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A0835
Koons Family.
Papers, 1780-1977. 4 boxes
Jennie Koons (1870-1955) was born in Atchison County, Missouri, and grew up on a farm.
After attending high school in northwestern Arkansas, she went to Boston to study at the New
England Conservatory of Music. She returned to the Midwest to teach in country and small town
schools in Missouri and Arkansas in the 1890s. She married Richard St. Clair Steele (1870-
1938), a government clerk, in 1889 and lived at three Indian agencies in northern Oklahoma until
1906. She and her husband bought a farm in 1907 and worked it until 1918. Her daughter Marion
Steele published her mother's letters and journals in a book titled I Remember in 1977.
Correspondence, receipts and miscellany relating to the Koons family in Missouri, Indiana,
and North Carolina; correspondence of Jennie Koons and Richard Steele, 1888-1907 Subjects
discussed in family correspondence include slavery, religion, roads, railroads, politics and real
estate in Missouri; the gold rush, the Civil War, and Quakers. Manuscripts of Jennie Koons'
poetry and prose; typescript manuscript of I Remember (letters of Jennie Koons and Richard St.
Clair Steele, 1888-1907), published by their daughter Marion Steele in 1977; and weaving
patterns used by the Koons family.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Koons Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0836
Koop and Beck (Alton, Illinois).
Ledger, 1838-1840. 1 volume (229 pages)
Accounts of general store.
Cite as: Koop and Beck Ledger, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0837
Kramer, Gerhardt.
Papers, 1977-1991. 1 box
Collection contains typescript (90 pages) interview of Gerhardt Kramer by Charles B.
Hosmer; manuscript essays "The Eugene Field House" (1977) and "The Chatillon-DeMenil
House" (January 31, 1985); and the first chapter of a history of the Landmarks Association of St.
Louis, Inc., titled "Heritage/St. Louis."
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Gerhardt Kramer Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0838
Kraus, Minnie Mueller.
Autograph album, circa 1897. 1 volume
Cite as: Minnie Mueller Kraus autograph album, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0839
Krebs Family.
Papers, 1843-1924. 3 folders (approximately 50 items)
Papers include letters, marriage certificates, and other documents; German-language
document titled “Denkspruch” for Alwina Winkelhaus, 1843; correspondence of Florence