Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Sappington died in Arrow Rock, Missouri, in 1856. [NOTE: Dr. John Sappington should not be
confused with John Sappington of Sappington, Missouri, whose papers can be found in the
Hawken-Sappington Family Papers.] Meredith Miles Marmaduke (1791-1864) was the son-inlaw
of Dr. John Sappington. Marmaduke moved to Missouri from Virginia and became a
successful Santa Fe trader. He partnered with Erasmus Darwin Sappington (1808-1858), general
merchandiser in St. Helena, Missouri, and Jonesboro, Missouri. Marmaduke served as a county
surveyor, county judge, and was elected as lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1840. He served as
governor of Missouri after the death of Thomas Reynolds in 1844. Marmaduke died in Arrow
Rock in 1864.
Collection contains papers of Dr. John Sappington and Meredith M. Marmaduke.
Correspondence relates to politics, the sales of Dr. Sappington's anti-fever quinine pills, bills of
sale for slaves, the slave patrols (no date, 1821), and the Santa Fe trade. Also includes family
letters; genealogy; accounts, invoices, and daybooks of E.D. Sappington, and Marmaduke &
Sappington, Jonesboro, Missouri; manuscript by John Sappington titled “A Treatise on Fevers
Together with Some Remarks on the Subject of Asiatic Cholera,” published as “The Theory and
Treatment of Fevers,” Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1844. Collection also includes the business records
of Erasmus D. Sappington and Meredith Miles Marmaduke. These records consist of a daybook
of Marmaduke and Co., St. Helena, Missouri (1832-1833); records of Meredith Miles
Marmaduke, which include merchandise invoices made by Marmaduke and Co. (St. Helena)
(May 17, 1832) and by Marmaduke and Sappington of Jonesboro, Missouri (August 1, 1833),
with record of notes received by Marmaduke (1815-1837), and journal of receipts and expenses
at St. Helena and Jonesboro; account books of E.D. Sappington and Company and of
Marmaduke and Sappington, both in Jonesboro, which comprise twelve daybooks (1833-1835)
and three ledgers (1829-1845).
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Sappington-Marmaduke Family Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1476
Saucier, Eugene F.
Castillian Spanish grammar book, 1831. 1 volume
Manuscript grammar book compiled and bound by Eugene F. Saucier.
Spanish.
Cite as: Eugene F. Saucier Castillian Spanish Grammar Book, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1477
Saugrain, Antoine, Dr. (1763-1829).
Saugrain-Michau family papers, 1776-1876. 2 boxes; 1 volume; 2 oversize folders
Antoine Saugrain, physician and chemist, was born in Paris in 1763. Educated in France, he
was sent to America in 1783 to examine the mineralogy of the country and its general natural
history. Saugrain visited Paris in 1887 but returned to America that same year to live with other
emigrants in the new settlement, Gallipolis, Ohio. He married Rosalie Michau in 1793; they had
six children. In 1799, apparently a St. Louis resident, he was appointed surgeon of the military
hospital, and later served as the post surgeon at Fort Bellefontaine. He devoted himself, in St.
Louis, principally to medical practice, botany and chemistry. Dr. Saugrain, a descendent of book
publishers and librarians, was a collector of books; his library (inventory of his estate in 1822
lists 450 volumes) was donated by his grandchildren, Morrison and Mary Elise Pettus, to the