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1950).
Cite as: Philip H. Lenz and Son Realty Company Records, Missouri History Museum Archives,
St. Louis.
A1214
Phillips, Alroy S.
Papers, circa 1914-1950s. 26 boxes
Alroy S. Phillips was chairman of the Workmen's Compensation Commission during the last
two years of the administration of former Governor Baker and early months of Governor
Caulfield's term. He was a state senator from 1911-1915, ran for the Republican nomination for
Supreme Judge in 1922, 1924, and 1928, and was appointed prohibition administrator for
Missouri and Arkansas in 1926. He resigned to become chairman of the Compensation
Commission in January 1927. As first chairman of the Commission, Phillips organized its work.
In 1943-1944, Phillips also served at the Missouri State Constitutional Convention.
A second body of papers concern the revision of the Missouri Constitution; several political
maps, 1943 St. Louis Congressional districts, St. Louis State Representative Districts, 1954, St.
Louis Magistrate districts, 1952 St. Louis Senatorial districts, St. Louis 1859 black population
map, 1950 St. Louis census tracts and reports. Includes papers relating to his work in obtaining
for the state of Missouri its Workmen's Compensation Act.
Cite as: Alroy S. Phillips Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1215
Philpott Family.
Philpott-Bassett family papers, 1832; 1854; 1967. 2 folders (approximately 30 items)
Collection includes genealogy; correspondence of both families with photostats and
originals-Jefferson City to A.M. Philpott Jefferson City to mother in Middle Grove, Missouri,
and Woodson Bassett, in Virginia to family in Middle Grove; photograph of Alexander Martin
Philpott; typescript manuscript by Charles H. Philpott titled “Alexander Martin Philpott: A
Virginia-Born Missourian Who Died In the Gold Rush” (August 1967).
Cite as: Philpott-Bassett Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1217
Picot Family.
Papers, 1844-1866. 2 folders (approximately 50 items)
Papers include checks of Louis G. Picot chiefly drawn on L.A. Benoist and Co.; bank
account of Ann Biddle with Bank of the State of Missouri, 1846; memorandum of Broadway
Hotel specifications, March 21, 1859.
Cite as: Picot Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1945
Piggott Family.
Papers, 1922-1947. 10 items
Collection includes correspondence of Carl W. Veale, Los Angeles, California, with the
Missouri Historical Society, dated 1947, relating to his research on the Piggott and related
families; Missouri Historical Society family history form filled out by Mrs. Cora Jones Heltzell
of St. Louis, which records the descendants of Capt. James Piggott; correspondence of Miss
Alice Wientge, St. Louis, with the Missouri Historical Society, dated 1922, relating to Capt.
James Piggott; and copy of family register of the Piggott, Wood, Lake, Jones, and Heltzell