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Cite as: James Angas Carr Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0234
Carr, Walter C. (1812-1888).
Carr-Zimmerman family papers, 1780-1911; 1920. 2 boxes
Walter C. Carr was born in Lafayette County, Kentucky. He came to St. Louis when he was
26 and became engaged in the firm of Chiles & Carr, chiefly a hemp trade. He married Stephanie
(Fannie) B. Wescott, February 10, 1846, and had a family of three sons and two daughters. After
the Civil War, he became principal in the firm of Carr & Luke and engaged in a southern order
business in which he did extensive trade for many years. Mr. Carr was selected city auditor and
also appointed one of 100 notaries allowed the city by law, and acted in that capacity until his
death.
Correspondence primarily between Walter C. Carr and his wife and members of the Carr
family. Also includes correspondence of the family of B.W. Zimmerman, and his wife, Nellie
Carr, daughter of Walter and Fannie Carr.
Cite as: Carr-Zimmerman Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0235
Carr, William C. (1783-1851).
Carr-Papin family papers. [1776]-1877. 1 box; 3 oversize folders
The son of Walter Carr, William Chiles Carr was born April 17, 1783, in Albemarle County,
Virginia. He arrived in St. Louis in 1804 at the age of 21 and entered into the practice of law. He
remained in St. Louis only briefly before moving to Ste. Genevieve, where he lived a year before
returning to St. Louis, which then became his permanent home. In 1826, William C. Carr was
appointed judge of the circuit court, the jurisdiction of which included several counties besides
St. Louis, extending west to the Osage River and south and southwest almost to Arkansas. He
resigned his judgeship in 1834, and retired to the private practice of law until his death on March
31, 1851. William C. Carr married Ann Maria Elliott, the daughter of Aaron Elliott of Ste.
Genevieve, on November 17, 1807, and fathered three daughters by her. After her death, Carr
married Dorcas Bent (died 1887), the daughter of Silas Bent (1768-1827), in December 1829.
This marriage produced nine children including Charles Bent Carr (born 1836), who married
Louise Atchison, the daughter of Marie Papin and George W. Atchison. Joseph Marie Papin was
born November 6, 1741, in Montreal, to Joseph and Marguerite Papin. With his family, Papin
was one of the earliest settlers in St. Louis, where he engaged in the fur trade. In 1799, he
married Marie Louise Chouteau (1762-1817), the daughter of Marie Therese Bourgeois
Chouteau and Pierre Laclede, by whom he had seven sons and six daughters. Papin died in 1811.
Joseph M. Papin's children included Pierre Millicour Papin (born 1793), Hypolite Leber Papin
(1787-1842), Marguerite Papin (1781-1808), Marie Louise Papin (born 1785), and Theodore
Dartigny Papin (1799-1849). Theodore D. Papin's daughter Marie (1822-1901) married George
W. Atchison (1817-1851) in 1839. Her daughter Louise Atchison (1840-1915) married Charles
Bent Carr (born 1836), the son of William C. Carr, in 1858, thereby uniting the Carr and Papin
families.
Collection consists of records relating mostly to Judge William C. Carr of St. Louis and the
allied families of Silas Bent and of fur trader Joseph Marie Papin. The papers include records
related to William C. Carr's law practice, namely promissory notes and land papers; assorted
personal and family records of William C. and Dorcas Bent Carr, including numerous records of
slave sales; business records of Silas Bent, Jr., relating to the incorporation in 1872 of the St.