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New Soldiers Database Identifies Missouri’s Military Men; Latest Resource for Civil War The Soldiers Database is the most recent effort by the Missouri State Archives to preserve the records that tell the story of Missouri’s unique heritage, particularly the story of the state during war. Over a half-million Missourians who served in the military from territorial times through World War I are listed in the new comprehensive database created by the Archives. The Soldiers Database includes 576,293 entries for twelve wars and military engagements in which Missouri soldiers took part. These range from such well-known wars as the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I, to the battles that were peculiar to Missouri, including the Heatherly War of 1836, the Mormon War of 1838, and the Iowa (Honey) War of 1839. In addition, a brief summary of each war appears on the website. The bulk of service cards, over 380,000 of them, record the fractured history of our state during the bloodiest of all American wars – the Civil War. The personal information on the service cards found in the database gives human faces to that turbulent time, which began during the antebellum period and continued until Reconstruction. The passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, allowing popular sovereignty in those territories, set the stage for a decade of border warfare that contributed to the outbreak of civil war in 1861. The militia men organized to defend Missouri’s western border against the Kansas “jayhawkers” are identified in the Soldiers Database. Known as the Southwest Expedition, they attempted to scatter the Kansas guerrillas and maintain peace.
Death Records Transferred to the Missouri State Archives For the first sixty years of statehood, there was no requirement that a birth or death be officially recorded. Although an 1883 law authorized the statewide registration of vital records, it was not mandatory and non-compliance forced its repeal in 1893. Finally, in 1909, the General Assembly truly provided for immediate and prompt registration of vital records on a statewide basis; it became effective in 1910. Pursuant to this law, all Missouri births and deaths are reported to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. In the interest of further openness, House Bill 1634, which became effective this past August, made some changes to the vital records law. The legal and physical custody of all death records created
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Brief periods of peace in the late 1850s were interrupted by sporadic bouts of violence until, finally, in April 1861, the deepening sectional crisis over the expansion of slavery erupted into open warfare. In southwest Missouri, the bloody battle at Wilson’s Creek became the second major clash after Bull Run. More than 540 men were killed and over 1600 wounded in the six-hour battle. Information about those men is now readily available in the Soldiers Database, whether they fought for the Union or for the Confederacy. Although major battles in the state ended after Wilson’s Creek, the remainder of the war in Missouri saw frequent bushwhacking activities and violent skirmishes. Military organizations such as the Missouri State Militia (M.S.M.) and the Enrolled Missouri Militia (E.M.M.) were organized to maintain order within the state. About 10,000 men served in the M.S.M., and about 52,000 in the E.M.M. In total, over 109,000 Missouri men served the Union, while some 30,000 fought with the Confederacy. History books record their cumulative efforts, but the Soldiers Database offers a more personal look at these men who died for their cause. The database can be searched by an individual’s name and, a bonus for military historians, by fighting unit. It can also be analyzed by war or conflict. Images of the original service card(s) are linked to most database records, which can be accessed at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/.
according to Missouri law and over fifty years old was transferred to the Missouri State Archives, which immediately began work on making the records more readily available. Presently, there are nearly two million individual certificates of death in this collection, but more will be added each year. Soon, copies of the records may be requested according to the Archives research guidelines. The Archives is currently imaging each death certificate. By spring 2005, the first of those images will be available on the Archives website for research, bringing an unprecedented level of accessibility to these valuable records. The scanning project will begin with the 1910 death records and proceed chronologically. The project is ongoing; scanned records will be available online as each year is completed. Online searches can be done in the following categories: name, date of death, county, and certificate number; links to the original record will be available. Eventually, these death records will join the pre-1910 birth and death records already found online at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/.
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From the State Archivist Friends of the Missouri State Archives The Record is published by the Friends of the Missouri State Archives and is distributed as a benefit to its members. The Friends is a not-forprofit corporation, tax exempt under Section 501 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code, and is supported by memberships and gifts. Please address correspondence to Friends of the Missouri State Archives, P.O. Box 242, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-0242. Visit the Friends on the web http://www.friendsofmsa.org/ The purpose of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives is to render support and assistance to the Missouri State Archives, which was created in 1965 as a division of the Office of the Secretary of State and is the officially designated repository for all state records of permanent value. Its mission is to foster an appreciation of Missouri history and illuminate contemporary public issues by preserving and making available the State’s permanent records to its citizens and their government. Access to collections is provided through the research room which is open to the public: Monday through Wednesday and Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Written research requests are answered by the reference staff within eight weeks. Visit the Archives on the Internet at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/ The Missouri State Archives is closed Sundays, New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
Board of Directors Bob Priddy, President Wade Nash, Vice-President Sandra Walls, Secretary Thomas Holloway, Treasurer Steve Ehlmann William Foley, Ph.D. Louis Gerteis, Ph.D. Charles Kruse Kas Mahfood Elizabeth Pool Sally Sprague
Ann Carter Fleming Lynn Wolf Gentzler Gary Kremer, Ph.D. Hon. Stephen Limbaugh Vicki Meyers Robert Sandfort Hon. Carl Vogel
Ex-officio: Matt Blunt, Secretary of State Kenneth H. Winn, Ph.D., State Archivist Laura Wilson, Archives Staff Liaison e-mail: laura.wilson@sos.mo.gov. Phone: (573)-526-5326 FAX: (573)-526-7333 Greg Olson, Editor and Designer, The Record e-mail: greg.olson@sos.mo.gov Phone: (573)-522-2705 FAX: (573)-526-7333
At the Missouri State Archives we take seriously our responsibility as the steward of our state’s public memory – the area of life in which we come together as a civic community. Each year we welcome thousands of visitors from across America, and, indeed, visitors come from around the world. We are delighted to see each one. To the best of our ability, however, it is our goal to make that trip unnecessary by putting as much history as possible online. With over 150 million pages of records and 65,000 reels of microfilm, it is not possible to put everything on the Internet - not even the records of greatest interest. Still, if you have not done so recently I would encourage you to conduct an online search at http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/, and add to the 6.2 million requests from last year. New material is continuously inserted into older sites, such as our provost marshal database, while military records from the Civil War and other conflicts participated in by Missourians, St. Louis naturalization records (in partnership with the St. Louis Genealogical Society), and twentieth century Missouri death records will be available on-line in the near future. Making information available in a timely way requires help from others. As members of the Friends you are helping right now. The fall season brings our main membership drive - if it is time to renew your membership, please do so. If you know of others who would be interested in our work, share the good news of our accomplishments as stewards of the past as we greatly increase access to Missouri’s historical record. Kenneth H. Winn
Upcoming Programs at the Missouri State Archives November 18, 2004. 7:00 p.m. Barns of Missouri: Storehouses of History, with Howard Wight Marshall December 9, 2004. 7:00 p.m. The Fulton Flash, with Sharon Kinney Hanson January 20, 2005, 7:00 p.m. Heartland History; Essays on the Cultural Heritage of the Central Missouri Region, Volume 3, with Gary Kremer February 17, 2005, 7:00 p.m. Hoecakes, Hambone, and All that Jazz: African American Traditions in Missouri, with Rose Nolan March 17, 2005, Family History Day March 31, 2005, 7:00 p.m. Somewhere in Time: 170 Years of Missouri Corrections, with Mark Schreiber April 21, 2005, 7:00 p.m. George Caleb Bingham, with Paul Nagel May 19, 2005, 7:00 p.m., Green Corn String Band All events are free and open to the public and will be held at the State Information Center, 600 W. Main, Jefferson City, MO
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Archives’ Mapping Project Receives AASLH Award of Merit The American Association of State and Local History (AASLH) has selected the Missouri State Archives and the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Geographic Resources Center (GRC) to receive a prestigious Award of Merit for their Lewis & Clark Historic Landscape Project. The AASLH is a not-for-profit professional organization of individuals and institutions working to preserve and promote history. The “Award of th Merit,” now in its 59 year, is the most prestigious recognition for achievement in the preservation and interpretation of local, state, and regional history the AASLH offers. In preparation for the bicentennial of the Lewis & Clark exploration, the Archives partnered with the GRC for this groundbreaking project. MU cartographer Jim Harlan worked with th the Archives’ early 19 century land records to produce the first accurate rendering of the natural landscape through which the Corps of Discovery passed. In April 2002, early work of the project was recognized in an issue of National Geographic. The project has produced four educational tools: an interactive website, a traveling exhibit, K-12 curriculum set, and a book.
You Have to Be Certifiable to Work at the Missouri State Archives The Missouri State Archives has more certified archivists than any single repository in the country except the National Archives. (The National Archives has seventeen; the Missouri State Archives sixteen). Pictured above are fourteen of the Missouri State Archives’ certified archivists: Seated L to R: Laura Jolley, Joan Feezor, Mary Kay Coker, Michael Everman. Standing L to R: Becky Carlson, Rebekah Bowen, Sandra File, Christyn Edwards, Mary Vogt McIntosh, Gerald Hirsch, Linda Myers, Carolyn Collings, Sandy Hempe, and Jelain Chubb. Not pictured: Shelly Croteau and Patsy Luebbert. This photo, along with an article written by State Archivist Kenneth Winn will appear in the Academy of Certified Archivists News in October. (photo by Greg Olson)
Five-Year Treatment of the Registre d’ Arpentage Completed. The conservators at the Missouri State Archives have the opportunity to work on many unique and fascinating items. Recently, they completed a five-year long treatment of the 200-year-old Registre d’ Arpentage, one of the most important item in the archives’ collection.
The website has received more than 4.1 million requests since its creation in September 2002, and the traveling exhibit has been viewed by over 50,000 Missourians. The AASLH Award of Merit was presented at the AASLH Conference, September 30, in St. Louis, Missouri. More information on the project can be found at: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/projects /lewisandclark_3.asp
The Registre d’ Arpentage includes this survey of property belonging to Daniel Boone and his son Daniel Morgan Boone made in 1800.
The Registre d’ Arpentage is a collection of more than 800 beautifully detailed maps that Antoine Soulard and his assistants drew between 1796 and 1804. The term arpent refers to a French unit of land measurement that is slightly smaller than one acre. These maps document surveys of individual land grants given to citizens living in what was then known as Upper Louisiana by the French and Spanish governments. (continued on page 10)
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FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES ANNUAL MEETING June 12, 2004 The Friends of the Missouri State Archives met for their Annual Meeting at the Westphalia Inn located in Westphalia, Missouri, at 5:30 p.m. on June 12, 2004. The Minutes of the 2003 Annual Meeting taken by Secretary Sandra Walls were printed in the Fall 2003 issue of The Record. Treasurer Tom Holloway presented the financial report. Sandra Walls made the motion to approve the Treasurer’s report. Motion seconded by Karen Winn and approved by the members. The Nominating Committee reported that Sherman Hayes, a member of the Friends Board of Directors since 1995, would not seek another term. Nominations to the Board of Directors were open for discussion. Karen Winn nominated Victoria Myers, Jefferson City, employed by the Missouri Department of Corrections. There were no other nominations from the floor. The motion made to approve the nomination of Victoria Myers to the Board of Directors. The motion seconded and approved by the members. Re-election to the Board of Directors is William Foley, Thomas Holloway, Charles Kruse, and Stephen Limbaugh. Lynn Gentzler made the motion for the renewal slate to be accepted. Barbara Van Ark seconded the motion. The membership approved the motion. State Archivist Kenneth Winn reported that during the past year there were 1,800 attendees at the monthly programs sponsored by the Friends. The map exhibit at the Archives will be on display until May 31, 2005. $150,000.00 in grants were awarded to small historical societies and organizations through the Missouri Historical Records Grant Program. Grants were also given to schoolteachers who present programs on Lewis and Clark and the Corps of
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Discovery. The Archives recently won an AmeriCorps Education award to create a history mentoring program. Death records that are over fifty years old will be moved to the Missouri Archives on August 28, 2004. The legislature has approved plans for a branch of the Missouri State Archives to be located in St. Louis. The St. Louis Genealogical Society has helped the Missouri State Archives prepare 100,000 naturalization records to be placed on line soon. A comprehensive database containing information about military personnel from statehood through WWI will appear shortly. Dr. Winn thanked the Friends of the Missouri State Archives for making it possible to do so many projects. Sally Sprague reported that the National Park Service has asked the Lewis and Clark Docudrama members to attend a signature event in Omaha, Nebraska. Bob Priddy drafted the proclamation given to the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery II at the Turkey Creek Encampment on June 2, 2004. Kenneth Winn announced that the Jonas Viles Award goes to Dr. James Goodrich, former Executive Director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, and a founding member of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives. The Volunteer Award goes to Nay Grigone who donated one-hundred volunteer hours per month since August 2003. Karen Winn made a motion to adjourn the annual meeting. The motion seconded by Kenneth Walls. The membership approved the motion. The 2004 Annual meeting of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives adjourned at 6:00 p.m. Submitted by Sandra L. Walls, Secretary A dinner followed the business meeting. Mr. Christopher Corbett, author of Orphans Preferred: the Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express, was the guest speaker.
47th Missouri Conference on History The forty-seventh annual Missouri Conference on History, sponsored by Northwest Missouri State University, will be held on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville on April 14-15, 2005. Proposals for sessions and papers related to any and all historical topics or eras are welcome. Persons interested in organizing sessions and presenting papers should submit an abstract and a brief curriculum vita to Professor Tom Spencer, Department of History, Northwest Missouri State University, 800 University Drive, Maryville, MO 64468; or via e-mail at tspence@mail.nwmissouri.edu. The deadline for submissions is January 8, 2005. The conference also seeks nominations for its book and article prizes. The book award will be given to the best volume on any historical topic written by a Missouri resident and published in 2004. Articles eligible for nomination must relate to a Missouri history topic and have been published during 2004 (no restriction on the residence of the author). The deadline for nominations is January 8, 2005. Three copies of each book or article should be sent to Dr. Spencer at the above address.
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Left to right: Camping at Twin Springs, Charles Elliot Gill, Dent County musicians, sawmill operation, and four men on a porch. Background photo: Conaway’s thresher.
Charles Elliot Gill was one of the countless amateur photographers who emerged in the 1880s with the advent of simplified cameras and manufactured glass plate negatives. No longer forced to drag their darkrooms and dangerous chemicals around with them, photographers could easily photograph places and events in their own communities that had never been captured on a negative before. Gill spent years documenting life in the Upper Ozarks with his 1906 SEROCO extended view camera and it is because of his love for photography and his strong sense of place that we have this view of a rural lifestyle that in great part no longer exists. Gill was born July 8, 1869, to staunch Methodists, Joseph and Martha Gill. The Gill family settled at the head of the Meramec River in Dent County
where they raised wheat and cattle. Joseph Gill was also a teacher, a county school commissioner, and a State Representative. Reading and music were encouraged in the large Gill family. Charles Gill was less taken with farming and more interested in self-education and to alleviate the boredom of farming, Charles read anything he could lay his hands on. His favorite past time seems to have been escaping into the fantasy world of Youth’s Companion, a popular national journal that encouraged writing, traveling, and hobbies of all kinds, including amateur photography. When Gill was 18 years old he received his first camera, but he did not actively begin documenting life in the Ozarks until he was in his 40s. Prior to this his main preoccupation was traveling. Although he admitted to great homesickness on his first trip west in
1895, he continued traveling and making frequent trips to both coasts. En route, he supported himself with whatever jobs the local economies could provide. Gill never learned to drive. He relied solely on the kindness of people and the Methodist values of hard work and clean living to get by. He made his last trip west in 1947, at the age of 78. Despite his love of travel, Gill always returned home to Dent County and farm life. He was married briefly to Myrtle Hayes in 1917. The couple remained together long enough to have a son, Edward Addison Gill, in 1918. By 1921, however, Myrtle tired of her husband’s roaming and the couple divorced. He never remarried. Instead, when not attending to the farm, he filled his life with reading, writing, and taking pictures. Although he was not a particularly successful farmer, Gill was (continued on page 6)
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Picture This (continued from page 6) raised to appreciate the self-sufficient rural lifestyle. The rituals of farming and rural community activities ordered Gill’s life and became the focal point of what he chose to capture with his camera. His photographs are both documentary and artistic and help to illuminate the Ozarks experience. For more than 30 years Gill used the same camera. He washed his glass plate negatives in a stream behind his house. He grew old in a time of immense change, although he was not particularly eager to embrace change himself. His photographs show how the Ozarks region was affected by the passing of time and how it simultaneously remained a simple and beautiful place. Charles Elliot Gill finally sold the family farm in 1943 and moved to Salem, Missouri. He died on July 15, 1962, at the age of ninety-three. His son Ed Gill, who resides in Salem with his wife Eileen, donated his father’s collection to the Missouri State Archives.
Summer Interns at the Missouri State Archives Top left: Vernon Mitchell, African American History Intern. Above right: Margaret Harmon and Garret Kremer Wright, Interns from Southeast Missouri State University. Above left: Supreme Court of Missouri Interns Rick Lee and Megan Boccardi. (all photos on this page by Greg Olson)
Gary Kremer Named Executive Director of the State Historical Society Former State Archivist and current Friends of the Missouri State Archives board member Gary R. Kremer has been named executive director of the State Historical Society of Missouri. He will also serve as the director of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, a repository of primary source materials operated jointly by the University of Missouri and the Society on the four campuses of the University.
Goodrich Receives the 2004 Jonas Viles Award Above: State Archivist Kenneth H. Winn presents James W. Goodrich with the 2004 Jonas Viles Award for his many years of conspicuous service to the Missouri State Archives and the encouragement of the study of Missouri History. Goodrich retired in June after serving as the executive director of the State Historical Society of Missouri for nineteen years. He also served as a member of the board of directors of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives for several years and worked with the archives on a number of collaborative projects. The Friends also bestowed the Volunteer Award to Nay Grigone who donated one-hundred volunteer hours per month since August 2003.
State Archivist Kenneth H. Winn praised the Society’s selection of Kremer to succeed long-time executive director Jim Goodrich. “The Missouri State Archives has long enjoyed a close working relationship with the State Historical Society,” Winn commented. “I look forward to building on that collaboration as we work together on new and innovative ways to make Missouri’s historical resources available to the state’s people.” Kremer is a member of the Missouri Historic Preservation Advisory Council for the Department of Natural Resources, the board of regents of St. Mary’s Health Center in Jefferson City, and the Historic City of Jefferson, Inc. He assumed his duties as executive director on September 7th.
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DONATIONS TO THE FRIENDS OF THE MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES May-September 2004 GIFTS Everett Bensor, Bellingham, WA Alfred E. Nichols, Indianola, IA Karen O’Leary, Chesterfield Patricia Payton, St. Louis Alice Robinson, Jefferson City Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Sandfort, St. Charles Sally and Hugh Sprague, Jefferson City Kathryn Tetley, Jefferson City
MEMBERS Thomas Hart Benton Memberships$100+ Harold Butzer, Jefferson City Nancy Grant & Mike Rodemeyer, Hartsburg Jake & Anna Lippert, Camdenton Elizabeth Pool, Jefferson City Patricia Sanchez, Oxnard, CA Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Sandfort, St. Charles Contributing Memberships-$50+ Marcia Bennett-Hazelrigg, St. Joseph William F. Berry, Columbia Eugene G. Bushmann, Jefferson City Rebecca Carpenter, Fulton Michael Coleman, Kansas City Nancy Dietrich, Columbia Virginia Laas, Joplin Kas Mahfood, Hartsburg Liz Murphy, Lawson Victoria Myers, Jefferson City J. Connelly Netherton, Ballwin Thelma Peters, Coolidge, AZ Pamela Boyer Porter, Chesterfield G. Mabel Reed, Desloge Jim & Mary Russell, Jefferson City J. Joseph Trower, Jefferson City Basic Memberships-$25 Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN Claudia Baker, Linn William R. & Genevieve L. Barnthouse, Jefferson City Evelyn Borgmeyer, Jefferson City John Bradbury, Rolla Willard M. Braun, Jefferson City Virginia Brinkmann, Jefferson City Byron Buhr, Jefferson City Mark Carroll, Columbia Doris Childs, Albion, MI Beverly D. Crain, Jefferson City Nadia Craver, Jefferson City Bill T. Crawford, Columbia Bill Eddlemen, Cape Girardeau Charles A. Ecklund, Jefferson City John J. Forti, St. Louis Cheryl E. Farris, Kansas City
Newsletter of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives Friends of Arrow Rock, Arrow Rock Dorothy H. Glassner, Jefferson City George Sherman Grazier, Jefferson City Rayma Grohs, Jefferson City Robert and Mary Haake, Jefferson City Richard & Sharon Hanson, Columbia Lori J. Harris-Franklin, Jefferson City Kenneth Hartke, Jefferson City Calvin W. Hawkins, Liberty Myrtle Parker Hergemueller, Dayton, TX Steve Highbarger, Buhl, ID Esther Hill, Jonesburg Christine Hughes, St. Louis Susan Iverson, Aurora, OR Clifton R. Jett, Jefferson City Mr. & Mrs. Whitney E. Kerr, Nelson Tammy Krewson, Winchester Joan Koechig, St. Charles Joyce Loving, Maryland Heights Mathew S. Mancini, St. Louis Carol McArthur, St. Louis Lorraine McGee, Imperial Christian Mentrup, Kansas City Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence Jim Miget, St. Charles Marilyn Miller, Jefferson City Missouri Mansion Preservation, Inc. Jefferson City Vicky Moellenbeck, Troy Marsha Newman, Fenton Karen O’Leary, Chesterfield Irma J. Plaster, California Thomas D. Pawley III, Jefferson City Mary M. Ryan, St. Ann Harvel & Barbara Sanders, Jefferson City Larry & Rita Sanders, Boonville Patricia Schlechte, Jefferson City Gladys M. Schmidt, St. Louis Adolf & Rebecca Schroeder, Columbia Jean P. Schukart, Lake Oswego, OR Jane & Gene Schwab, Jefferson City John & Helen Scruggs, Jefferson City Clarice Shemwell, Jefferson City Mary Ann Smith, Raytown Rayford Thompson, Jefferson City Marlene Vogler, Jefferson City H. Dwight & Rosie Weaver, Eldon Michael A. Wulff, Jefferson City Jeannette Zinkgraf, St. Louis
DONATIONS TO THE MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES January 2004 through June 2004 IMMIGRATION, FAMILY HISTORY AND COUNTY RECORDS Amel, James & Karen: Tol Wood Cemetery: Franklin Township, Miller County, Missouri, by James and Karen Amel.
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Callaway County Public Library: • A Look as Dade County, Missouri, 1905-1985. • Lincoln County Pictorial History Book, Vol. 1, Book 1. • History of Elsberry and Lincoln County 1673-1955. • In Retrospect: A Bicentennial Review of our Historical Heritage. • Festus, Missouri Centennial Celebration. • Tombstone Inscriptions for Richwoods Township, Equality Township, Franklin Township, Glaize Township, Jim Henry Township, Osage Township. • Marriage Records for Morgan County, Books 1-6. • Miller County, Books A, B, C. • 1870 Census for Morgan County. • 1860, 1880 Census for Moniteau County. Cape Girardeau County Archives: • Abstracts and Index of Volume I, II, and III: District of Cape Girardeau, General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, 1805-1809; Court of Common Pleas, 1805-1807; Court of Common Pleas, 1808-1812. • Protokoll Turnverein: Minutes from the Turner Society, Jackson, Missouri 1884-1899. Translation and introduction by Susanne Kranz. • Abstracts and Index of the Docket for the Justices of the Peace, Byrd Township, County of Cape Girardeau, State of Missouri, Vol. I, Docket Book of Zenas Priest, JP 1805-1820, Vol. II, Docket Book of Peter R. Garrett, JP; Frederic T. Overfield, JP; A. H. Brevard, PJ; Jeremiah Ranney, JP, 1828-1839. Vol. III, Docket Book of John W. McGuire, JP; Alfred Wheeler, JP; W. J. Cline, JP, 1837-1841. Crist, Helen Valle: They was Frenchmans: The Vall1e Family Legacy, by Helen Valle Crist. Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph: Directory Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph 2004. Fancher, Paul: The Fancher Family Origins, by Paul Burford Fancher and Allison C. Wallner. Four Rivers Genealogical Society: Cemeteries of Franklin, County, Missouri.
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DONATIONS TO THE MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES IMMIGRATION, FAMILY HISTORY AND COUNTY RECORDS (continued from Page 7) Greene County Archives: Wilson-Brim-Daniel Funeral Home Records: August 18, 1936-May 28-1942. Kalamazoo College: Campbell’s Gazetteer of Missouri (1874), by R. A. Campbell Lee, Patricia Melton: • The Meltons and Bushongs: Westward from Virginia, by Patricia Melton Lee. • The Turner Richardson Family from Franklin county, Virginia, by Patricia Melton Lee and Judith Knight Marshall. Powell, Billie: Thames/Tims Family Association: A Guide to the Thames/Tims Family Website, by the Thames/Tims Family. Robbins, Eugene W.: The Robbins Family of New England, by Eugene W. Robbins. Smith, Neil S.: Linn County, Missouri Marriages, Ca. 18701879, compiled by Neil S. Smith. Stone, Mr. & Mrs. William Paul: Pansy Nelle Gray: Her Gray, Jones, and Allied Families, Vol. I, Paternal Line and Vol. II, Maternal Line. by Ilona Hinrichs Stone. Sullivan, Kathy Gunter: Tryon County Documents 1769-1779: A North Carolina County, by Kathy Gunter Sullivan. Walker, Joann Linebaugh: • Descendants of John Rickey,. • Leinbachs in America: The First Five Generations. both by Joann Linebaugh Walker. Wilham, K: Monroe County, Missouri, Paris Mercury Abstracts: 1844-1871; 1873-1874; 1875-1877, by K. Wilham.
MISSOURI/UNITED STATES HISTORY Elskamp, Fred: St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Jefferson Missouri.
Newsletter of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives Irle, Lisa: Images of American: Warrensburg, Missouri, by Lisa Irle. Greene County Archives: “The Streetcar Strike of 1916-17: Scabs, Conspiricies, and Lawlessnes in Springfield, Missouri.” Mallinson, Jane: Wagon Tracks: Articles form the Santa Fe Trail Association Quarterly, by Jane Mallinson. Morrow, Lynn: History of the Old St. Louis Arsenal, pamphlet published by the Missouri Historical Society. McCall, Kenneth S. A Biography of Joseph Smith Thompson, by Kenneth S. McCall. William H. Taft: Show-me Journalists: the first 200 Years, by William H. Taft. White, David: News of the Plains and Rockies, 1803-1865, 9 volumes, by David A. White.
MILITARY HISTORY Cooper, Ken: Photocopies of correspondence related to the court martial of Privates Commodore P. Cornwell and John W. McCann, Company A, 3rd Regiment of Missouri Mounted Volunteers, and Augustus Jones, U.S. Martial, Missouri District 1830-1835 to Virgil Marcy, Solicitor of the U.S. Treasury. McGhee, Jim: The Battle of Pilot Knob: Staff Ride and Battlefield Tour Guide, by Douglas L. Gifford.
MISCELLANIOUS Jefferson City, Missouri City Directory, 1965. Luebbert, Patsy: 1991 Catalist: Business and Household Digest of Jefferson City, published by Johnson City Directories. Powers Museum: Powers Museum Archival Finding Aid, part 1 (2002). White River Band of the Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians of Missouri and Arkansas: 2002-2003 Annual Report of the White River Band of the Northern Cherokee Tribe of Indians of Missouri and Arkansas
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NEW BOOK ACCESSIONS January 2004-July 2004 IMMIGRATION, FAMILY HISTORY Chancery Court Books: Madison County, Missouri, March 1825-March 1853, published by The Foundation for Historic Preservation German to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports in the 1840s, vol. 2, July 1843-December 1845 and vol. 3, January 1846-October 1846, by Ira A. Glazier. Madison County, Missouri Marriage Books A-E, 1821-1881.
COUNTY RECORD INVENTORIES Clay County, Excelsior Springs City Manager Records Inventory, prepared by Rebekah Bowen. Ray County Recorders Office Inventory, prepared by Rebecca Carlson.
MISSOURI/UNITED STATES HISTORY Don’t Let the Fire Go Out, by Jean Carnahan. Missouri at Sea: Warships with Show-me State Names, by Richard E. Schroeder. Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legacy of the Pony Express, by Christopher Corbett. Peacekeeping on the Plains: Army Operations in Bleeding Kansas, by Tony R. Mullis. Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest, by Robbie Lieberman. William Clark and the Shaping of the West, by Landon Y. Jones. Women in Missouri History: In Search of Power and Influence, edited by LeeAnn Whites, Mary C. Neth, and Gary R Kremer. (continued on page 9)
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RECENT ACCESSIONS January 2004 –June 2004 This accession listing is provided to the research community to advise it of recent Archives accessions of state and local government records. More detailed listings of the Missouri State Archives holdings are available at the Archives facility. Highlights from the accessioned materials from the second six months of 2004 include the papers of Supreme Court Justice Duane Benton; Department of Natural Resources, State Historic Preservation Office records; postcards of the Missouri State Penitentiary ca. 1900; and Circuit and Probate Court case files
LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, AND JUDICIAL BRANCH RECORDS Court of Appeals. Eastern District. 227 cubic ft. Case Files #75683-82854, February 1998 – April 2003. Court of Appeals. Southern District. 121 cubic ft. Case files #23043-26165, June 1999 – March 2004. Court of Appeals. Western District. 170 cubic ft. Case files #60600-61899, October 2001 – September 2002. Department of Conservation. Design for Conservation. 1976. 1 film. Department of Corrections and Human Services. 4 postcards Missouri State Penitentiary postcards, 1900-. Department of Natural Resources. SHPO. 1978-2003. 14 cubic ft. Missouri Historic Bridge Inventory. Missouri Historic Engineering Reports. Missouri Historic American Buildings. Federal Missouri Historic Engineering Reports. Federal Missouri Historic American Buildings. Department of Natural Resources, SHPO. 19962003. 19 cubic ft. National Register Nominations. Adair County – Clark County. HABS/HAER Documentation – Marion County and Fabius. Ethics Commission. Campaign Disclosure Reports. 1987-2000. 18 cubic ft. Campaign Finance Review Board Records. 1978-1994. 4 cubic ft.
Records of the Ethics Commission. 19931998. 10 cubic ft. General Assembly. House Committee Books and Courtesy Resolutions. 9 cubic ft. 92nd GA, 1st session, 2003. Senate Roll Calls and Interim Courtesy Resolutions. 1 cubic ft. 92nd GA, 1st session, 2003. Senator Roseann Bentley. Joint Interim Committee on Education Funding. 2 cubic ft. Records. 2001-2002; Senate Education Committee. Records. 2001-2002. Senator Peter Kinder. Senate Gubernatorial Appointments Committee. 4 cubic ft. Records. 1991-2000. Voucher. 1st General Assembly, 2nd session, 1822. 1 voucher. George Collier is entitled to $49 for sundries furnished to the House. Signed by Henry Geyer, Speaker of the House. Dated from St. Charles on December 19, 1822. Secretary of State. Commission Records. 1992-2003. 11 cubic ft. Declarations of Candidacy. 2002. 0.2 cubic ft. Election Returns and Canvassers Reports. 2003-2004. 2 cubic ft. Governor’s Proclamation. 2004. 1 item. Calling for special election regarding gambling on White River in Rockaway Beach. Publications Division Portraits. 19932003. 5 cubic ft. State Library. 2003-2003. 3.5 cubic ft. Missouri depository documents. Supreme Court of Missouri. Case Files #77093-85228, January 2003. 33 cubic ft. Case Files #69153-84985, September 2002. 30 cubic ft. Papers of Justice Duane Benton, 19912004. 13 cubic ft. Notes and background material on opinions for cases during Justice Benton’s tenure on the bench. State of the Judiciary Address. 2004. 13 pages. Delivered by Ronnie White, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri, during a joint session of the General Assembly on January 14, 2004.
COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL RECORDS Audrain County. Recorder of Deeds. Deeds. December 2002-March 2003. 1 reel mf.
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Bates County. Recorder of Deeds. Index to Deeds. 2003. 1 reel mf. Boone County. Circuit Court. Case Files. 1918-1974. 40 reels mf. Buchanan County. County Clerk. Records. 1909-1963. 9 reels mf. Callaway County. Recorder of Deeds. Index to Deeds. 20012002, 5 reels mf. Miscellaneous Deeds. September – October 2003. Cass County. City of Peculiar. City Clerk. Records. 1965-2001. 8 reels mf. Cedar County. Circuit Court. Naturalization Records. 1893-1927. 1 reel mf. Circuit Court. Records. 1876-2001. 29.5 reels mf. Christian County. Recorder of Deeds. Records. 1865-1994. 20 reels mf. Abstract and Index to Deeds. 1866-1892. 4 reels mf. Index to Deeds. 1889-1930. Clark County. Probate Court. Case Files. 1930-1981. 31 reels mf. Clay County. City of Excelsior Springs. City Manager Records. Inventory. 2003. 1 vol. Clinton County. Recorder of Deeds. Plat Books. 1876, 1918, 1928. 1 reel mf. Cole County. County Clerk. Records. 1826-1987. 10 reels mf. Cooper County. Circuit Court. Case Files. 1846-1849. 10 reels mf. Daviess County. Recorder of Deeds. Surveyors Records. 1823-1843. 1 reel mf. Dekalb County. Probate Court. Case Files. 1859-1984. 12 reels mf. Gasconade County. Circuit Court. Naturalization Records. 1834-1949. 5 reels mf. Circuit Court. Records. June 1842-April 1900. County Clerk. Daybook. 1847-1863. 1 reel mf. Probate Clerk. Case Files. 1877-1922. 5 reels mf. Greene County. Locust Prairie School District. Locust Prairie School District Records. 1908-1927. 1 reel mf. (continued on page 10)
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RECENT ACCESSIONS COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL RECORDS (continued from Page 9) Henry County. County Court Records. 1835-2002. 40 reels mf. Howell County. City of West Plains. City Clerk. Records. 1956-2002. 19 reels mf. Iron County. Collector of Revenue. Judgment Book Delinquent Tax. 1875. 1 reel mf. Probate Court. Inventory and Sale of Estates. 1857-1867. 1 reel mf. Jackson County. Kansas City. City Clerk. Records. 1908-1992. 15 reels mf. Laclede County. Probate Court. Index. 1849-1879; Register. 1956-1969. 2 reels mf. Lafayette County. Probate Court. Case Files. 1820-1970. 36 reels mf. Lawrence County. Recorder of Deeds. Marriages. April 200November 2003, 2 reels mf. Deeds of Trust. January 2003. Montgomery County. Circuit Court. Case Files. 1957-1989. 1 reel mf. Newton County. Probate Court. Case Files. 1865-1943. 18 reels mf. Perry County. Recorder of Deeds. Deeds. 1973-1987. 79 reels mf. Platte County. Circuit Court. Case Files and Index. 18381949. 32 reels mf. Collector of Revenue. Personal Property Taxes. 2001. 7 reels mf. Real Estate Taxes. 2001. Pulaski County. Probate Court. Case Files and Indices. 18431989. 2 reels mf. Randolph County. Probate Court. Case Files and Wills. 18812000. 18 reels mf. Ripley County. Recorder of Deeds. Deeds. 1837-1977. 110 reels mf. Saint Charles County. Collector of Revenue. Land Assessment and Taxes. 1970-1974. 41 reels mf. Saint Louis City. Circuit Court. Records (Criminal Cases). 1865-1900. 34 reels mf. Probate Court. Case File Index (Decedent Cards). 1890-2000. 18 reels mf.
Newsletter of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives Probate Court. Guardianship Case Files. 1876-1900. 43 reels mf. Saint Louis County. Circuit Court. Criminal Case Files. 18651900. 22 reels mf. Circuit Court. Chancery Records. 18111860. 2 reels mf. Probate Court. File Index (Decedent Cards). 1802-1890. 1 reel mf. Probate Court. Guardianship Case Files. 1802-1875. 2 reels mf. Saint Louis County. City of Normandy. City Clerk. Minutes, Ordinances, Resolutions. 1945-2001. 14 reels mf. Sainte Genevieve County. Recorder of Deeds. Deeds. December 1968-July 1969. 1 reel mf. Deed Books. July 1969-July 1970. 2 reels mf. Scotland County. Probate Court. Index. 1891-1912; Inventories and Appraisements. 1866-1975; Register of Embalmers. 1906-1942; Inheritance Judgments. 19281975; Dockets. 1863-1871. 23 reels mf. Webster County. Recorder of Deeds. Deeds. 1855-1969; Marriage. Licenses. 1992-1996; Deeds. 1969-1981. 155 reels mf.
MISCELLANEOUS Richard Conley Collection. 1914-1931. Reconnaissance Survey Soil Map of Missouri. 2 maps Cram’s Superior Reference Atlas of Missouri. George Cram: New York. 1908. 1 vol. First Baptist Church of Perryville. 19252004. 6 reels mf. Landforms of Missouri. MU. 1977. 1 map. Gift of Terry McBride. Jane Mallinson. Wagon Tracks. 2003. 1 vol. Articles from Santa Fe Train Association Quarterly. Dorris Morris Collection. 1890-1940. 7 photographs. Photographs relating to the Duke Diggs family in Jefferson City. Curtis Fletcher Marbut Collection. 19041985. 0.5 cubic ft. Complete Collection resides at WHM-C. MyFamily.com, Inc. 3 CDs. 1930 U.S. Federal Census Index. 1999- . Nell S. Smith. Linn County Marriages. 1870-1879 . 1 vol. Nelson J. Vincent. Abstract summary of Cole County real property. 3 vols. 18291870.
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Treatment of the Registre d’ Arpentage (continued from page 3) One of the first decisions facing the conservators was whether or not to undo the document’s bindings. Though the Registre was bound into two volumes, it was evident that these bindings were not original. In fact, evidence suggested that it had been bound and re-bound several times. These bindings had left several layers of glue, fragments of leather, and even pieces of a feather—perhaps from a quill pen—between the Registre’s pages. Because many pages had been trimmed to different sizes during earlier rebinding efforts, the edges of some of the larger pages had been exposed to damage from tearing and creasing. Some of this damaged had been repaired in the past with tape. In addition, the pages were covered with grime from simply being handled by human hands for two centuries. Removal of the bindings made the treatment of the individual pages easier. Conservators cleaned the document with a combination of natural rubber sponges and vinyl erasers. In the course of the treatment, the staff decided that the grime that had accumulated on the bottom right hand corner of each page should remain intact. Because past users of the Registre handled the volume on those corners, the dirt that remained served as a document of the amount of use that each page had received. The conservators used a variety of tools and organic solvents to remove adhesive left from tape and the glue from the past bindings. Some pages were washed in baths of deionized water and calcium hydroxide. This washed out stains and helped to remove harmful acid from the paper. In the place of tape, torn pages were repaired with Japanese paper and wheat starch paste. Because the ethics of document conservation demand that all treatments be reversible, conservators carefully documented each step of this long process in thorough treatment reports. After the treatment was complete, conservators placed the unbound pages inside folders and boxes made of alkaline buffered cardboard for storage. Now that the treatment is complete, the Registre is being copied digitally. Eventually, the Missouri State Archives plans to make these digital images available to the public on its website.
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Friends Profile: Sally B. Sprague When she joined the Board of Directors of the Friends of the Missouri State Archives in 2002, Sally Sprague brought with her many years of experience in community service. A native of St. Joseph, Missouri, and a graduate of Pine Manor College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Sally moved to Jefferson City 33 years ago when her husband Hugh joined the staff of State Auditor Christopher S. Bond. Upon Bond’s election as Governor, Sally became the Governor’s Mansion executive assistant. In 1977, she joined the staff of University of Missouri President and Mrs. James C. Olson. She is currently the chair of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Capitol Monument Park and Interpretive Site project, which is part of the Special Projects Committee of the City of Jefferson Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Task Force. Sally has served on many other boards and committees within the community. She was the chair of the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Cole County Historical Society in 1990 and co-chaired the Historic Conservation Committee for the Missouri Governor’s Wives Inaugural Ball Gown Collection. In addition, she has chaired the Cole County Historical Society special exhibits and events committee, served on the board of Capital City Council on the Arts, and the Executive Committee of the River Rendezvous Arts and Heritage Festival. In 2000, she served on the City/County Strategic Planning Committee for Arts and Leisure in Jefferson City.
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