Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Circular, no date. 1 item
Circular provides directions for installing Morgan tire pumps for Ford cars. A.L. Bedel,
distributor, St. Louis, Missouri.
Cite as: Morgan Tire Pump Circular, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1098
Morley Family.
Papers, 1899-1970. 2 folders
Papers consist primarily of materials regarding reunions and anniversaries of Central High
School (St. Louis), including reunion programs, photographs, and an alumni list. Also includes a
few documents regarding Hampton H. Bentz; receipt for burials of George C. Vordtriede and
Louis Vordtriede; two certificates of William H. Morley; and photographs of William Morley.
Cite as: Morley Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1099
Mormons collection, 1813-1970. 6 folders (approximately 100 items)
Collection contains contemporary copy of testimony of Mormon participants in Davies
County, Missouri, war, 1838; several letters of Matthew Gant, St. Louis, 1844-1849, to relatives
in England describing his new life in the United States, St. Louis, with mentions of cloth
merchandising, Mormons; letters of Irene Hascall Pomeroy to her mother, Mrs. Ursulia Hascall,
and others, 1845-1854, describing Mormon experiences in Nauvoo, Illinois, and then over the
western trail with winter quarters at the Camp of Israel and finally the establishment of their
home at Salt Lake City (typed copies by C. Cadwith Waynes); various letters regarding life of
Mormons and Salt Lake City; clippings regarding Mormonism. (The letters of Irene Hascall
Pomeroy were published in the Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 25 (four-part series),
January-October 1957.)
Cite as: Mormons Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1100
Morrison family.
Papers, 1792-1943. 2 boxes
William, Robert, Jesse, and James Morrison, as merchants, settled in western territory:
William and Robert in Kaskaskia, Illinois; James and Jesse in St. Charles. The latter dissolved
partnership in 1827 and Jesse moved to Galena, Illinois. William M. Morrison, son of James,
was a prominent St. Louis businessman. He married Mary Bissell, daughter of Lewis Bissell,
and, after her death, he married Sarah Catherine (Kate) Swinney (1854). She died in 1861; he
died in 1865.
Genealogy of the Morrison, Swinney, Fuller and related families. Collection includes original
land grants, surveys and deeds pertaining to St. Charles and a few from Portage des Sioux. Also
includes letters (1795-1840) of William, Robert and twin brothers Jesse and James Morrison
relating to land claims, Indian and frontier trade, protection of Portage des Sioux;
correspondence of W.D. Swinney family (circa 1843-1860s), Glasgow, Missouri, and of William
M. Morrison to his future wife, Kate Swinney (circa 1853-1854). Persons and subjects
mentioned include George W. Atchison, Hiram W. Baber, Joseph Beauchamp, Baptiste Caloutre,
Baptiste Greza dit Capitaine, Pierre Clermont, Paul Cornoyer, Joseph Couder, Thomas W.
Cunningham, Dardenne River, Baptiste D'eau, Uriah J. Devore, Jean Baptiste Dube, Francois
Duquette, Bazil Hebert, Francis Honore, Theodore Hunt, Francois Jourdain, Pierre Vincent dit
Larbre, Antoine Lafranchise, Hurbin Lafranchise, Marianne Lafranchise, Pierre LeVilebeouf die