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Thomas and Susan Smith and their daughters Elsie and Ina, 1884-1816. Correspondence,
receipts, and newsclippings, 1861-1900.
Cite as: Thomas J. Smith Account Books, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Smoke abatement collection
See Citizens Smoke Abatement League of St. Louis.
A1533
Smyth, Florida Watts.
Family history, 1897. 1 box
Written family history compiled by Florida Watts Smyth with photographs, family
correspondence, etc. Some typed.
Cite as: Florida Watts Smyth Family History, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1534
Snead, Thomas L. (1827-1890).
Papers, 1861-1890. 3 boxes
Thomas Loundes Snead was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1828. He moved to St. Louis in
1851, where he practiced law and became publisher of the St. Louis Bulletin. He served as
assistant adjutant general in the Missouri State Guard with the rank of colonel, and subsequently
served as assistant adjutant general in the Confederate States Army. In May 1864 he was elected
to the Confederate Congress. After the war he moved to New York City, where he became editor
of the New York Daily News. In 1886, he published The Fight for Missouri: From the Election of
Lincoln to the Death of Lyon. He died in New York in 1890.
The collection consists primarily of materials gathered by Snead for an intended second
volume of The Fight for Missouri, which was never published. Contains postwar correspondence
mostly from Confederate officers to Snead in response to his requests for information regarding
their wartime activities. Correspondents include D.A. Armstrong, Joseph Boyce, Basil W. Duke,
John R. Gratiot, Colton Greene, James Harding, Thomas A. Harris, R. Holcomb, Dr. C. Hunter,
Charles P. Hyde, Horatio M. Jones, John S. Marmaduke, Dabney H. Maury, Celsus Price,
Thomas C. Reynolds, J[ohn] F. Snyder, E. Stickman, and W.E. Woodruff. Subjects discussed
include Confederate military operations and affairs in Missouri and elsewhere, and accounts of
the following battles: Boonville, Missouri; Corinth; Hatchie Bridge; Iuka; Pea Ridge; and
Wilson’s Creek. Collection also contains notes, newspaper clippings, chronologies, biographies,
and manuscripts including: undated memoirs of Major R[obert] R. Hutchinson titled
“Missourians East of the Mississippi River” (51 pages); undated manuscript titled “Acts and
Deeds of Colonel Burbridge’s Regiments” (29 pages); and undated manuscript titled “Missouri
and Arkansas from Elkhorn to the End” (59 pages).
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Thomas L. Snead Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1535
Snider, Denton J. (1841-1925).
Papers, 1878-1920. 1 box
American philosopher, psychologist, pedagogue, and literary savant. Manuscript and
typescript of The St. Louis Movement in Philosophy, Literature, Education, Psychology with
Chapters of Autobiography by Denton J. Snider, 1920; three letters of Snider to Charles Wulfing,
1878-1879.