Rough draft of letter signed John F. Darby, St. Louis, Missouri, to Samuel Copp, Secretary of the Bellefontaine Cemetery. Replies very heatedly to letter asking for Darby’s resignation as a trustee. Darby refuses and recites his role as an original incorporator of the cemetery association, a director from the beginning, and its first president. Darby persuaded the Board to purchase the land from Mr. Kennett, and contributed several thousand dollars towards the purchase. Recent infirmities have prevented him from attending some meetings. [filed in 1878], 1878 Apr 5

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.