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ills; transactions concerning the outfitting of the Santa Fe trade; promissory notes; papers
relating to Howard County, including materials regarding runaway slaves, estates, criminal
matters, and a certified list of registered voters of Franklin election district (October 28, 1872);
account books containing notes on mules purchased, expenditures, deposits, and other financial
notes; figures on cattle shipment; a recipe book; some materials relating to the Civil War; several
bound volumes that include two account books of C.L. Elliott in Quincy, Illinois, in partnership
with Robert C. Spencer (after May 1, 1885), consisting of nine separate accounts of varied
business interests, including livestock, grain and produce, real estate, and lumber, 1885-1886;
four account books of Hugh Elliott regarding general store in Boonville (1848), Lyons (1849),
and Estill (1870, 1899-1912), Missouri; a ledger of grocery and general merchandise accounts of
the firm N.G. and J.W. Elliott, in Boonville, Missouri, 1837-1839, with clippings regarding 1844
Howard County elections; and a ledger of mule, horse, and cattle trade business of Elliott and
Smith (Newton G. Elliott and William Smith, partners), Boonville, 1853, with partnership
dissolution agreement, 1854.
Cite as: Newton G. Elliott Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0449
Elliott, Richard Smith (1817- ).
Papers, 1868-1890. 1 box; 12 volumes
Richard Smith Elliott was born in 1817 in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. Initially, he worked in
the newspaper field for several years in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. Appointed Indian agent in
1843, he went overland from St. Louis to accept the position at Council Bluffs, Iowa. He broke
the first prairie sod in Iowa, met William Ashley and Bonneville, and went overland with
Doniphan's expedition at the outbreak of the Mexican War. He later became a real estate
developer in St. Louis and helped establish the community of Kirkwood, Missouri. He also
became the industrial agent of the Kansas Pacific Railway. He survived the Gasconade River
bridge disaster of November 1, 1855, and was author of Notes Taken in Sixty Years (St. Louis: R.
P. Studley & Co., 1883).
The collection includes twelve letterbooks of business letters written while he was industrial
agent for the Kansas Pacific Railway, 1868-1890. Also includes a collection of manuscripts and
manuscript fragments, including some typescript drafts, circa 1875-1880, relating mostly to the
Mississippi River system, with discussion of dredging, bars, jetties, levies, the physics and
hydraulics of the river, and the delta; manuscript fragments on the Galveston Harbor and on the
Charleston Harbor jetties; notes on the properties of water and heat; a manuscript on coal in the
Raton Mountains; fragments on the state of Texas and the old Northwest Territories; and an
essay titled "Statesmanship—From Two Railroad Authorities." Some of these manuscripts
appear to have been drafts for portions of Notes Taken in Sixty Years.
Cite as: Richard Smith Elliott Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2684
Elliott,Thompson Coit (1862- ).
Family History Sheet, after 1915. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Thompson Coit Elliott,
Walla Walla, Washington. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: Thompson Coit Elliott Family History Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A2685