Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Family history sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by John Edward Hobart,
Coffeyville, Kansas. Includes genealogical data on his family.
Cite as: John Edward Hobart Family History Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A0707
Hobson Family.
Genealogy, no date. 3 boxes
Family history and genealogy of the John William Hobson family, the Charles William
Hobson family; the Joab Hobson family; and the John Arlando Hobson family. Also includes
typescript Hobson genealogy titled "Hobson Cousins," 1978; a published genealogical pamphlet;
and a framed photo montage of family members.
Cite as: Hobson Family Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0708
Hockaday Family.
Papers, 1821-1891; no date. 3 folders (approximately 105 items); 3 volumes
Irvine O. Hockaday was the proprietor of Hockaday general store in Fulton, Missouri. Rev.
Nathan Lewis Rice (1807-1887) was an early Presbyterian minister in Kentucky and Missouri,
later pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, writer and polemicist on religions topics.
Papers include family letters of the Hockaday, Rice, Mills and Stephens families; Nathan L.
Rice, John L. Waller correspondence concerning their religious debates. Also includes two
volumes of account books of Hockaday general store (1838-1867); diary (1829-1832) of Nathan
L. Rice, with several undated essays and notes on religious topics. Essays are titled "Church
Government"; "Future Prospects of the Heathen"; "Pastoral Theology"; "Biblical Criticism";
"Polemic Theology"; "Questions on Modern History"; and "Notes on Church History from Dr.
Miller."
Cite as: Hockaday Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0709
Hodges, William Romaine (1840-1921).
Papers, 1887-1920. 1 folder; 1 volume
William Romaine Hodges was born August 23, 1840, in South Hero, Vermont. He moved to
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in 1856, and during the Civil War served as captain of Company B,
32nd Wisconsin Infantry. He was honorably discharged in December 1864, and came to St.
Louis the following year. He served as recorder in the Missouri Commandery of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States from 1885 until his death July 27, 1921, in St.
Louis.
Collection contains one volume of records kept by William Hodges for the Grand Army of
the Republic, the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and the Loyal Legion. Records in this
volume include minutes of the finance committee of the 21st National Encampment, G.A.R.,
held at St. Louis, 1887 (pages 1-8); minutes of members meetings of the Society of the Army of
the Tennessee, held at St. Louis, 1908 (pages 71-97); paid subscriptions list for War Papers,
Volume 1 (pages 171-188); and other financial accounts for these veterans’ organizations.
Collection also contains photocopy of memoirs of Hodges, written circa 1920, which recounts
his experiences while serving in the 32nd Wisconsin Infantry. Memoirs include accounts of the
Battle of Jonesboro, Georgia (pages 8-9), operations against Hood’s army in northern Georgia
(pages 9-12), and affairs in the Savannah Campaign (pages 12-17).