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Boggs, Lilburn W. (1798-1860).
Papers, 1827-1859. 3 folders
Lilburn W. Boggs was born in Kentucky in 1798. He came to Missouri and worked as a
cashier at the Bank of St. Louis prior to 1819. He became prominent in politics and was elected
governor of Missouri in 1836 and held the office for one term.
Papers consist of correspondence dealing with the Indian troubles in Barry County, Missouri,
and other matters of the state. Also contains biographical data on the Boggs family and letters of
James O. Boggs and other members of the family.
Cite as: Lilburn W. Boggs Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0145
Bogy Family.
Rose Mary Bogy collection, 1828-1895. 3 boxes
The papers include approximately 1,000 letters and documents concerning Joseph Bogy
(1806-1881) and other members of the Bogy family. The bulk of the material pertains to the Ste.
Genevieve mercantile firms of Bogy & Lecompte (1823-1841). Remaining material reflects
Joseph Bogy's interest in politics, quarrying, road building, the Bogy Lead Mining Company,
and the construction of routes for the Iron Mountain Railroad and the Chester and Iron Mountain
Railroad. Also includes correspondence with his brother U.S. Senator Lewis Vital Bogy (1813-
1877) and correspondence relating to the seizure by the Mexican government of his son Joseph
V. Bogy in 1855 at La Paz, California, and Joseph Bogy's subsequent claim for $50,000 against
that government.
Some French.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Rose Mary Bogy Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0146
Bogy, Lewis Vital (1813-1877).
Bogy family papers, 1795-1929; 1960-1961. 2 boxes
Lewis Vital Bogy (1813-1877) was born April 13, 1813, at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. He left
Ste. Genevieve in 1832 to study law in the office of Judge Pope of Kaskaskia, and began the
practice of law in St. Louis in 1835. Lewis married Pelagie Pratte in 1836. They had 13 children,
but only three survived childhood: Joseph, Celeste, and Josephine. He was elected to the
Missouri legislature in 1840 and again in 1854. In 1849, Bogy was the anti-Benton Democratic
candidate for the legislature but was defeated. He was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs
in 1867, but not being confirmed by the Senate, retired from the office and returned to his law
practice. In 1873, he was elected to the United States Senate where he served until his death in
1877. Lewis V. Bogy, journalist, author, and son of Joseph Bogy, banker and railroad man, and
grandson and namesake of Lewis Vital Bogy, worked on St. Louis and New Orleans newspapers,
and at one time owned a newspaper in Waterbury, Connecticut. As a young man, he worked in
the Pension Bureau in Washington and subsequently wrote a novel, In Office, which told of the
corruption in the office. The officials were offended and he was discharged. He later wrote
another novel, A Common Man. During World War I he served abroad with the Red Cross. He
returned to St. Louis after the war, but moved back to Europe in 1926. In 1934, he married Paula
Loschitz Demeter of Budapest, his first marriage having ended in divorce. He died December 18,
1940, in Budapest.
The collection contains biographical and genealogical papers of the Bogy, Bolduc, Valle, and
Pratte families of St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve, comprised of correspondence, deeds, accounts,