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J. Neilson Barry was educated at the Theological Seminary of Virginia and the General
Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained an Episcopal minister and was an
Episcopal priest of the Diocese of Washington, D.C., for many years. He served fifteen years as
a missionary at Palouse and Spokane, Washington, and Baker, Oklahoma. In 1940, he donated to
the Missouri Historical Society the tracings of his study-plats used in analyzing the Lewis and
Clark map of 1814.
The collection includes maps of the Wyoming and Idaho districts, compiled by Barry from
the map attributed to Samuel Lewis, published in the journals of Lewis and Clark in 1814. The
maps also include data from maps of John Colter and other members of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition as well as from maps used by fur traders and members of the Astorian expedition.
The papers also include correspondence of Barry with the Missouri Historical Society
concerning his maps.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: J. Neilson Barry Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1973
Barth, Elenora.
Scrapbook, 1928. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Contains a scrapbook dedicated to Charles Lindbergh titled “Lucky Lindy,” created by
Elenora Barth while she was attending grade 6 at Pestalozzi School. The book contains news
clippings and some text by Barth.
Cite as: Elenora Barth Scrapbook, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0087
Bartholdt, Richard (1855-1932).
Papers, 1855-1937. 4 boxes; 3 volumes; 2 oversize folders
Richard Bartholdt was born November 2, 1855, in Schleiz, Germany. He came to the United
States at the age of 16 and worked as a printer in New York and Philadelphia. He came to St.
Louis in 1875 and worked as a printer for the Courier and the Anzeiger, which were both
German newspapers. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States and returned to
Germany to study law. He returned to St. Louis in 1884 and took charge of the St. Louis Tribune.
He married Miss Cecille Niedner, who was the daughter of Moritz Niedner, a prominent
newspaper publisher from St. Louis and one of the founders of the Associated Press. Mrs. Cecille
Bartholdt died in 1924. Mr. Bartholdt was elected to Congress in 1892 and served eleven
consecutive terms until 1915. He is remembered for making the first speech ever heard in
Congress against prohibition. He also worked for the appropriation that made the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition possible, improvement of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, liberal
immigration laws, and the rebuilding of Jefferson Barracks. In 1899, he attended the first Hague
Peace Conference and then attended the conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union at
Christiania, Norway. In 1903, he invited the group to meet at the World’s Fair in St. Louis in
1904. (The Inter-Parliamentary Union was designed as an organization of representatives of the
peoples of nations.) The University of Jena in Germany conferred the title of "honorary citizen"
on Mr. Bartholdt. He was also president of the St. Louis Board of Education from 1890 to 1892.
He resided at 4066 Flora Place, and died there on March 29, 1932, of pneumonia.
The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence. Also includes a
certificate stating that Bartholdt is a representative of Congress from the state of Missouri, 1892
and 1894; correspondence in relation to the Meritz Niedner case (Mr. Niedner had a contract
with the state of Missouri to publish a daily journal. He died before the contract was completed