Report to Board of Aldermen by a Committee, on a petition referred to the Board by the Commissioners of the North Market. Recites history of proposals for a market in 1829 and an ordinance in 1831. The petition relates to changes in location and hours of the market and related ferry service. It recommends that the petition be denied as inexpedient and impracticable. [filed in n.d.], No date

Item — Box: 5, Folder: 8

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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.