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Lant, John A.
Papers, 1830-1897. 9 folders (approximately 100 items)
John A. Lant was the editor and publisher of the Toledo Sun, 1870-; author of news story
titled "In a Model Penitentiary," New York Star, January 18, 1883.
Papers include correspondence from London on opening an infant school in Illinois, 1830;
1840 draft of letter to Boston Investigator on laboring people; copy of lecture on co-operating
and common property as most effectual remedy for evil; petition of the citizens of Greenpoint,
Brooklyn, New York, titled “Liberty Memorial,” January 1856, to the U.S. Congress requesting
that they prohibit the admission of chattel slavery into new or annexed territores; correspondence
of Lant to family; charges against Lant, 1890-1892, for placing obscene materials in mails;
correspondence of Lant regarding the Moslem religion, 1894-1897; correspondence to Lant from
Bombay and various places in the United States regarding missionary work of the Moslems.
Cite as: John A. Lant Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0878
Latzer, Thomas F.
Not-for-profit organizational records, 1951-1990 (bulk 1966-1990). 28 boxes; 1 volume
Thomas F. Latzer, grandson of Pet., Inc., founder Louis Latzer, joined Pet, Inc., in 1939 after
earning his law degree from Harvard Law School. His initial contribution to the corporation was
the establishment of the corporation's legal department. In 1949, Latzer was appointed assistant
secretary of the board of directors, and in 1954 he became secretary. By 1966 he had achieved
the position of vice president of the board, and it was in this capacity that he served on the boards
of the many charitable organizations represented in this collection.
Collection consists of the board minutes, correspondence, and financial records of several St.
Louis not-for-profit organizations on the boards of which Thomas F. Latzer served. These
organizations include Sophia, Inc., an organization to further the educational opportunities of
urban African-American boys in St. Louis; Consolidated Neighborhood Services, Inc., a United
Way Agency created by the merger of Carver House, Grace Hill Settlement House,
Neighborhood Associations, Neighborhood Health Center, Patch Center, Wesley House, and
Murphy-Blair Housing Corporation; and Goodwill Industries, Inc.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Thomas F. Latzer not-for-profit organizational records, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A0879
Lawrence County (Missouri Territory).
Records, 1815-1830. 3 volumes
The territorial boundaries of Lawrence County include seventeen counties of present-day
southern Missouri and twenty-three counties of present-day northern Arkansas. Lawrence
County was part of the Missouri Territory until 1819 when the Arkansas Territory was created.
The county seat was and is at Donaldsonville, Arkansas.
This collection consists of records of Lawrence County during its territorial days, first as part
of the Missouri Territory, later as part of the Arkansas Territory. The three record books are
certified copies of county record books A and B (1815-1825), and extracts from the probate
record (1827-1830), made from originals in the custody of Lawrence County, Arkansas, for
manuscript collector and southern Missouri historian John R. Hume, March-April 1931. A plat of
Donaldsonville in 1818 is included in the front of the second volume.
Cite as: Lawrence County (Missouri Territory) Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.