Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Marsha Christine Nash was born November 27, 1960, to James and Joy Williams. She
graduated from Rosati-Kain High School (St. Louis) and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Nash was the program coordinator at the Missouri Historical Society. She was married to Orey
Nash, Jr., and had a daughter, Erin Mallory Jordan.
The collection consists of the program from Marsha Nash’s funeral held at St. Nicholas
Catholic Church, St. Louis, Missouri, on December 22, 2007.
Cite as: Marsha Nash Funeral Program, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1122
Nash, William.
Papers, 1823-1849. 1 folder (25 pages)
William Nash lived in Dardenne, St. Charles County, Missouri, and later in Fulton, Callaway
County.
The collection consists of photostats from the diary of William Nash. The diary deals with
deaths and marriages in St. Charles and Callaway Counties; mentions many members of the
Ferguson family; speaks of Dr. William C. Lane; and records the stages of the Missouri River.
Ovid Bell of Fulton obtained the original so that this photostat might be made, May 1930.
Cite as: William Nash Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1123
National Education Association. Council for Exceptional Children. Chapter 103 (Saint
Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1958-1981. 2 boxes
This collection consists of the records of Chapter 103 of the Council for Exceptional
Children, National Education Association, and includes correspondence, minutes, reports,
circulars and memoranda, constitutions, and printed matter of both Chapter 103 and the Missouri
Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children, 1958-1981. It also includes papers of the
Missouri Council of Administrators of Special Education, 1976; and the Council for Exceptional
Children High School Project, 1975-1976.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: National Educational Association, Council of Exceptional Children, Chapter 103 (St.
Louis), Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1124
National Guard of Missouri. 1st Regiment Infantry (Saint Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1873-1910. 1 box; 22 volumes
The 1st Regiment Infantry of the National Guard of Missouri was organized with the post–
Civil War revival of the state militia units in 1869. This initial revival did not last very long,
however, and all St. Louis militia units were mustered out of state service on April 21, 1874.
Company A of the 1st Regiment, however, elected to continue its existence as an independent
unit. With the advent of the railroad strikes of 1877 in St. Louis, Company A and two black
units, the Attuck Guards and the Sumner Guards, constituted St. Louis' only militia. A call from
the mayor of St. Louis for volunteers to quell the strikes led to the organization of a number of
additional companies on July 22, 1877. These included the Lafayette Guard, which after the
strike ended, became Company A of the 1st Regiment of the St. Louis Police Reserve on
November 7, 1988. In early 1878, the original Company A and other units formed to organize
the St. Louis National Guard battalion. During the next year, as additional units were added, it
became the 1st Regiment, National Guard of Missouri. On November 21, 1881, the St. Louis