Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter signed John Simonds to Ferd. Kennett. You probably know now of the failure of Page & Bacon and Loker, Renick & Co. and the panic consequent upon that calamity. I say calamity, for although Lucas & S. are greatly benefitted, the fact remains the same. Such failures are a public misfortune. We paid out $260 Saturday, mostly in coin…but by 11 o’clock Monday all excitement has passed and last night at closing our cash was restored. I think new Lucas & Simonds are now the bankers of the west, as Lucas Turner & Co. may soon be of California., 1855 Jan 18
Item — Box: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection comprises papers of the Kennett and Frost families, including notes and receipts of the Kennett, White and Company, circa 1840; letters of D.M. Frost to his wife from Texas in 1852 regarding Indian wars and letters dated 1856 regarding the Sioux War; diary of Edwin Harrison, 1858, which concerns the social life of St. Louis; and Civil War letters of Ferdinand Kennett, Jr. (Confederate) to his parents, 1864. (The Kennett family left Selma Hall and moved to St. Louis during...
Dates:
1855 Jan 18