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1874, regarding settling of Saline County.
Cite as: Saline County, Missouri, Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1470
Saline County, Missouri, Public Administrator.
Records, 1895-1904. 1 volume
Public administrator's ledger of fees, public auctions, estates settled, etc., in Saline County,
Missouri, 1895-1904.
Cite as: Saline County, Missouri, Public Administrator's Records, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A2446
Sallenbach, H.L, Mr.
Certificate of honorary membership in the World’s Fair Building Committee of the
Travelers Protective Association of America, 1902 Jan 4. 1 item
Certificate granted to Mr. H.L. Sallenbach [Henry L. Sallenbach], treasurer of the January
Shoe Co., St. Louis, Missouri, January 4, 1902.
Cite as: H.L. Sallenbach Certificate of Honorary Membership in the World’s Fair Building
Committee of the Travelers Protective Association of America, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1471
Salmon, Harvey Wallis (1839-1927).
Papers, 1861-1926. 1 folder (approximately 35 items)
Harvey W. Salmon was born January 26, 1839, in Greenville, South Carolina. In January
1840 his family moved to Versailles, Morgan County, Missouri. He enlisted in the Missouri
State Guard in May 1861, and was captured in December 1861 in Versailles while on recruiting
duty. He was held in several federal prisons before being exchanged. He then enlisted in
Parson’s Brigade, Price’s army, and served until the end of the war. Following the war he was
prominent in the Democratic party in Missouri. He was one of the founders of the Confederate
Home at Higginsville and he served as state treasurer from 1873 to 1874. He died April 27, 1927,
in St. Louis.
Collection contains several official military papers of Harvey Salmon, including commission,
resignation, parole, and assignments to duty, and papers regarding his war service; undated
postwar roster of Morgan County men who served in Company F, 1st Cavalry, 6th Division,
Missouri State Guard; typescript copy of letter from resident of Boonville, Missouri, dated
December 1, 1863, which discusses upheaval in central Missouri, including mentions of
individuals and families, mostly from Benton County, Missouri, who have been uprooted by the
war; newspaper clipping titled “Confederate Days in St. Louis,” dated May 17, 1903, which
includes account of the escape of three prisoners—Colonel Edward Shands, Captain Hampton L.
Boone, and Captain John C. Carlin—from St. Louis prisons; two letters of George M. Jones to
Harvey Salmon, dated 1907 and 1911, regarding the transfer of the Confederate Cemetery at
Springfield, Missouri, to the government; letter of I.M. Chism to Harvey Salmon, dated Albany,
Texas, February 12, 1911, which recalls his service in the war; typescript copy of letter of
Harvey Salmon to Mrs. W.G. Moore, dated October 9, 1913, which recounts the attempted
escape of Captain Hampton L. Boone from Myrtle Street Prison in St. Louis; typescript copy of
letter of Joseph Macauley Lowe to Governor Arthur M. Hyde, dated June 17, 1921, which states
his service record in the Confederate army and his eligibility for the office of president of the