Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

A0573
Germania Colonization Company.
Papers, 1904-1905. 1 box
The Germania Colonization Company was founded July 25, 1904, with 20 shares of capital
stock at $100 per share. Its purpose was "to procure lands and homes for German colonists or
persons of German extraction or persons speaking and understanding the German language of
any or whatever dialect, either by purchase and sale or as agents . . . to provide and prescribe
rules and regulations for the government of such colony or colonies . . ." This group was
supposed to help German settlers and to create a community for them in Missouri and other parts
of America.
Papers relating to the organization of the company, sale of stock, names of stockholders;
correspondence relating to settlement of immigrants, accounts and receipts, land plats in
Arkansas; articles of association, July 25, 1904; correspondence addressed to Paul Max, who
headed the organization; minute book, March 1904 to August 1905; account book, January to
August 1905; and membership ledger.
Some German handscript.
Cite as: Germania Colonization Company Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0574
Germanistic Society of Saint Louis.
Records, 1926-1935. 1 box
The purpose of the Germanistic Society of St. Louis, founded in 1926, was not only "for the
advancement of friendly relations between scholars from Germany," but to encourage them to
visit St. Louis once they were in America. The Germanistic Society would then pay their
expenses from New York to St. Louis in return for a talk by the dignitary. The society was
dissolved in 1934 because many members were against the politics of the Hitler regime in
Germany.
Records include minutes of meetings, 1926-1934; correspondence, 1926-1935; and list of
members.
Cite as: Germanistic Society of Saint Louis Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A2751
Gibbs, Perla Bowman, Mrs. (1870- ).
Family History Sheet, circa 1930s. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Mrs. Perla Bowman
Gibbs, 835 Oleta Drive, Clayton, St. Louis County, Missouri. Includes genealogical data on the
Bowman family. Insert includes genealogical data on her Funk, Mast, Sheets, Gray, Cary, and
Tankersley family lines.
Cite as: Mrs. Perla Bowman Gibbs Family History Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A2752
Gibson, Arrell Morgan (1921- ).
Biographical Data Sheet, 1959 Aug 3. 1 item [formerly Alphabetical File]
Biographical data sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Arrell Morgan
Gibson, Norman, Oklahoma. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: Arrell Morgan Gibson Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.