Letter signed J.A. Wherry, Office of the City Register, St. Louis, to John F. Darby, Mayor of St. Louis. Gives a list of men elected by the Board of Aldermen to serve for the ensuing six months on the Night Watch and asks for Darby’s approval of their names. Darby’s approval of all but Theophilus Merckle is affixed. Persons mentioned include John Atkinson, Pierre Tournot, Thomas H. Maddox, Matthew Owen, Robert Lowther, John Louis Tyon, John H. Lyons, Amasa Wetherice, Patrick Lowler, James Love, and John Murphy., 1837 Oct 23

Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7

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From the Collection:

This collection consists largely of the papers of John F. Darby and his wife Mary F. Darby, and relates mostly to the political, social, and business history of St. Louis. The papers also include family correspondence with relatives in North Carolina, Kentucky, and Missouri, and correspondence regarding legal and business matters. Of special note are the minute books of the Jefferson Society and the St. Louis Debating Club (1827-1828), both regional debating societies of which Darby was a member; letters of Mary F. Darby; correspondence with Montgomery Blair, William T. Sherman, and George Caleb Bingham; and fragments of a history of the Mormons by John Corrill, dated 1839.