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Cite as: James Buchanan Eads Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0428
Eagle Packet Company (St. Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1879-1959. 4 folders (approximately 100 items); 12 volumes
The Eagle Packet Company was a St. Louis steamboat company that moved to St. Louis
from Warsaw, Illinois, in 1874. It was owned and operated by the Leyhe family, namely Henry
W. and William H. Leyhe. Operated Eagle Boat Store Company, the oldest boat store in the
United States, founded in 1837 and owned by the Leyhe family from 1895. The pilot house of
the Golden Eagle in the Missouri Historical Society River Room is from the boat owned by the
Eagle Packet Company. The boat sank in 1947.
The papers include meeting minutes, bills, correspondence, and tickets of the Eagle Packet
Company and Eagle Boat Store; several bound volumes that consist of Henry W. Leyhe’s
practice ledger from commercial college (1879-1887); ledger of records regarding steamboats
Eagle, Josie, Spread Eagle, George Lisle, and Louis Houck (1892-1893); ledger of accounts
regarding Bald Eagle (1889?); logbook of Louis Houck and Eagle on the Mississippi River out
of St. Louis (1890); portage book of Cape Girardeau (1931-1934), William H. Leyhe, ship's
master; cashbook (1930-1931) and portage book of the Golden Eagle, William H. Leyhe, ship's
master; and minute books, ledger, journal, and cashbook of the Eagle Boat Store Company
(1895-1950).
Cite as: Eagle Packet Company Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2674
Eason, Ralph Lee (1903- ).
Family History Sheet, 1951 July 16. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Ralph Lee Eason, 2840
Watson Road, St. Louis, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: Ralph Lee Eason Family History Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0429
Easton, Rufus (1774-1834).
Collection, 1796-1897; [1949-1956]. 1 box; 3 volumes; 1 oversize folder
Rufus Easton was born in Washington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, in 1774. He practiced
law in Rome, New York, and emigrated to St. Louis in the winter of 1803-1804. He was
appointed judge of the Territory of Louisiana by Thomas Jefferson in 1805, and was named first
postmaster for St. Louis in the same year. He had corresponded with Aaron Burr in Burr's
conspiracy with Wilkinson against the government, but denied participation in the plan. In 1814,
Judge Easton was elected a delegate to Congress from the Missouri Territory and in 1821, when
the state was organized, he was appointed attorney general of Missouri. Easton owned the
ground on which Alton, Illinois, is situated and which was named for his son Alton R. Easton.
Collection contains business, political, and personal correspondence and biographical
material about Rufus Easton and his family, including three manuscript law books kept by
Easton while he was reading for the law during the early 1790s; documentation regarding
Easton's early legal career in New York; materials relating to St. Louis politics in the territorial
days, including correspondence relative to the Burr conspiracy; a manuscript of religious and
philosophical writings attributed to Easton in his later years; land documents; and papers relating
to the estate of Rufus Easton. Also includes correspondence of his daughter Mary Easton Sibley
and letters of Eliza Ott to his son Alton R. Easton about Lindenwood College and life in St.