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A0255
Central High School (St. Louis, Missouri).
Collection 1919; 1969-1984. 1 folder; 2 volumes
Collection includes guest book and program from the 50th class reunion of Central High
School, June 12, 1974, with signatures from the 60th reunion, May 30, 1984, and some
newsclippings. Collection also contains the girl graduate book of Gertrude Claris, 1919.
Cite as: Central High School (St. Louis, Missouri) Collection, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A0256
Central Wesleyan College.
Records, 1884-1956. 1 box
The institution was founded by German Methodists as part of a seminary at Quincy, Illinois,
in 1854. In 1864, the school moved to Warrenton, Missouri, where a Methodist orphan and
education institute had been established to care for orphans of Civil War soldiers. Central
Wesleyan was opened in Missouri October 3, 1864. In 1884, the double institution was changed
into the Central Wesleyan College and the Central Wesleyan Orphans Home. The two
institutions have operated together.
Collection contains notes, reports, etc. that were given to the Central Wesleyan College
Board of Trustees, 1919-1920; notes concerning the financial business of the college regarding
trustees meetings and endowment funds; essays concerning the college; and several drafts of a
manuscript history of the college compiled by Theodore Wolff.
Cite as: Central Wesleyan College Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0257
Cerre, Gabriel, 1734-1805.
Papers, 1787-1846. 1 box
Gabriel Cerre was born August 12, 1734, in Montreal, and came to Kaskaskia circa 1755. In
1755 he married Catherine Giard, by whom he had four children. He engaged in the fur trade,
and sent two men, Francois and Joseph Lesier, down the Mississippi River to establish a new
trading post among the Indian tribes dwelling on the west bank. The post afterward became the
town of New Madrid, Missouri. Cerre moved to St. Louis in 1780, and died in 1805.
Collection includes land survey No. 877, A. Chouteau and A. Soulard in right of their wives
under Gabriel Cerre, October 2, 1822 (land is located along the Meramec River); several
biographies of Cerre; and several letters and documents regarding his business.
Some French.
Cite as: Gabriel Cerre Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Certificates collection
Items from the Certificates Collection were transferred to Alphabetical Files (see under
individual’s name) or to the collection in which they originally belonged. (Transferred circa
2001.)
A2595
Chadeayne, Henry Frost (1896- ).
Family History Sheet, 1957 July. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Henry Frost Chadeayne,