Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Board of Managers of the Confederate Home at Higginsville, Missouri; views of the Memorial
Park at the Confederate Home, dated September 22, 1926; and a poem titled “The Little Bronze
Cross,” inscribed to the United Confederate Veterans by Eugenie Clark Clough.
Cite as: Harvey Wallis Salmon Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1472
Samuel, Giles M.
Letterbook, 1822-1830. 1 volume
Mercantile firm of Giles M. and James A. Samuel of Franklin, Missouri.
Series of business letters, mostly addressed to St. Louis concerns, and dealing with the traffic
and commerce along the Missouri River; includes frequent mention of salt shipments from the
Boon's Lick area and information concerning the movements and cargoes of early Missouri
River steamboats.
Cite as: Giles M. Samuel Letterbook, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1473
Sanguinet-Hogan family.
Collection, [1766]; 1779-1851; 1921. 1 folder (10 items)
Biographical information on Ferdinand Henry Sanguinet; copy of concession of land to
Andrew Auguste [Conde], June 2, 1766, translation from Livre Terrien #2; copy of registry of
marriages of Sanguinet family, 1779-1849, from St. Louis Cathedral; journal of Louis Auguste
[Conde] Benoist while in Europe, June-September 1851; genealogical data on Sanguinet, Conde,
and Hogan families.
Cite as: Sanguinet-Hogan Family Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1474
Santa Fe trade collection, [1739]-1908; 1930. 1 box (approximately 200 items); 1 volume
Collection includes clippings regarding Santa Fe Trail and trade; notes dealing with trade or
trail; typewritten journal of Joseph Davis on Survey of the Santa Fe Trail in 1825; map from Fort
Osage to Taos, 1825 (photocopy of original at State Historical Society of Missouri); inventory of
goods for Chihuahua J.H. and Co., November 1, 1831, Santa Fe; series of letters of John
McKnight (typescripts and photostats) regarding receipt of certain goods and business matters in
Santa Fe, April 4, 1839; diary of William R. Pye, Commissioner Department, Army of the West,
Santa Fe to Washington via St. Louis, 1848-1849; broadside proclamation by governor of New
Mexico, June 24, 1889, regarding organization of a state government; extracts from M.M.
Marmaduke regarding Santa Fe trade, notes by G.C. Broadhead; typed copy of journal of Susan
Shelby Magoffin, edited by Stella Drumm, published by Yale University Press, 1926 (original at
Yale University). Mostly typescripts and photostats.
Cite as: Santa Fe Trade Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1475
Sappington-Marmaduke.
Family papers, 1810-1935. 8 boxes; 20 volumes
Dr. John Sappington (1776-1856) was born in Maryland and raised in Tennessee, where he
studied and began practice of medicine. He brought his family to Howard County, Missouri, in
1817, and moved to Saline County, Missouri, in 1819. Dr. Sappington is credited with being the
first doctor to use quinine for the treatment of malaria. He published The Theory and Treatment
of Fevers in 1844. He developed, manufactured and sold Dr. Sappington’s fever pills. Dr.