Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

professor at the University of Delaware who was researching the case; and a piece of wood from
Hauptmann’s ladder.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Joseph Jennings Dorn Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0396
Dorsey Family.
Papers, 1849-1878. 2 folders (approximately 30 items)
Edward Worthington Dorsey moved his family from Baltimore to Pike County, Missouri, in
1822.
Collection consists of letters, principally of the Civil War era, mostly written to Susanna
"Ludie" Eleanor Dorsey and her brother Caleb, an officer in the Confederate. Also includes
family genealogy.
Cite as: Dorsey Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2657
Dorsey, Michael Gordon, Father (1921- ).
Family History Sheet, after 1967. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Father Michael Gordon
Dorsey, Creve Coeur, St. Louis County, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: Father Michael Gordon Dorsey Family History Sheet, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A2332
Doubleday, John W.
Letter to M.L. Hallowell & Co., 1847 Feb 13. 1 item
Letter signed John W. Doubleday, Fulton, Missouri, to M.L. Hallowell & Co. [Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania]. Places an order for goods, and asks M.L. Hallowell & Co. to ship the goods in
card of Greely & Gale, St. Louis.
Cite as: John W. Doubleday Letter to M.L. Hallowell & Co., Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A0397
Doud Family.
Papers, 1880s-1936. 3 folders, 1 oversize folder
Menzer Fairchild Doud was born February 29, 1856, in Indiana, and married Etta Herdman
in Jefferson County, Illinois, in 1886. They had three daughters. He worked in publishing in
Kansas City and St. Louis, and served as a member of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture
from 1882 to 1890. He was active in Republican politics, and was a prominent member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died December 26, 1936, at his home, 40 Aberdeen
Place, Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri, and was buried in Mount Vernon, Illinois.
The collection includes a variety of documents of the Doud family including correspondence,
invitations, stock certificates, programs, and circulars. Includes papers relating to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows; the death of Odd Fellows member Richard Randolph in
1915; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904 (St. Louis World’s Fair); and Miss Minnie
Green and the Green family of Mt. Vernon, Illinois.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Doud Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.