Letter signed Joseph A. Mudd, M.D., Chain of Rocks, Lincoln Co., Mo., to John F. Darby. In a Republican of last August, Darby wrote that Chester Ashley was elected senator from Arkansas in 1847. Another source stated 1844. Which is correct? Inquires about facts and dates regarding David Barton, Alexander Buckner, Henry Geyer, Waldo Johnson, and D.T. Jewett, and lack of an election to succeed Atchison in 1854-1855. [filed in 1878], 1878 Jan 10

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 1

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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.