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Includes the original journal and a typescript with handwritten notes and correspondence
relating to the publication of the journal. The journal tells of the company leaving St. Louis in
May of that year and recounts the many incidents of the voyage up the Missouri River, including
the building of Fort Manuel in the Dakota country, and life and adventures at this fort. Includes
an account of the death of Sacagawea, the woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark across the
continent.
See microfilm and Journal of Fur Trading Expedition on the Upper Missouri, 1812-1813 by
John C. Luttig, ed., Stella Drumm.
Cite as: John C. Luttig Journal, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0955
Lyle, Alexander Lacey.
Journal, 1833. 1 volume
Son of Carondelet pioneer Amos Curtis Lyle. Builder of the "Lyle House" in 1842, which
currently stands in Carondelet Park, St. Louis. A Southern sympathizer during the Civil War,
fled the home for his own personal safety, never returning.
Journal of genealogical records extracted from the Lyle family Bible.
Cite as: Alexander Lacey Lyle Journal, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0956
Lyle, Oscar K.
Journals, 1901-1912. 2 volumes
Oscar Kennett Lyle was born January 5, 1839, in St. Louis, Missouri, the sixth of 14 children
of Alexander Lacy Lyle and Caroline Bobb Lyle. Alexander Lacy Lyle worked as a carpenter
and later as a building contractor until 1846, when, after acquiring considerable means, he and
Henry T. Blow entered into the manufacture of white lead and oils in St. Louis. In 1849 George
Collier of St. Louis joined Lyle and Blow in the business, leading to the establishment of the
Collier White Lead and Oil Company, which became a nationally recognized concern. Oscar K.
Lyle’s journals contain entries describing his early years in St. Louis and Macoupin County,
Illinois. By 1859 Oscar had joined his father at the White Lead and Oil Company where he
worked as a clerk. In 1863, Oscar married Emma Walton and the following year the couple had a
daughter, Emma Genevieve Lyle. Emma Walton Lyle died in 1866, and in 1867 Oscar moved to
New Orleans, where, according to his diary, he worked for Charles Slayback and Company,
grain commission merchants. In New Orleans, Lyle fell victim to the yellow fever epidemic of
1868, which he describes in his journal. Oscar returned to St. Louis in 1870, and was employed
as the secretary of the St. Louis Barrel Works. By 1872, Oscar is listed as the company’s
superintendent. Alice C. Moody became Oscar’s second wife in 1874. The couple had no
children of their own, and apparently left St. Louis in 1878.
The two journals, volume one dated June 25, 1901, to September 24, 1901, volume two dated
February 23, 1904, to May 21, 1912, appear to have been written in New York. Inside the cover
of each is a number written in pencil, “25” in volume one and “30” in volume two, suggesting
that at one point there were more similar journals. While the journals are not paginated, there is a
list of contents at the end of volume one. Entries include poetry and prose, and include Lyle’s
recollections of the past as well as entries and musings on subjects contemporary to the time they
were written. Lyle’s interest in genealogy is also apparent in his journals. In 1912 he wrote a
book titled Lyle Family: The Ancestry and Posterity of Matthew, John, Daniel and Samuel Lyle,
Pioneer Settlers in Virginia, which is available in the Missouri History Museum Library. See
also the Alexander Lacey Lyle Journal in the archives.