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emainder of the collection relates to Douglas' historical interests and includes correspondence
regarding the holdings of the Missouri Historical Society; research notes, including notes for
Douglas' Manuel Lisa and Thomas James; some of Douglas' manuscript essays and speeches;
genealogical information and clippings on the Douglas family; a biographical sketch of James
Marsh Douglas; and Walter B. Douglas' genealogical notes on early St. Louis families.
Cite as: Walter Bond Douglas Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0402
Douglass Family.
Papers, 1887-1996. 5 folders; 1 oversize folder
The Douglass family was of Scotch origin, descending from the union of Alexander
Douglass and Lady Mary Grey. Four of the children born of this marriage settled in Alexandria,
Virginia. One of these children was Grey Douglass, who married Elizabeth Thomson, niece of
Charles Thomson, secretary of the Continental Congress. One of the sons of Grey and Elizabeth
Thomson Douglass was Alexander Thomson Douglass. Alexander Thomson Douglass removed
his family to St. Louis, where his son John Thomson Douglass established the Douglass Bagging
Company in the 1850s. John Thomson Douglass married Cornelia McPherson in 1847 at
Boonville, Missouri. Their children were Edward Salisbury Douglass, Annie McPherson
Douglass, Sallie Hopkins Douglass, May Douglass, Fannie Lowery Douglass, and Archibald
Grey Douglass.
Papers consist primarily of genealogical information on the Douglass and allied families,
including newsclippings, notes, ancestry charts, correspondence, etc. Collection also includes a
few issues of the Jefferson Barracks Hub newspaper (1942); diplomas of Archibald Grey
Douglass, Jr., from St. Louis Country Day School and Amherst College; a list of the descendants
of Robert and Janet McPherson; a letter of Archibald G. Douglass relating incidents regarding
his boyhood friend Charles Marion Russell; and notes and articles relating to Charles Thomson.
Cite as: Douglass Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2658
Dowling, Anna, Miss (1899- ).
Biographical Data Sheets, 1956-1964. 3 items [formerly Alphabetical File]
Two biographical data sheets and one family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society
filled out by Miss Anna Dowling, 4 Gast Place, St. Louis, Missouri. These sheets include
genealogical data on her family.
Cite as: Miss Anna Dowling Biographical Data Sheets, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A0403
Downey, John ( -1866).
Civil War Papers, 1861-1864. 1 flat storage box; 3 oversize folders
John Downey enlisted as a 2nd lieutenant in Company A, 19th Missouri Infantry (Union), at
St. Louis in August 1861. In January 1862, the 19th Missouri Infantry was consolidated with the
3rd Missouri Infantry. He rose to the rank of captain in the 3rd Missouri Infantry and was
mustered out in November 1864. At the close of the war, he obtained a position as inspector of
streets for the city of St. Louis. He died August 31, 1866, in St. Louis.
Collection contains muster-in and muster-out rolls and two commissions of John Downey;
four muster rolls and other official papers of the 19th Missouri Infantry; eighteen muster rolls
and other official military papers of Company G, 3rd Missouri Infantry, including monthly