Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

note are records concerning the city design of Oak Park, Illinois, and many smaller Missouri and
southern Illinois communities and some suburban St. Louis communities. Records regarding the
proposed development of Chapel Spring, Illinois, at the site of a proposed southern Illinois
airport that would have served the St. Louis metropolitan area, 1973-1989. Later newsclippings
regarding the long-term successes of Rohrbach's project. Includes 14 rolls of 35 mm color slides.
Cite as: Gerwin K. Rohrbach Business Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1319
Rombauer, Robert Julius (1830-1925).
Papers, 1861-1864. 1 volume; 1 folder
Robert J. Rombauer was born January 10, 1830, in Hungary. He emigrated to the United
States with his family in 1853, eventually settling in St. Louis. He served as lieutenant colonel of
the 1st United States Reserve Corps (3 months) in the summer of 1861 and then as colonel of the
1st United States Reserve Corps. In 1909, he wrote The Union Cause in St. Louis. He died
September 25, 1925, in St. Louis.
Volume includes adjutant's order book of the Turner Hall Detachment of the First Regiment
of the U. S. Missouri Reserve Corps, July 15-24, 1861, and for the Bird's Point Detachment of
the First and Second Regiments, plus the morning reports, on board the steamer G.W. Graham,
and at Camp Lyon, Bird's Point, Missouri, July 30-Aug 12, 1861; copies of Rombauer's letter to
Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1863, asking for a position in the Regular Army and outlining his
previous experience in the Hungarian Army; a copy of Rombauer's memorial to Lincoln
concerning the proper conduct of the war; his illustrated report to John C. Fremont on the siege
of Vicksburg; an annotated and illustrated abstract of Mahan's field fortifications; Rombauer's
notes on the Radical Reform party and his reasons for opposing the election of Lincoln; and
some Spanish grammar exercises.
Some German handscript and some Spanish.
Cite as: Robert Julius Rombauer Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1320
Roos, Lawrence K. (1918- ).
Papers, circa 1962-1974. 165 boxes
Lawrence K. Roos was born in St. Louis on February 1, 1918. He graduated from St. Louis
Country Day School in 1936 and from Yale University in 1940. After serving in the U.S. Army
from 1941 to 1945, he worked for Westheimer and Co., a St. Louis advertising and public
relations firm. In 1946, he was elected to the Missouri legislature, and re-elected in 1948. From
1950 to 1955, he served as the executive vice-president of the Mound City Trust Company. In
1962, Roos was elected St. Louis County supervisor, a position which he held for three
consecutive terms. Roos' administration brought numerous changes to the county and its
governing organization, including home rule, improved infrastructure and police training, and the
addition of several county parks. After his political tenure, Roos was elected executive vicepresident
and a director of First National Bank of St. Louis. Among his various civic and
political positions, Roos served as the chairman of the East-West Gateway Coordinating Council,
a member of the executive committee of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation, a
presidential appointee on the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations,
director and member of the Greater St. Louis United Fund, and president of the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis. In 1967 and 1968, Roos was nominated for the St. Louis Award, and in 1974,
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat named him Man of the Year.
Papers consist of personal correspondence, campaign records, general office files,