Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Collection contains both family papers and business records. The family papers consist of
autobiographical and biographical accounts, records of personal property, obituaries,
commemorations, and a genealogy of the Meyer family compiled by Eleanore Meyer Burris in
1967. The business records contain documentation of Meyer Brothers Drug Company properties;
business records and correspondence, 1867-1935, which include correspondence with the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, Monsanto Chemical Co., Senoret Chemical Co., Sanitol Co. &
Diamond Match Co. Stock, and the MKT Railway Co.; correspondence of the Meyer Brothers
Mutual Aid Association; wage books; formulae (including ancient publications of old German
remedies); materials relating to specific products (Leeches, "Fly Shake," sugar, Maltese Cross
Olive Oil); advertising matter (labels and sales catalogues, 1896, 1932, and 1936); photographs;
and assorted publications. The collection also includes three scrapbooks relating to both the
family and the business.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Christian F.G. Meyer Family Papers and Business Records, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1039
Meysenburg, Theodore Augustus, Colonel.
Journals, 1858-1874. 5 volumes
Theodore A. Meysenburg was born July 23, 1840, in Flamersheim, near Cologne, Germany,
and came to St. Louis with his family while still a child. He enlisted as a private in the 3rd
Missouri Infantry (Union) in May 1861, and in September was appointed 2nd lieutenant in the
Benton Hussars. In October 1862 he was assigned assistant adjutant general of the 11th Army
Corps. Later in the war he served on the staff of General Franz Sigel in Virginia. Following the
war he returned to St. Louis, where he was a successful iron manufacturer. He died March 29,
1901, in St. Louis.
Two bound journals of chess players and plays, trigonometry and physics; and three Civil
War notebooks of Meysenburg, while serving as assistant adjutant general of the 11th Army
Corps. Notebooks contain daily entries of the movement and operations of the 11th Army Corps
in Virginia from June 1862 to September 1863, while part of the Army of the Potomac, including
accounts of actions during the Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg Campaigns. In
September 1863 the 11th Army Corps was transferred to the Army of the Cumberland.
Meysenburg’s notebooks contain accounts of the actions of the Corps in the Chattanooga
Campaign in October and November 1863. Entries from May to June 1864 were written while
serving as assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Sigel in Virginia, and include an
account of engagement at New Market. Notebooks also include several maps indicating the
positions of the 11th Army Corps in Virginia in 1862 and 1863; map of positions at New Market;
map showing the march of the 11th Army Corps to Knoxville, Tennessee; and map showing the
positions at Chattanooga.
Cite as: Theodore Augustus Meysenburg Journals, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A1040
Michaelis, Wilhelm.
Manual and record book, 1868-1870. 1 box
Manual for farming, forestry, animal husbandry, etc., kept by Wilhelm Michaelis,
Toggenhagen, 1855. The back of the manual contains records of Saline Township, Cooper
County, Missouri, 1867-1870.