Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Daybook and ledger of Elmwood, Missouri, general merchandise firm.
Cite as: Francisco, Hereford and Co. Account Books, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A0521
Frank Blair Monument Association.
Records, 1879-1885. 2 folders; 4 volumes
Records relating to the planning, construction, and placement of the Gen. Frank P. Blair
statue in Forest Park. Includes correspondence and receipts files (1879-1885); letters received by
John S. Griffin, secretary (1879-1885); account book (1880-1885); journal of proceedings (1880-
1885); and letters sent (1879-1885).
Cite as: Frank Blair Monument Association Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A0522
Franklin, Elkin Leland ( -1932).
Papers, 1867-1953. 2 boxes
William H. Clopton, Confederate veteran and U.S. district attorney, was born in Huntsville,
Alabama. He interrupted his schooling at the outbreak of the Civil War to join the army,
graduated from the University of Virginia in 1869, and moved to St. Louis that same year to
begin his practice. He married Belle Bryan in 1872 (she died in 1893), and they had three
children: Mrs. Elkin Franklin (Emily), Captain W.H. Clopton, Jr., and Dr. Malvern B. Clopton.
Elkin Franklin was an army officer in the 13th U.S. Cavalry; for several years he was head of the
military department of the New Mexico Military Institute. He was killed in a polo accident in
1932.
Letters of the William H. Clopton family, 1867-1941; letters from Elkin Franklin to his wife,
Emily Clopton Franklin, in St. Louis from his posts in Fort Riley, Kansas, El Paso, Texas, and
Oro, Mexico, 1912-1920; letters of Malvern B. and William Clopton (both in military service) to
Emily, 1916-1918; newsclippings, programs, etc. regarding Elkin Franklin, Jr., at Georgetown
Preparatory School and West Point; undated travel diary of daughter Helen Ruth Franklin of her
ocean voyage and travel in England.
Cite as: Elkin Leland Franklin Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0523
Franz, Chester.
Collection, 1800-1920. 1 box; 1 oversize folder
Collection includes group of Kaskaskia accounts of William and Elias Rector with Adrien
Langlois; group of Ste. Genevieve papers, estate of Joseph Tessereau and accounts; Indiana and
Illinois land papers and genealogical data regarding Dr. Dexter Hall Dean; Civil War papers,
muster rolls and correspondence; Missouri and St. Louis business letterheads and cards, receipts,
brochures, souvenir items, advertisements; German passports.
Cite as: Chester Franz Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2479
Franzman, P., Mr.
Membership certificate in the Bund der Freien Gemeinden und Freidenker-Vereine von
Nordamerika, 1915 July 1. 1 item
Membership certificate of Mr. P. Franzman, East Germantown, Indiana, in the Bund der