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Donelan, 2 Brookside, Ladue, St. Louis County, Missouri.
Cite as: Patrick Michael Donelan Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A0394
Doniphan, Alexander W. (1808-1887).
Papers, 1855-1907. 3 folders (approximately 60 items)
Alexander W. Doniphan came to Liberty, Missouri, in 1833 and to St. Louis in 1863. He was
a lawyer by profession and also a political leader.
The collection consists primarily of correspondence with DeWitt Clinton Allen, on political
subjects of the day.
Cite as: Alexander W. Doniphan Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0395
Doolittle, James Rood (1815-1897).
Papers, 1831-1893. 1 folder (approximately 25 items)
James Rood Doolittle was a senator from Wisconsin.
Typed copies of letters to and from J.R. Doolittle on personal and political issues of the day.
Cite as: James Rood Doolittle Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2462
Dopf, John D.
Circular, 1870 Dec 15. 1 item
Circular of John D. Dopf, successor to Durfee, McKillop & Co., real estate and insurance
agent, Rock Port, Atchison County, Missouri, announces that the co-partnership between Aaron
B. Durfee, Malcolm McKillop, A.E. Wyatt, and John D. Dopf under the firm name Durfee,
McKillop & Co. has been dissolved.
Cite as: John D. Dopf Circular, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2353
Dorn, Joseph Jennings.
Papers, 1929-1999. 2 boxes
Joseph Jennings Dorn, son of J.M and Visle (Self) Dorn, was born in 1885 in Dornsville,
Edgefield County, South Carolina. Dorn was a prominent businessman in McCormick, South
Carolina. He was a co-owner of McCormick Manufacturing Company, Dorn Lumber Company,
and president of the Dorn Banking Company. He and his brother, M. Gary Dorn, started the firm
of M.G. and J.J. Dorn, which had lumber manufacturing plants and cotton gins across South
Carolina. Dorn was also elected to the state senate in 1930. He married Nora Cuddy and they had
a daughter, Mabel. Dorn’s lumber company supplied wood that was used to make the ladder that
Bruno Hauptmann used to kidnap Charles Lindbergh’s son in 1932. Dorn testified at
Hauptmann’s trial in 1935. Joseph Jennings Dorn was killed in an automobile accident in 1936.
The collection consists of correspondence, bills, newspaper clippings, magazines,
photographs and other papers regarding Joseph Jennings Dorn’s role in the trial of Bruno
Hauptmann for kidnapping Charles Lindbergh’s baby. The collection includes correspondence of
Arthur G. Koehler, a wood identification expert for the Forest Service; letters from Dorn and his
wife to their daughter while they were in New Jersey for the trial; newspaper clippings and
magazine articles regarding the Hauptmann trial; correspondence from John K. Kelly, a