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collection. A second series consists of professional correspondence, arranged alphabetically. In
these files, Kessler discusses both ongoing projects and general issues related to his work and to
his personal life. A third series consists of Kessler's office files, and includes interoffice
correspondence and related office files. The fourth series relates to Kessler's participation in
professional associations, and includes files of correspondence that reveal much about his
professional values and attitudes. The final series includes Kessler's personal files.
Some German handscript.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: George E. Kessler Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2259
Killion, June.
Papers, 1961-1996. 4 folders
Papers consist of booklets, flight time tables, magazines, and other materials that document
June Killion’s work as a hostess for Trans World Airlines (TWA).
Finding aid available.
Cite as: June Killion Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2523
King, Brinsmade Mercantile Co. (St. Louis, Missouri).
Meeting minutes, 1895-1922. 3 folders
The King, Brinsmade Mercantile Co. was incorporated in 1895 “to manufacture, buy and sell
millinery, notions & dry goods, and to do a general manufacturing and merchandising business,
and to own, lease and hold such real estate as may be necessary or convenient for the business.”
The company was successively located at 709 & 711 Washington Ave., 1110-1114 Washington
Ave., and 1701 Washington Ave.
The collection includes typescript and mimeograph copies of minutes of the stockholders and
Board of Directors meetings of the King, Brinsmade Mercantile Co. Also includes the
company’s articles of association and by-laws. Company officers included Harry B. King, David
H. King, Hobart Brinsmade, Benj. G. Glover [Benjamin G. Glover], W.H. Stevenson, Chas. E.
Runk [Charles E. Runk], W.B. Homer, Mrs. Helen M. King, Frank W. Crandall, George D.
Wobbe, H.F. Meier, W.H. Watters, J.B. Bradshaw, and Dawson Bradshaw. The directors
meeting dated June 23, 1899, was held at the residence of President H. Brinsmade, 4429 Morgan
Street.
Cite as: King, Brinsmade Mercantile Co. Meeting Minutes, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A2531
King Family.
Papers, 1890-1990. 1 box
Harry Bronson (H.B.) King was born in Medina, Ohio, in 1857. In the 1880s he moved to St.
Louis and entered into business with his father, David H. King, in King-Brinsmade Mercantile
Company, a wholesale millinery manufacturing firm. David H. King died in 1896, and Harry B.
King remained as treasurer of the firm until his retirement in 1927. After a brief marriage to and
divorce from Mildred Crow Romans in 1895, he married Grace Eulalia Wright in 1899. They
had one daughter, Mary Harriet King Coolidge, born in 1900, and one son, Harry Blackford
King, born in 1903. Both married and had children of their own. H.B. King’s mother, Helen M.
Bronson King, died in Rome in 1918 after a lengthy illness. H.B. King died at the home of his