Box 2
Contains 146 Results:
Letter of L.A. Holbrock, St. Louis, to “Mr. Uncle and Mrs. Aunt.” Description of travel by stage from Tarlton to Cincinnati and by steamer from Cincinnati to St. Louis. Writer’s visits to Germans in St. Louis. He has been lodging with a German, Biermann, for $8 per month. “I have a good opportunity to learn the English language…It is also an advantage that I know French.”, 1844 Dec 18
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 of L.A. Holbrock, St. Louis, to “Mr. Uncle and Mrs. Aunt.” Circumstances of the writer’s going into partnership with two others in a starch manufacturing business. He had thought of buying a paper mill, but knew of another German who lost his investment in one. Writer quotes shipping prices of several products down the river from Iowa or Wisconsin. “We have two new employees who receive 8 dollars a month and their keep.” Individuals mentioned: Schnieding[?], Hurlbaum[?], Mr. Biermann, Minsch[?], Mirster, Schroder, L. Schwarz, and Ewald Hertle[?]. Places mentioned: Cincinnati, Tarlton, Chillicothe, Hillsboro, Louisville, and Portland., 1845 Aug 6
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 of news clipping from St. Louis Weekly Reveille, lecture by Edward Bates upon origin, history, and prospects of St. Louis, 1845 Feb 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.
Typescript of news clipping from Reveille regarding preparations for today’s race at Prairie House race track. Barbecues at Manchester, Creve Coeur Lake, St. Cir’s near Florissant, excursions, etc., in honor of the event. Photocopy of Post-Dispatch newspaper clipping regarding Prairie House., 1845 July 7
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.
Regulations, printed in French and English, of the Heads of Families Ball, to take place at St. Louis Ball Room., 1845 Mar 26
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.
Deeds of Michael Gorman, his wife, and Elizabeth A. Maddox, Frances Pigott to John T. Pigott; John T. Pigott to Dominique Stock; and Dominique Stock deed to Wilhelm Keill. All properties in city of St. Louis. [Gift of Otto Leffler, St. Louis, June, 1947.] , 1845 May 19-1847 Nov 19
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 J.F. Sowell, St. Louis, to Mrs. Elizabeth M. Sowell. I am enjoying fine health, have an excellent appetite, a pleasant boarding house, and am succeeding well as a lecturer. My students say they are learning more chemistry than was ever taught here before. Everything is still frozen here. The river is “frozen over as tight as a drum, and the ice is very firm and thick, so much so that horses and wagons can pass over on it.” One curious arrangement was a table set out and a man offering hot toddy, hot coffee, and Tom and Jerry for sale. The citizens say it is unusual to have the river closed and look upon it as a novelty as I do. I went to the Catholic Cathedral to witness their worship. To my mind it presented quite a contract to the simple faith of the Christian “humbly trusting in the merits of the meek and lowly savior.” Family news. Individuals mentioned: Oliver, Dr. Maclin, Elizabeth, John, Christ, Jimmy, Billy, Mary, Ben, Maggy, Ziffy, and Presby. Places mentioned: Illinois, Alabama, and Athens. [Purchased from Symmachus Trading Co., Boston, Mass., September 1945, $2.65.], 1845 Dec 14
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.
Eleven letter signed Elizabeth Gowen Sargent, St. Louis, to family in Kennebunk, Me. Chatty letters, description of business of her husband Haven, with candles, lard; discussion of town of St. Louis, persons, events [return of soldiers from Mexican War, visit of Henry Clay], parties, residing in boarding houses with their bedbugs and mosquitos, their food, good and bad, tenants, etc. , 1846-1847
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 S.R. Shrader, St. Louis, Mo., to Colby Shrader, Brownsborough, Oldham County, Ky. I find we can sell only a small lot of bandy in this place--a good article could be sold for $1.25 not more. Therefore, if you can sell what you have in Louisville at anything like a fair price I would do so. Tell John that it is important that the negroes that I have here should be sent off and there is danger in leaving them here much longer--I am getting nothing for these services--tell him delay is dangerous. Individuals mentioned: Heffeman. Places mentioned: New Orleans, Louisville, and Liberty., 1846 Jan 12
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 Anson F. Ashley, St. Louis, to Father. Details of journey to St. Louis by steamboat. When we arrived at Cincinnati there was about 140 soldiers came on board bound for Texas and a greater number cut throats I never saw before in an equal no. of people unless their countenances and actions strongly belied them. They got drunk and got to fighting among themselves, officers and all. They threatened to take our berths away from us but did not try it. They slept on the cabin floor. They got off at Louisville and I think that none were sorry to see them leave. [Copy], 1846 June 25
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.