Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Biographical data sheets and family history sheets for the Missouri Historical Society filled
out by John William Fries and his wife, Clara Louis Fries (nee Ruester), 106 Frontenac Forest,
St. Louis County, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on the Fries and Ruester families.
Cite as: John William Fries Biographical Data Sheets, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
Frissell Family.
Papers, 1809-1917. approximately 150 items
Transferred to Willard Frissell Papers.
A0535
Frissell, Willard ( -circa 1880s).
Papers, 1789-1929. 5 boxes
As a young teacher, Willard Frissell came from the Berkshires in Massachusetts, and lived on
a Spanish land grant in the Big River Wilderness (western part of Jefferson County, Missouri).
He married the niece of Austin Moses, Ann Maria Austin (1808-1906), in 1831 and raised a
family of nine children. On February 22, 1842, he was appointed school commissioner of
Jefferson County. In later years he was a real estate agent in DeSoto, Missouri. In 1871, the
family ranch was sold to a lead mining company, and the proceeds were invested in various
DeSoto property. He was prominently connected with various enterprises in DeSoto's early
history, and was a stockholder in the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad. He died sometime in
the 1880s.
Collection includes business, legal, and family correspondence; tax receipts; public land
grants; deeds; and Frissell's account books, 1861-1882. Among the business papers is
correspondence with Joseph Charless, William T. Blow, and L.L. LaBourgeois. Also contains a
minute book of the Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, Missouri, 1870-1878, 1881, 1901; two
printed addresses (1868) of Charles D. Drake; correspondence of Mrs. Drake from Washington,
D.C. (1874-1891), to family members, with frequent mentions of Mr. Drake.
Some French.
Cite as: Willard Frissell Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2728
Fristoe, John Wallace (1858- ).
Family History Sheet, early 1900s. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by John Wallace Fristoe,
18 Washington Terrace, St. Louis, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: John Wallace Fristoe Family History Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
Fritch, Letitia. Travel Diary, 1892.
See Journals and Diaries Collection, 1892
A2729
Fritsche, Frances Meier, Mrs. (1902-1964).
Biographical Data Sheet, 1964 Dec 3. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Biographical data sheet for the Missouri Historical Society regarding Mrs. Frances Meier
Fritsche, filled out by her widower, Charles E. Fritsche. Includes genealogical data on her
family.