Family and Personal Papers

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Rosalind Goldfinger Ginsburg Papers, no date (K1164)
0.02 c.f.

Ginsburg was involved with numerous volunteer activities, especially the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the Congregation Beth Shalom, and its Sisterhood. Includes newspapers clippings and other material about the Jewish Community Center Golden Age Club and Beth Shalom. Also papers relating to her mother-in-law, Henriette Ginsberg.

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H.K. Givens Letter, 1894 (C0524)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Mrs. Pearson, from Fayette, Missouri, Nov. 29, 1894. Short note referring to some material Mrs. Pearson sent him. Probably Kate Pearson of Fayette, Missouri.

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Spencer H. Givens Collection, 1816-1911 (C0106)
0.2 cubic feet

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This collection consists of documents collected by Spencer H. Givens: the Levin Cropper Papers and historical documents. The Cropper papers contain business and personal correspondence with his brother in New York, his children in Illinois, and other family members in Louisiana and Mississippi. The historical documents include miscellaneous land grants and indentures, estate documents, business correspondence, naturalization and emigration documents, handbills, newspapers and advertisements.

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Cora S. Gladish Papers, 1885-1951 (CA5818)
1 cubic foot

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Sheet music of compositions written and published by Cora Gladish of Higginsville, Missouri, related correspondence, biographical information, watercolors, photographs, and miscellaneous material. Also includes diaries of Ann Eliza Gladish and miscellaneous Gladish family material.

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Stephen Glascock Letter, 1823 (C2088)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To French Glascock, Upperville, Loudoun County, VA, from New London, Ralls County, MO, August 10, 1823.

The letter mentions the duel fought between Thomas C. Rector, brother of William V. Rector, and Joshua Barton, brother of David Barton, U.S. senator from Missouri. Letter also describes an epidemic of typhus that occurred in New London that summer.

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Nathan Glasgow Papers, 1820-1871 (C3430)
0.18 cubic feet (9 folders)

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Correspondence, receipts, promissory notes, receipts for sale of slaves, land surveys, deeds, indentures, and a book of mathematic examples of John A. and Nathan Glasgow of Columbia and Millersburg, MO.

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Dorothy and Herman Glass Papers, 1916-2000 (K0936)
0.07 c.f.

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The collection consists of photographs, programs, and newsletters from B'nai B'rith and Hadassah along with a high school commencement program, yearbook, and newspaper clippings.

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Harold and Carolyn Shankman Glazer Papers, 1999-2006 (K1299)
0.01 c.f.

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The papers of Harold Glazer & Carolyn Shankman Glazer include materials
relating to ROMEO, (Retired Old Men's Eating Organization) from 1997 to 2006.

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Glenn Family Papers, 1845-1930 (C0107)
3.8 cubic feet, 6 oversize volumes

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The personal and business papers of John H. Glenn and his sons Addison N. Glenn and Robert C. Glenn include account books of the Mound City, Missouri, general merchandise, furniture, and drug stores run by John and Robert Glenn and the farm implement store managed by Addison Glenn for the McKeeson & Rinker Company in Falls City, Nebraska. The collection also includes correspondence between family members, wedding invitations, the Glenns' lending library circulation records, and a minute book for the Mound City G.A.R. post.

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"The Development of Missouri," Gert Goebel, 1879 (C1109)
0.1 cubic feet (1 volume)

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English translation of "Langer als ein Menschenleben in Missouri," with some changes from the work published in 1877.

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William A. Goff Papers, 1959-1983 (K0043)
11 c.f.

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Research notes, articles, and correspondence of a historian for Westport Historical Society and editor of the Westport Historical Quarterly. His topics included fur trade, Civil War, overland trails, and Kansas City regional history.

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Rhetta Turkin Goldstein Papers, 1940-1998 (K1145)
0.1 c.f.

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Goldstein was active in B'nai B'rith and the Jewish War Veterans, Missouri-Kansas, No. 605 Post and Auxiliary, among other Jewish organizations. Includes photographs, programs, clippings, correspondence, and publications.

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Albert Irving Goller Papers, 1941-1998 (K0863)
4 c.f.

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Goller was a principle with the Vile-Goller Fine Arts Printing & Lithographing Company and a civic leader in the Kansas City Jewish Community. Photographs, newspapers, films, VHS video tapes, newspaper clippings, letters, cards, invites, certificates, high school and college yearbooks, commemorative booklets.

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Samuel David Goller and Edith Silberman Goller Papers, 1923-1960 (K1175)
0.25 cubic foot (10 folders, 12 negatives, 32 photographs, 1 photograph album)

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The Samuel David Goller and Edith Silberman Goller Papers contain materials related to the Vile-Goller Printing Company, Jewish community activities and organizations, and a variety of personal photographs, including a photograph album compiled by Edith Goller.

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Shirley Stolowy Goller Papers, 1924-1992 (K1189)
2 c.f.

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Goller was an prominent Jewish civic leader in Kansas City, MO photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, and other documents related to Goller's life and many community activities.

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James Edward Goodrich Papers, 1904-1950 (K0383)
5 c.f.

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Goodrich was an attorney, Jackson County Circuit Judge, Curator of the University of Missouri, and general counsel for the Commerce Trust Company. Includes business records and correspondence, along with personal receipts and correspondence to and from Goodrich. Some deal with the bankruptcy of businesses in Kansas City and annual reports, notices publications related to Commerce Trust Company and other local and national corporations.

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James W. Goodrich Collection, 1770s-2001 (CA6053)
8 cubic feet, 8 rolls of microfilm

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Papers and miscellaneous research material collected by the Director of the State Historical Society of Missouri. Includes correspondence; photographs, slides and negatives; newspaper clippings; issues of the Missouri Conservationist and Waterfowl magazines; research notes, and photocopies; Revolutionary War Orderly Book of Tertius Taylor, volumes 1 and 2 [bound and foldered]; and history and genealogy of Charles H. Taylor family [Goodrich maternal ancestry].

Addie Aldridge Gordon Papers, 1855-1943 (K0068)
1 c.f.

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This collection contains a portion of a manuscript written by Addie Aldridge Gordon, a woman born and raised in Cass County in the late 1800s and early 1900s, as well as other drafts, essays, notes, and assorted family papers.

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Gordon-Cox Family Papers, 1784-1980 (K0156)
0.07 c.f.

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Genealogical research, correspondence, and copies of the documents to prove the lineage, anecdotes and reminiscences about family members in the form of short stories, and clippings; death, birth, and marriage certificates; and photographs relating to family history in Clay County, MO.

Fisk Gore Diary, 1850-1897 (S0528)
0.1 cubic foot, 1 folder

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Fisk Gore probably was born in Boston in 1831. When he was nineteen years old, Gore traveled to California and later to the Klondikeas part of the Gold Rush. During the Civil War, Fisk fought as a soldier in the Union Army while his brother joined the Confederate Army and eventually became a prisoner of war. The diary primarily documents Fisk Gore's experiences during the Gold Rush in California in the 1850s and in the Klondike in the 1890s.

Dorothy Gottlieb Papers, 1938-1986 (K1338)
.08 c.f.

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photograph, materials relating to Gottlieb's involvement with Hadassah, Beth Shalom, clippings, awards

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Elam O. and Louisa Reck Graham Letters, 1906-1915 (C4175)
0.2 cubic feet (8 folders)

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Letters from Anna Louise Reck to Elam O. Graham 1906-1907 concerning their courtship, marriage and son. Also general family news. The 1915 material consists of letters of condolence from family and friends to Elam O. Graham on the death of his mother.

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Ralph Gravely Scrapbook, 1910-1914 (P0856)
49 photographs

Copy photos from scrapbook of Gravely, manager of Bolivar Free Press. Includes photos of Gravely family, Bolivar, and the University of Missouri.

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David William Graves Autobiography, 1916 (C0158)
0.06 cubic feet (3 folders)

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Autobiography of a Montgomery County, MO, farmer, schoolteacher, and Baptist missionary and minister. Donor-compiled index included.

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Mrs. Benjamin F. Gray Jr. Papers, 1908-1921 (C1931)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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The papers of Mrs. Benjamin F. Gray, Jr. contain two letters to Mrs. Gray, one pertaining to William Henry Ashley; as well as an April 1908 issue of THE AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE containing an article about Ashley.

Greef Family Papers, 1849-1920, undated (C4510)
0.1 cubic feet (7 folders)

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Genealogical information, correspondence, photocopied images, and other documents relating to the Greefs, a German family who immigrated to Tavern Creek, Missouri, in 1833.  Some of the documents are written in German.

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F.B. Green Collection, 1832-1897 (C0430)
2 oversize volumes, 1 roll of microfilm

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Account books of L.A. Snider and Company, Pike Creek, MO. Census record of Carter Township, Carter County, MO, 1860. Interspersed through account books are tax registers, notes on the weather, marriage records, estate records, medical accounts, and a personal diary.

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Green-Bond Family Papers, 1902-1993 (C4566)
2.0 cubic feet (45 folders, 34 oversize items)

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The papers of two related Mexico (Mo.) families, including travel journals, genealogical information, photographs, and the papers surrounding the construction of the A. P. and Josephine Green estate in Audrain County.

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Jackye and Allan Greenberg Papers, 1986-2013 (K1295)
1 c.f.

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The papers in this collection include letters sent in 1987 to Anatoly Levitin, a refusenik family in Kharkov, USSR, who tried for many years to immigrate to Israel. The correspondence with Soviet Jews was a program, Project Yachad, sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Bureau. Memos and guidelines for participating in the program from the JCRB to the adopted family contacts are also included. Other materials include a speech by Allan Greenberg in 1995 for the 50th anniversary of the Kehilath Israel Synagogue, and a letter to Alan Goldberg from President Bill Clinton in 1994 regarding the denial of Jonathan Pollard's application for executive clemency.

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J.P. Greene Letter, 1928 (C1978)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Howard Stephens, from Santa Ana, CA, Nov. 12, 1928.

Personal letter.

Lorenzo and Thomasina Talley Greene Papers, 1920s-2021 (CA5520)
28.55 cubic feet, audiovisual material, 5 oversize items

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Research files, personal papers, and family materials of a professional historian who taught at Lincoln University from 1933-1972. Includes materials of his son, Tommy Greene, and his son's family.

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Nelle Claycomb Greenwaide Papers, 1877-1988 (K1104)
0.3 c.f.

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Family photographs, baby book, school/sorority composites, passports, a framed letter and embroidery, an autograph book, and several photograph albums belonging to Greenwaide.

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Jerry D. Greer Papers, 1956-2007 (CA5608)
136 cubic feet

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The personal and professional papers of a U.S. Forest Ranger who worked at the Payette National Forest in Idaho contain correspondence, leadership and training materials, meeting and event files, and other records. Includes papers while a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, family papers, and materials regarding Bedford, Indiana.

Josiah Gregg Letter, 1829 (C1546)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To G.E. Boswell, S. Martin, A. Pearson, W. Pruntry, E.D. Sappington, and B.E. Cooper, Jonesborough, [MO], from Mount Prairie, [MO], June 25, 1829. Gregg, author and adventurer who made numerous trips to the southwest, accepted an invitation to speak at the Jonesborough Independence Day celebration only if they could not obtain another speaker.

Harlan Cecil Gregory Papers, 1900-2023 (R1530)
0.2 cubic foot (4 folders, 158 photographs, 2 negatives)

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The Harlan Cecil Gregory Papers contain photographs and genealogical histories of the Gregory and Skyles family who settled in Howell and Texas Counties in Missouri.

John Grey [Ignace Hatchiorauquasha] Collection, 1995 (K1014)
0.02 c.f

Grey, was an Iroquois Leader, explorer, and mountain man. Manuscript, John Grey: Most Spirited of Mountain Men, written by Ellen Carney.

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Evlewt Groene Kirkwood Collection, 1928-1944 (S0895)
0.04 cubic foot

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The Evlewt Groene collection consists of two scrapbooks documenting her student career and activities at Kirkwood High School.

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Henry Emmett Gross Papers, 1921-1981 (R0837)
1 cubic foot (18 folders)

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These are the professional papers of Henry Emmett Gross, an engineer, inventor, and map-maker from Webster Groves, Missouri. Most of the collection concerns his patents for deep ocean oil drilling and marine salvage.

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Anna Lee Grossman Papers, 1944-1989 (R1509)
0.2 cubic foot (2 folders, 14 photographs)

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The Anna Lee Grossman Papers contain correspondence written to Anna Grossman in response to letters she sent to politicians and world leaders regarding current events. The letters date from 1959 to 1989.

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Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor Letter, 1931 (C2285)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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To Walter Williams, Washington, D.C., from Washington, D.C., Apr. 27, 1931.

Regrets not being able to see Williams. Acknowledges his note and sends copy of National Geographic's book on Washington. Reference to future "more complete" issue on Washington. No enclosures are now with the letter.

Grover Family Papers, 1791-1907 (CA6622)
0.4 cubic feet

The collection contains correspondence, deeds, financial papers, a diary, wallets, military papers, and miscellaneous material of a family from Warrensburg, Missouri. Much of the material pertains to Letitia D. Grover and some documents are in German.

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Phocion L. Guillet Papers, 1902-1904 (K1129)
0.2 c.f.

Guillet was a general agent for John Hancock Insurance Company and also a salesman for the Harvey-Dutton Dry Goods Company. Includes insurance policy applications and related correspondence, and general correspondence Also a letter introducing Guillet as a new member of the firm of Harvey-Dutton Dry Goods Company.

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Joseph Guinotte Papers, 1836-1849 (K0477)
0.01 c.f.

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Property deeds connected to the Chouteau and later the Guinotte families, as well as other early settlers in Kansas City, MO.

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Odon Guitar Article, 1855 (C2817)
0.02 cubic feet (1 folder)

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Article written by Odon Guitar to refute charges of Mr. Peabody that he was an abolitionist. Two copies.

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Odon Guitar Collection, 1836-1906 (C1007)
1.33 cubic feet

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The Guitar collection is comprised of correspondence, military papers, account books and ledgers, and a scrapbook generated by Union Army General Odon Guitar.

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Frederick C. Gunn Papers, 1840s-1986 (K0305)
2.5 c.f.

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The collection contains the papers of the Kansas City architect Frederick C. Gunn. These papers generally consist of personal papers and diaries, family papers relating to Gunn's parents, Major Otis Gunn and Mary Gunn, and papers related to Gunn's architectural business.

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Charles Claude Guthrie Sr. Family Papers, no date (CA4253)
6 cubic feet

Addition of scientific writings and professional and personal correspondence of Charles Claude Guthrie, Sr., Fannie Guthrie, and Richard Emberson. Includes family photographs and negatives, postcards, clippings, and journals. See also C3549.

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Charles Claude Guthrie Sr. Family Papers, 1896-1978 (C3549)
2.8 cubic feet (202 folders)

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The papers of Charles Claude Guthrie, Sr. contain college essays and notes, correspondence, and miscellaneous personal papers of Guthrie. The bulk of the collection is letters written between Guthrie and his mother and sisters living in Columbia and Marthasville, Missouri.

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Hackett Family Papers, 1950s-2010s (CA6705)
1.8 cubic feet (3 audio cassettes)

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Addition of correspondence, audio cassettes, personal and school papers from the Hackett and related families. The bulk of the material contains correspondence and greeting cards sent to Norma Jean Sims from various family members.