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Archives, St. Louis.
A1620
Pioneers, The (Saint Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1879-1995. 4 boxes
The Pioneers, organized in 1879 "to promote literary taste and to cultivate general
knowledge," was a study club of Jewish women. Its active membership was limited at different
times to between 30 and 45 women at least 21 years of age who had been residents of St. Louis
for at least a year. Active members must participate in the literary programs on a regular basis by
preparing papers on specific topics. The programs revolve around an annual theme.
Club records including seven volumes of minute books dated 1879-1961; minutes, 1962-
1995 (unbound); minutes include membership lists, programs, and financial records; Pioneers
programs, 1960-1982; material regarding the 100th birthday party of the organization; papers
delivered by Pioneers; and pamphlets, fliers and programs for 1985-1986; program books, 1989-
1995.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: The Pioneers Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1224
Plant, Benjamin, 1794-1876.
Journal, 1818. 1 volume (130 pages)
Resident of New York, apparently unrelated to the Plant family of St. Louis.
Travel journal of young New Yorker through Missouri, 1818.
Cite as: Benjamin Plant Journal, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1223
Plant Family.
George P. Plant Milling Company and Plant family papers, 1797-1927. 3 boxes; 10 volumes
Frederick William Plant (1817-1860) and brother William Marshall Plant (1823-1868), sons
of Samuel Plant (1777-1847) and Delicia Mary Poignand, brothers of George Poignand Plant
(1814-1875), Samuel Plant (1819-1866), and Alfred Plant (1821-1907), all of whom came to St.
Louis from Massachusetts in the 1840s. George Poignand Plant founded Geo. P. Plant and Co.,
proprietors of Franklin Mills and Plant's Flouring Mills, in 1851; company purchased by George
P. Plant Milling Co. in 1883, and sold to Oklahoma and Texas milling interests in 1926.
Frederick William and William Marshall Plant established a tool and seed business in 1845,
succeeded by the Plant Seed Company, Alfred Plant, president.
Personal and business correspondence, ledgers, deeds, business papers, and other data,
concerning George P. Plant Milling Company, St. Louis, its predecessors, Franklin Flour Mills
and Plant & Bros., and the Plant family of St. Louis and Massachusetts. Includes papers of
George Poignand Plant, his brother and partner Samuel Plant, George's son George Janvier Plant
(died 1897), one of Samuel's sons George Hague Plant (born 1847), and Samuel, son of George
Hague Plant. Specific material includes letterbooks and personal account ledgers of Samuel
Plant, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1797, 1800-1848; cashbook of Lancaster Cotton Manufacturing
Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1830-1837; farmer's memoranda book, 1834; George H. Plant
engineering notebook, 1838; family correspondence between branches of the family in St. Louis
and in Pennsylvania and New York; records pertaining to family business activities in addition to
the Milling Company; specifications for First Trinitarian Congregational Church, St. Louis,
1854-1855; Samuel Plant memoranda book, 1864; diaries of Alby Easton Plant, 1881, 1888,