Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Cite as: Missouri-Vicksburg National Military Park Commissioners' Minute Book, Missouri
History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Missouri Volunteers. Parson's Division.
Register of officers, 1862-1865. 1 volume
Transferred to Mosby Monroe Parsons Papers.
A1073
Missouri Welfare League (Saint Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1919-1950. 34 boxes
The Missouri Welfare League was organized March 18, 1920, to help in the prevention of
delinquency and in reducing crime in Missouri. The league hoped to accomplish this through
education, service in and for correctional institutions, and political legislation. A major goal of
the league was to improve the treatment of prisoners in local and state institutions. One of the
founders and leaders of the league was Mrs. Carol Bates. Under her leadership the league helped
in the creation of the State Board of Probation and Parole, the establishment of Algoa Farms
Intermediate Reformatory, inclusion of provisions abolishing the fee system for law enforcement
officers in the new Missouri constitution, and the establishment of a modern parole system. Mrs.
Bates and the league worked for legislation authorizing the appointment of parole officers to
serve the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction and for the improvement in the bill creating the
State Department of Corrections. She retired from the organization in 1949.
The collection includes correspondence of the organization; minutes of the board of
directors; reports issued by the organization; information concerning legislation supported by the
league; and information on public institutions in the state.
Cite as: Missouri Welfare League Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1085
Mitchell Family.
Papers, 1777-1909. 4 folders (approximately 200 items)
Papers include genealogical material on the Fisher, Hopkins, Eliot, Carr, and allied families;
correspondence, orders regarding sutlership and its administration at Fort Union, 1861-1873;
correspondence regarding William H. Moore, Moore and Co., Mitchel and Co., 1860-1877,
regarding their sutlership.
Cite as: Mitchell Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1086
Mohrhardt, Francis.
Record book, 1842-1843. 1 volume (155 pages)
Francis Mohrhardt (listed variously as Franz Mohrhardt, Francis Mohrhart, and Francis
Mohart) was a St. Louis engineer, employed at one point in the office of the city engineer.
This volume is a record of elevations, at various points in St. Louis, and includes street
grades and surveys.
Cite as: Francis Mohrhardt Record Book, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2296
Molesworth, L.W.
Letter to mother, 1876 July 9. 2 items
Letter signed L.W. Molesworth, on the stationery of the Crawford House, Colorado Springs,