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Bryan, Francis Theodore, III.
Biographical Data Sheets, 1954. 1 folder
Biographical data sheets for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Francis Theodore
Bryan, III, and his wife, Marie-Louise Benoist Bryan, 4611 Maryland Ave., St. Louis.
Cite as: Francis Theodore Bryan, III, Biographical Data Sheets, Missouri History Museum, St.
Louis.
A2217
Bryan, John Albury.
Genealogy, 1924; no date. 1 folder
Collection contains two family history sheets for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by
John Albury Bryan and prayer card for Guy Bryan (1846-1924).
Cite as: John Albury Bryan Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0193
Bryan, John Albury.
Notes on historic buildings, no date. 1 box
Notes of John Albury Bryan on the Old St. Louis Courthouse and other historic buildings.
Cite as: John Albury Bryan Notes on Historic Buildings, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A0194
Bryan, John Gano, Dr. (1788-1860).
Biography, no date. 1 box
Dr. John Gano Bryan was born in 1888 at Bryan Crossroads, North Carolina. He married
Eveline McIlvaine in 1826. He became a surgeon with Lieutenant Colonel William H. Ashley's
militia, and was actively engaged in medicine, mining, politics, farming, industrial enterprise,
educational efforts, and social intercourse. He platted and laid out many Missouri towns and was
one of the group that organized the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. He lived in St. Louis at the
time of his death.
Collection contains several copies of an undated, typed manuscript compiled by his grandson
Bryan Obear titled "Sketch of the Life of Dr. John Gano Bryan," which consist of tributes paid to
Dr. Bryan from letters and reminiscences of Dr. Bryan's contemporaries; biographical and
genealogical material concerning the Bryan and McIlvaine families; undated notebooks on
horses, horse breeding, and pedigrees; and photographs of the graves of John McIlvaine and his
wife, Jane Hord.
Cite as: Dr. John Gano Bryan Biography, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0195
Bryan, P. Taylor (1861- ).
Collection, 1813-1868. 1 folder (13 items); 1 oversize folder
P. Taylor Bryan was born October 30, 1861, in St. Louis. His parents were Francis T. and
Edmonia Bryan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1882 and received his law degree
from the St. Louis Law School in 1884. In 1900, he was made senior partner in the law firm of
Bryan and Christie. He was an instructor in "torts and negligence" in the St. Louis Law School
from 1888 until 1902. He married Miss Katherine H. Clark on June 26, 1889.
Collection contains three family letters: letter of John Whitfield (P. Taylor Bryan’s
grandfather), Newbern, North Carolina, to Mr. John H. Bryan, Chapel Hill, dated June 10, 1813,