Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Papers include family genealogical material; articles of co-partnership between Joseph B.
Reed and Hugh M. Mann for the engine building and machine shop business on Carr Street,
1861-1863 (the business was to be known as the Union Iron Works); balance sheets; several
letterheads of the Cairo Iron and Machinery Supply Store and the Cairo Iron Works;
correspondence of Reed regarding the furnishing of his home in Cairo, a couple of letters of
soldier Russell Reed to his family during World War I (he was stationed in the United States and
in France); and World War II letters of Frank B. Reed and R.S. Reed.
Cite as: Joseph B. Reed Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1279
Reedy, William Marion (1863-1920).
Papers, 1895-1950. 6 folders (approximately 100 items)
William Marion Reedy was born in St. Louis in 1863. He was educated in the public schools
and in St. Bridget's parochial school, Christian Brothers College, and St. Louis University. He
went to work in 1880 for the St. Louis Republican. He afterward worked for several local
newspapers and in 1896 took charge of the Mirror. He was married three times. His third wife
was Mrs. Margaret Helen Chambers. He died in 1920 in San Francisco.
Papers include correspondence of Reedy with Albert Bloch in Munich, Germany, regarding
literary rights issues of the day, his personal life, work, etc.; correspondence with Gano Bryan
about Father Sullivan and women's rights (1909); body of collection concerns the death of
Reedy, reminiscences and tributes to Reedy; some issues of Reedy's Mirror and Mirror. Other
correspondents in the collection include Francis A. House, Witter Bynner, Mrs. Anne George
DeMille, Mrs. D.N. Knefler, John L. Hervey, Miss Minnie Lawrence, Charles H. Dennis, Dr. M.
Gabriel Seelig, Mr. Tate, Silas Bent, and W.M. Van der Weide.
Cite as: William Marion Reedy Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1280
Rees, Amos.
Papers, 1827-1884. 2 folders (approximately 80 items)
Papers include deeds and indentures for land situated in Ray, Clay, and Jackson counties,
Missouri, all concerning Amos Rees.
Cite as: Amos Rees Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2567
Reese, David W. (1843-1928).
Journals, 1917-1923. 2 volumes (193 pages)
David W. Reese was born November 1, 1843, in Cardigan Shire, South Wales. He emigrated
to the United States with his parents in 1846, settling in Newark, Ohio. During the Civil War, he
served in Company D, 1st Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. After the war, he moved to Clinton,
Missouri, where he lived until his move to Springfield, Missouri, in 1882. After a brief stay in
Springfield, he moved to West Plains, Missouri, where he engaged in flour milling and banking.
He married Ann Jones at Granville, Ohio, on February 5, 1868. His wife died December 1, 1912.
He then married Sidna B. Simpson on September 17, 1914. David W. Reese died July 10, 1928,
in West Plains, Missouri.
The two journals of David W. Reese include frequent brief entries regarding his expenses
and income. These financial accounts are interspersed with comments on local events in West
Plains, the weather, deaths in the community, and crops and farming. On November 1, 1920,
Reese entered an autobiographical sketch in his journal.