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miscellaneous material regarding Starr's family and his service with various military units. The
papers also include several folders of papers regarding William D. Price and his family.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Samuel H. Starr Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2143
State of Missouri v. John Caulfield, 1861.
Collection, 1860-1861. 1 folder
The collection consists of sixteen court documents pertaining to the case of State of Missouri
v. John Caulfield, 1861. Caulfield was tried for assault with the intent to kill in March 1861,
convicted of the crime, and sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary. The documents
include grand jury indictment, summons, a motion for a new trial, jury instructions, and the
jury’s written verdict.
Cite as: State of Missouri v. John Caulfield Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A1559
State Union Club of Missouri (Saint Louis, Missouri).
Records, 1861-1865. 4 folders; 1 oversize folder
The State Union Club of Missouri was organized in St. Louis in late summer 1861 by a group
of men sympathetic to the Union cause in the Civil War. By November, there were ward clubs
and branches in 36 counties.
Collection contains a minute book of the executive committee, dated September 1861 to
September 1862; correspondence and reports to the executive committee; membership roll of the
8th Ward Union Club, St. Louis; and receipts and bills from St. Louis clubs.
Cite as: State Union Club of Missouri Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1560
Steamboats and River History Collection, 1802-1986. 3 boxes; 3 volumes; 4 oversize folders
The Steamboats and River History Collection (formerly the Steamboats Collection) is an
artificial, or subject-based, collection comprising a variety of documents that have been placed in
this collection over the years due to their common subject matter. The bulk of the collection
relates to river travel and commerce primarily in the vicinity of St. Louis and on the Missouri
and Mississippi Rivers. The collection includes more than 60 receipts and bills of lading, mostly
dated pre-1900, for merchandise shipped on the rivers; letters, reminiscences, and journals, many
of which contain accounts of nineteenth-century steamboat travel; brochures, booklets and other
printed advertising material for tourist excursion boats, including the popular twentieth-century
St. Louis steamboats Admiral, President, and Delta Queen; several twentieth-century newspaper
clippings reflecting on the steamboat era in the West; menus; tickets; and licenses for steamboat
officers. Of particular note is a letter and petition of Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton to
the governor of Upper Louisiana, dated 1810, requesting a monopoly to operate steamboats on
the Upper Mississippi River.
Finding aid available.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Steamboats and River History Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1561
Steele, Elizabeth Little.