Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Papers, 1881-1911. 9 boxes
John H. Carroll was born June 27, 1858, in Erie County, New York, and was orphaned at the
age of five. He was adopted by a Quaker family in Ohio, which later sent him to West Point. He
was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880 and the Missouri bar in 1881. He settled in Unionville,
Missouri, and from 1883 to 1889 he was prosecuting attorney of Putnam County. In 1888 and
again in 1900 he was a Missouri delegate to the Democratic National Convention and an
alternate at large to the Democratic National Convention in 1892. In 1890, he was appointed
general attorney for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, which had its headquarters in
St. Louis. In 1917, he moved to Washington, D.C., and during the last year of World War I he
served as assistant to the director general of the railroads, John Barton Payne. He was also the
legal adviser of the Cuban embassy in Washington. He married Miss Priscilla Woodrow of
Lynchburg, Ohio, in 1880. He died in December 1931.
Correspondence, 1884-1902; letterbooks, 1885-1892, 1899-1902; political notebooks, circa
1894-1902; account books, 1881-1902; bankbooks, 1887-1892, 1899-1911; checkbooks, 1897-
1911; canceled checks, deeds, etc., Missouri House and Senate bills, 1895-1897.
Cite as: John Haydock Carroll Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0243
Carroll, John J. "Red" ( -1978).
Papers, 1908-1978. 3 boxes; 1 oversize folder
John J. "Red" Carroll was employed by the United Railways Company of St. Louis and its
successor, St. Louis Public Service Co., for over 40 years. He was a member of the
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Local No. 788.
Collection consists of professional and personal memorabilia and papers, many of which
relate to the St. Louis streetcar industry, especially the United Railways Company of St. Louis
and the St. Louis Public Service Co. It includes employee time books, 1908-1929; timetables,
transfers, operating instructions, etc.; operating and management manuals; programs and other
printed matter; and materials relating to the Employees' Mutual Benefit Association and the
companies' savings and loan plans. Also includes materials of the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Local No. 788, among which can be found
the constitution and by-laws and membership benefits materials; an interview with "Red" Carroll
published in In Transit, the publication of the Amalgamated Transit Union, April 1975; several
issues of the St. Louis Public Service Company newsletter Transit News, 1944-1962; Carroll's
correspondence; newsclippings; invitations; and several commencement programs from St. Louis
schools, including John Burroughs School, Clayton High School, Mary Institute, St. Louis
Country Day School, and Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, 1940s and 1950s.
Inventory to collection in first box.
Cite as: John J. "Red" Carroll Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0244
Carson, Christopher (Kit) (1809-1868).
Carson family papers, 1810-1950. 2 boxes; 10 volumes
Christopher "Kit" Carson was the son of Lindsey Carson of North Carolina, who came west
in the Benjamin Cooper party that arrived in Boonslick in 1810. Lindsey was killed in 1818; his
brother William Carson came to the district a little later and became a Santa Fe trader (1820s),
which he continued until his death in 1853. His nephew Kit Carson joined a Santa Fe caravan in
1826 when he was 16 years old, having run away from his harness-making job. He remained in
the western country to become one of its greatest heroes.