Receipt signed John F. Darby, St. Louis, to executors of Francis A. Chardon, deceased. $50 for professional services rendered to Chardon estate in effecting a settlement with house of P. Chouteau Jr. & Co. and realizing $3,959.16 for said estate, which they had refused to pay or allow or make a settlement for for more than a year. [filed 1849], 1849 Dec 12

Item — Box: 3, Folder: 4

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Scope and Contents

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.