Box 1
Contains 118 Results:
Typescript of portion of diary of Dr. F. Jean Baptiste Rohmer [1812-1904] dealing with trip in St. Louis, arriving from New Orleans., 1832
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Typescript copy of “History of St. Louis,” prepared for the St. Louis Lyceum of St. Louis and printed in Illinois Magazine., 1832
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Thomas Ingram, Jr., St. Louis, to John M. Hood. Effect of Indian unrest on St. Louis business., 1832 June 20
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Joseph Burnap, Ottawa, Ill., to Parents, Wilmington, Mass. I will give you a short history of my adventures since I wrote last. I left New Orleans on the 26th of January on the Steamboat “Boonslick” for St. Louis, and in 8 days we arrived at the mouth of the Ohio. We were detained five days because of ice in the Mississippi. Arrived in St. Louis the 13th of February. When I left New Orleans there was considerable cholera; some on the boat after leaving. Passage from Orleans to St. Louis cost me $33. I found St. Louis a handsome and flourishing town and a place of business. I brought letters to J. & C. Walsh of St. Louis, and from Alfred Skinner of Andover to his father who is in the firm of A. & W. Skinner, St. Louis. They are among the most respectable merchants of St. Louis. I made inquiry there into teaching and surveying public lands. There is not much doing in the district over which the Surveyor General at St. Louis has control, which include the states of Missouri and Illinois, and all the public land for which appropriations had been made to survey under contract. In 4 or 5 days after arriving at St. Louis I set out for Jacksonville, Ill., one hundred miles from St. Louis. [Description] Looked into teaching work there and at Carrollton, on my way back to St. Louis, but salaries were so low I engaged at Alton to go as assistant in public land surveying business with Mr. Don Alonzo Spaulding. He has contracted to survey about ten townships of Congress land in the n.e. part of this state. I am to receive $20 per month. Mr. Spaulding lives in Alton, on the east side of the Mississippi, 22 miles above St. Louis and 4 miles above the mouth of the Missouri River. Methods of surveying and prices paid for surveying Congress land and territory we will serve. Description of Ottawa, its rich and productive lands. An old French settlement near here has grown 100 bushels of corn to the acre for the last 100 years. Discussion of wooden clocks, peddlers who have flooded the market with them., 1834 Apr 13
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Reminiscences of St. Louis in 1835 written by George Todd in 1903., 1835
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Letter signed Wm. G. Clark, Abilene, Texas, to Chas. P. Pettus, Secretary of Missouri Historical Society. Letter from 93-year-old man describing his arrival in St. Louis in 1836 from Baltimore at the age of 18. Gives a description of the city in those days., 1846 Sep
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
"St. Louis in 1837," extract from Rev. John A. Clark D.D., Gleanings By the Way. [In Library, MHS], 1837
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
"A few St. Louis recollections of past 70 years," presented to Missouri Historical Society by Michael McEnnis., 1837-1877
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Receipt for merchant tax paid by Wm. Brownell & Co., 1837 Jan 11
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.
Appointment of John M. Krum as Notary Public, Vandalia, Illinois., 1837 May 2
Collection of material pertaining to the history of the city of St. Louis. Includes original documents and letters and numerous articles and newsclippings referring to various aspects of life in St. Louis.