Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Anderson, Russella Easton.
Genealogy, no date. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Undated family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society.
Cite as: Russella Easton Anderson Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0035
Andrews, James.
Papers, 1875-1894. 1 box
Col. James Andrews, together with James B. Eads, established the Eads Concession
Company in 1875. One of their largest projects together was a proposal to build a ship railway
across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, circa 1881.
The collection includes correspondence between Andrews and Eads, 1880-1886; printed
addresses of James B. Eads, circa 1880; printed newspaper and journal accounts of construction
of various bridges and ship railways, circa 1884-1885; printed maps and drawings of ship
railways and jetties; material pertaining to the proposed construction of a ship railway across the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec, circa 1881; certificate of incorporation of the Eads Concession Co. by
James B. Eads, James Andrews, etc. in 1875; incorporation papers and by-laws of the Atlantic
and Pacific Ship Railway Construction Company, 1888.
Cite as: James Andrews Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1899
Angelrodt, Ernst Carl.
Papers, 1851-1878. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Ernst Carl von Angelrodt was born in Mulhausen, Germany, in 1799. He married Elisa
Westhoff in 1823. He served as the Baden Consul to St. Louis and was later appointed Consul
General of the Grand Duchy of Baden by the German Emperor William I in 1848. He died in
June 1869 in Germany.
The collection contains letters [German] of Ernst Carl von Angelrodt, U.S. consul at
Karlsruhe, Germany, to his son-in-law Robert Barth, consul and acting consul general, St. Louis,
dated 1851-1878. Also contains undated family genealogy.
Cite as: Ernst Carl Angelrodt Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0036
Angert, Eugene H. (1877-1929).
Papers, 1910-1931. 2 boxes
Eugene Angert was born October 21, 1877, in St. Charles, Missouri. He received an A.B.
from St. Louis University in 1896 and his LL. B. from Harvard in 1899. He practiced law in St.
Louis (1900) and in 1912 he became a member of the law firm James, Hacker, Sullivan and
Angert. He married Miss Vera Giannini of St. Louis in 1912. He also was the director of the First
National Bank, the Securities Investment and the American National Assurance Company. In
1928, he organized the St. Louis Horticulture Society. He died in May 1929 from poisoning
which followed removal of a hair from his nose.
Contains mostly correspondence concerning Angert's speech titled "The Law Is Not a Jealous
Mistress," and acknowledgments of copies of his address about a trip with members of the
American Bar Association to London in 1925. Also contains newsclippings concerning his death.
An addition to these papers consists of typed letters sent to Eugene H. Angert, Jr., thanking him
for forwarding copies of his father's memorial, 1930-1931.
Cite as: Eugene H. Angert Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.