Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

established a law practice in St. Louis. He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson to serve
as the collector of internal revenue at St. Louis, a post he held until 1922. In 1935, he was
appointed a federal judge in the Eastern District of Missouri. For his service to the law and to the
community, he was given the St. Louis Award in 1952. He was the 21st president of the Missouri
Historical Society, 1946-1956.
Papers include family papers, correspondence regarding the Moore, Taylor, Glover, McAfee
families and their genealogies; correspondence between Judge George H. Moore and Floyd C.
Shoemaker of the State Historical Society of Missouri regarding the publication of a journal of
Col. John Glover, 1826-1835.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: George H. Moore Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1094
Moore, Henry Clay.
Papers, 1828-1888. 1 box (approximately 100 items)
Civil engineer.
Papers include information regarding the building of the St. Louis, Lawrence and Denver
Railroad, especially between Pleasant Hill, Missouri, and Lawrence, Kansas. Also includes
information regarding the building in Florida in connection with the Florida Central and
Western, Louisville and Nashville and Pensacola and Atlantic Railroads; letters from B.S.
Henning, president of the Florida Central and Western Railroad; and numerous deeds, mortgages
and tax receipts of Henry C. Moore.
Cite as: Henry Clay Moore Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1095
Moore, Mariam Thiebes.
Collection, 1911-1926. 1 box
Contains four scrapbooks of theatre programs for New York and St. Louis performances,
including notes of Mariam Thiebes Moore. Also includes postcard of the Battleship Missouri.
Cite as: Mariam Thiebes Moore Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2102
Moore, Martha Missouri Bishop (1837-1881).
Journal of the Trip to California (typescript copy), 1859 May 2-Oct 1. 1 volume (70 pages)
Martha Missouri Bishop was born October 18, 1837, in Benton County, Missouri, and
married James Preston Moore in 1858. She died February 7, 1881, in Red Bluff, California.
Typescript copy of Martha Missouri Bishop Moore's overland journey by wagon train from
Missouri to California made with her pioneer husband, others, and 5,000 sheep. Journal includes
accounts of geography, weather, distance traveled each day, and Indian attacks. Typescript was
compiled by Martha Moore's niece Frances Bishop Sweeney in 1934. Also includes photographs,
drawings, maps, and introduction.
Cite as: Martha Missouri Bishop Moore's Journal of the Trip to California, Missouri History
Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1096
Moore, Meredith T.
Papers, 1851-1859. 4 folders (approximately 100 items)
Papers consist primarily of correspondence from Meredith T. Moore in California to Martha