service papers. The correspondence within this collection is primarily between members of the Lynch family.
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James Lewis Lynch Memoirs, 1838-1923 (C0132)
0.7 cubic feet
Memoirs written by Lynch about his family in Howard and Saline Counties. Genealogy from Austria to Virginia to Missouri, farm life, education, Civil War experiences, and tobacco exporting, 1864. Essays for children on citizenship, study, and the Christian life.
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Ransom B. Lynch Journals, 1816-1957 (R1518)
1.5 cubic feet (29 folders)
The Ransom B. Lynch Journals consist of 42 journals written by Dr. Ransom B. Lynch of Texas County, Missouri, from 1875 to 1934. The journals describe Dr. Lynch’s daily activities, finances, medical practice, and weather conditions.
William H. Lynch Diaries, 1864-1865 (C1153)
0.02 cubic feet (2 volumes)
William H. Lynch of Houston, MO, served as commissary sergeant in the 32nd Regiment, Infantry, Missouri Volunteers, 3rd Brigade, 1st Division. Vol. I Civil War, 1864, Vol. II Civil War and University of Missouri, 1865.
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William Henry Lynch Papers, 1859-1905 (R0202)
(3 rolls of microfilm)
The William Henry Lynch Papers contain microfilm copies of the diaries and personal papers of an educator in southern Missouri. Lynch was a native of Houston, Texas County, Missouri. He served in the 32nd Missouri Infantry during the Civil War, and was principal of schools in Steelville, St. James, Salem, West Plains, and Mountain Grove, Missouri, following the war.
Nathaniel Lyon Letter, 1861 (C0470)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
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Mabrey Family Papers, 1854-1964 (SP0018)
.5 cubic feet 69 folders
The Mabrey family papers consist of the diaries and letters of Henry Yeakley Mabrey and his son, George Henry Mabrey.
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Machette-Scott Family Papers, 1791-1940 (C4486)
2.8 cubic feet (81 folders)
Correspondence, financial records, postcards, journals, scrapbooks, photographs, genealogical records, and chapters of an unpublished book regarding a middle-class Victorian family from Fulton, Missouri.
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John Machir Papers, 1791-1899 (C2893)
0.6 cubic feet (27 folders)
The papers of John Machir, a businessman and landowner who lived in St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri, consist of the legal papers of his father, Henry Machir, business correspondence, bills of sale for enslaved people, deeds, tax bills, surveys, personal correspondence, and account books.
John Armenius Mack Papers, 1850-1869 (R0742)
(1 folder)
The John Armenius Mack Papers contain photocopies of the correspondence of John A. Mack, an attorney and county official of Greene County, Missouri. Most of the collection consists of letters to his sons, who were serving in the Union Army in Missouri and Arkansas. There are also postwar letters to Mack from Jefferson City, containing political news.
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Macke Store Records, 1835-1972 (C0043)
26 rolls of microfilm (2,192 folders, 24 volumes on microfilm)
The business records of a Gordonville, Missouri, dry goods store, which grew into a general merchandise and farm service operation, follow this family-owned business from Vicksburg, Mississippi, through its move to Cape Girardeau County in 1840 and trace its development there into the 1970s.
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Madill Family Correspondence, 1866-1867 (S0634)
0.01 cubic foot, 1 folder
This collection contains correspondence to and from William and George Madill, who were brothers who lived in St. Louis in 1866 and 1867. They had a brother, H.J. Madill, who lived in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. In the letters, the brothers discuss H.J.'s running for political office on the Republican Party ticket and William's bout with cholera.
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Garland Jefferson Mahan Diaries, 1864-1873, 1961 (C2586)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)
The collection contains diaries detailing a trip taken by ox train in 1864 from Cole County, MO, to Virginia City, MT. Also chronicled, although to a lesser extent, is the return trip by steamboat down the Missouri River in 1866. Diaries also include drafts of letters, notes, and lists of students. A typescript of the diaries, plus photos of some of the sites along the route taken in 1961, complete the collection.
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John B. Mains Papers, 1861-1864 (R0245)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The John B. Mains Papers contain photocopies of Civil War letters written by John B. Mains who served in the 6th Missouri Infantry. Mains wrote from camps in Missouri while he served in John C. Fremont’s Army of the West, and from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama during service with the Army of the Tennessee.
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Elliott W. Major Papers, 1860s-1950 (C4039)
0.3 cubic feet (9 folders)
The collection contains newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, telegrams, and memos relating to Elliot Major's campaign for governor of Missouri in 1912, and major events that occurred during his administration.
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Samuel Collier Major Papers, 1861-1884 (C0368)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
A letter, 5 April 1861, listing law books and where they might be purchased; a handbill for an administrator's sale, 6 June 1876; and a handwritten legal bond, 6 October 1884. Major was a public administrator.
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Solomon Males Papers, 1861-1863 (C1952)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Certificate of promotion to 1st lieutenant in the 6th Regiment, Missouri Volunteers, 1861; certificate of promotion to captain in same outfit, 1863; and mustering-out papers, 1863.
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Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Papers, 1798-1981 (S0452)
25 cubic fet, 1321 folders, 268 photographs, 39 glass slides, 17 volumes
Edward Mallinckrodt was an Industrialist, scientist, and philanthropist in St. Louis. He Served as Mallinckrodt Chemical Works director (1901-1965), vice-president (1918-1928), and board chairman (1928-1965). The collection Documents family and business history, Mallinckrodt’s contributions to medicine, conservation, and education. Included in the collection are correspondence, reports, biographies, speeches, notes, scrapbooks, publications, blueprints, patents, and photographs.
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Clair V. Mann Collection, 1821-1973 (C3556)
5.25 cubic feet (560 folders, 23 volumes)
Papers pertaining to the Meramec Iron Works, James family, Frisco Railroad, School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla, engineering education, testing of students, and other subjects of interest to Mann as an historian and engineer.
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Henry Perrin Mann Papers, 1862-1865 (R0455)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The Henry Perrin Mann Papers contain the Civil War diaries of Henry P. Mann, Co. B Cavalry, 36th Illinois Infantry. The company was later assigned to the 15th Illinois Cavalry as Co. K. The diaries cover the Pea Ridge campaign in Missouri and Arkansas, the occupation of Corinth, Mississippi, the battle of Chickamauga, the siege of Chattanooga, and the Atlanta campaign. The entries for 1865 concern personal business and finances.
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Maschel Manring Papers, 1858-1880 (K0291)
0.3 c.f.
Manring was a businessman/farmer in Daviess and Gentry Counties, MO and also commissioned officer in the Union Army. Bound volumes used for multiple purposes including record book of Gentry County, MO School District #3; account book/ledger for livery business; Civil War diary; "A Trip to Kansas" describing nature of the land and soil, towns, and people; and general notes and personal financial records.
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Maramec Iron Works (St. James, Mo.) Scrip, 1869 (C1515)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains ten cent merchandise certificate No. 1463 issued by the Maramec Iron Works, 1 February 1869.
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Curtis Fletcher Marbut Papers, 1852-1983 (C3720)
6.8 cubic feet (250 folders)
The personal and professional papers of C. F. Marbut, a geology professor at the University of Missouri, 1895-1910, and soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1910-1935, includes correspondence, estate and financial records, photographs, publications, manuscripts, and maps. The personal correspondence received by Louise Marbut Moomaw and a short series of Civil War letters are also included in the papers.
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Mariska Pugsley Marker Papers, 1813-2008 (K0500)
8 c.f.
Family papers of descendants of John Campbell of Kansas City, in particular the Frederic and Charlotte Pugsley family and their daughter Mariska.
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Meredith Miles Marmaduke Papers, 1823-1886 (C1021)
0.6 cubic feet; also available on 1 roll of microfilm
Correspondence and miscellaneous personal and business papers of a Saline County, Missouri, farmer, businessman, lieutenant governor, and governor of Missouri.
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Marshall Family Papers, 1852-1909 (C0204)
0.1 cubic feet (5 folders), 1 roll of microfilm
Land deeds and family letters of the Joseph Marshall family and Lynch family, Saline County, MO, from Fayette, Fulton, Glasgow, Pettis County, Howard County, and Blue Lick, and from Lynch sisters at Oxford Female College, Cooper Female Seminary, and Minnesota with mention of family members, schools, slaves, California, and crops.
J.L. Marshall Accounts, 1854-1878 (C1541)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Itemized drug accounts of J.L. Marshall, J.S. Moffatt & Company, J.T. Cunningham, and W.C. Bolin with the following companies: Z.F. Wetzell & Company, Henry Blaksley, Richardson & Company, and Meyer Brothers & Company all of St. Louis, MO, and William P. Troth & Company, Philadelphia, PA.
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Martin Family Papers, 1857-1944 (R1472)
0.02 cubic foot (2 folders)
The Martin Family Papers contain an autobiographical account of Paris Clark Martin's life. The autobiographical stories include events leading up to and after the Civil War, information about southeastern Missouri, and Tom How's (Howe's) Mill. The collection also includes the memoirs of Paris Clark Martin's son, William Lawrence Martin, which discusses his father.
Absolom J. Martin and Eli T. Martin Letters, 1863-1864 (K0299)
0.01 c.f.
Letters written from various war camp locations and a hospital in Virginia. Usually the brothers, who were in the same Confederate regiment, would write their own separate letters on a single piece of paper.
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Martin and Erwin Families Papers, 1860-1877, 1931 (SP0173)
0.5 cubic foot (4 oversize items, 1 oversize box)
The Martin and Erwin Families Papers contain James H. Martin’s certificates for two fraternal organizations from 1860 to 1877 and a certificate of commission for the Missouri Milita dated 1865. The collection also includes a 1931 photograph of Carthage Marble Corporation employees in Carthage, Missouri. Among the employees pictured is Mark W. Erwin.
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Mary Kenney Photograph Collection, 1857-1987 (P1210)
28 photographs
Photographs of Glasgow, Missouri, and the Rocheport, Missouri, cave. Postcards depicting Hannibal, Missouri.
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Mason Family Papers, 1820-1982 (CA6555)
5.4 cubic feet, 5 oversize items
The papers of the Harry Proctor Mason family of Fayette, Missouri, largely contain correspondence written during the early to mid-twentieth century. Also includes genealogical materials, photographs, postcards, and miscellaneous material.
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E.B. Mason Appointment, 1861 (C0549)
1 oversize item
Appointment as deputy postmaster at LaSalle, Illinois, by Abraham Lincoln.
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Masonic Hall Association Receipts, 1858-1860 (C1865)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Four receipts of the Masonic Hall Association for T.M. Barron, signed by J.T. Donaldson, Ferdinand Meyer and E. Gardner Obear.
Gerald R. Massie Photographs, 1860-1980 (P0016)
0.83 cubic feet (497 photographs)
Photographs of scenes across Missouri, many taken as part of Massie's work as Missouri's state photographer. Events highlighted include Winston Churchill's visit to Fulton, Governor Hearnes' inaugural celebrations in 1965 and 1969, and the Battle of Pilot Knob Centennial commemoration in 1964. The collection includes extensive coverage of the Missouri State Capitol building. Geographically, the collection covers much of Missouri, with particular focus on tourist destinations: St. Louis, Kansas City, Hannibal, Ste. Genevieve, and the Ozarks.
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William L. H. Matkin Papers, circa 1865-1922 (R0784)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The William L. H. Matkin Papers contains the memoranda book of Reverand William L. H. Matkin, a Baptist minister in Madison County, Missouri. Included are notes on persons baptized and married, funerals preached, notations on personal finances, and an inventory of a blacksmith shop.
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Matthews Family Papers, 1862-1863 (C3816)
0.04 cubic feet (2 folders)
The papers of the Matthews family of Columbia, Missouri, include a reminiscence written by Mary Matthews Maupin in memory of her father, James L. Matthews, and two letters written during the Civil War by James L. Matthews.
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John Wesley Matthews Papers, 1861-1863 (R0039)
0.01 cubic foot (1 folder)
The John Wesley Matthews Papers contain photocopies of letters written by John W. Matthews to his family relating his experiences in the 32nd Regiment, Missouri Volunteers. The letters contain descriptions of provost duty in St. Louis, and the condition of the regiment after the surrender of Vicksburg. There is also a poem describing the Vicksburg campaign.
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Leonard Matthews Family Papers, 1861-2003 (S0841)
1 cubic foot, 38 photographs
The Leonard Matthews Family Papers contain correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and Leonard Matthews's autobiography "A Long Life In Review," pertaining to the lives of Leonard Matthews, Leonard Matthews Jr., and William Matthews.
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Matthews-Chambers Papers, 1852-1974 (S0440)
0.4 cubic foot, 29 folders
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Maxwell and Johnson (Alexandria, Mo.) Account Book, 1861-1862 (C1163)
0.18 cubic feet (1 volume)
Accounts of a general merchandise firm, Alexandria, MO.
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Jacob May Diary, 1863 (C2426)
1 roll of microfilm
Diary concerning U.S. military action in the Shenandoah Valley and West Virginia. References to marches, scouting parties, guard duty, grand review and inspection, prisoners, Union and Confederate deserters, traitors, pay allowances, food rations, weather, West Virginia's constitutional election, colleagues, and military action elsewhere.
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Margaret A. McBride Papers, 1839-1997 (SP0158)
0.3 cubic foot (17 folders)
The Margaret A. McBride Papers contains genealogical research created and compiled by Margaret Arlene McBride, including surname files, family histories, and generation charts. The materials date from 1839 to 1997 and relate to families throughout Barry, Lawrence, and Pulaski counties of Missouri.
William A. McCanse Papers, 1856, 1868 (C1290)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
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.
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Nathan H. McCausland Papers, 1858-1864 (C2013)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Nathan H. McCausland contain a receipt for share of estate of Nathan Heald; an oath of loyalty, 1862; and two letters from Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, 1864.
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David F. McClay Deeds, 1868-1888 (C1884)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
Deeds to two tracts of land in township 62, Adair County, MO, 8 July 1868 and 20 May 1888.
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Joseph Washington McClurg Papers, 1869 (C1678)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The papers of Joseph Washington McClurg contain correspondence about the return of the Great Seal of Missouri, May 1869. Letters are from Governor McClurg and former Lieutenant Governor Thomas C. Reynolds. They include comments about reconstruction in Missouri.
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Joseph Washington McClurg Telegram, 1869 (C1746)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)
The collection contains a telegram to Charles Dougherty, Independence, MO, from Jefferson City, MO, Dec. 24, 1869. Dougherty was sheriff of Jackson County, and the telegram gives instructions for organizing a militia to aid in the capture or killing of Frank and Jesse James.
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James McComb Papers, 1852-1926 (R0238)
(1 roll of microfilm)
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James McConathy Carte de Visite, 1863 (P0257)
1 photograph
Carte de visite of James McConathy who owned a distillery in Boone County in 1800s at what is now Rockbridge State Park.