Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Collection, no date. 1 folder
William E. Beckman was born January 13, 1854. He founded the W.E. Beckman
Confectionary and Supply Company in 1882 in St. Louis. He was a charter member of the St.
Louis Chamber of Commerce and the Mercantile Library.
The collection contains a letter written in German, biographical information on Beckman, a
sympathy card from Beckman Confectionary to unknown, a letter of sympathy, and a political
poem parody of the Lord’s Prayer satirizing the Depression-era policies of Herbert Hoover.
Cite as: William E. Beckman Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0102
Beckwith Family.
Beckwith-Hunter-Medley Genealogy, 1954. 1 volume (320 pages)
Typescript genealogy with photographs recording family history from the seventeenth to the
twentieth centuries. It was compiled by Mary Medley Hunter (Mrs. Stephen B.), and traces the
Beckwith, Hunter, and Medley families from England to settlement in the Missouri towns of
New Madrid, Cape Girardeau, Mexico, and Sikeston.
Cite as: Beckwith-Hunter-Medley Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2006
Beckwith, Minerva Elton (1805- ).
Genealogy, no date. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Contains a genealogical chart of the descendants of Minerva Elton Beckwith.
Cite as: Minerva Elton Beckwith Genealogy, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2007
Bedal, William (1880-1966).
Papers, 1918-1953. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
William Bedal was born in Santa Rosa, Coahuila, Mexico, in November 1880. He was the
son of Dr. Sylvester Bedal and Adelheid Wuerpel. Upon Sylvester's death in 1887, Adelheid
enrolled in medical school and received her M.D. from Women's Medical College in
Philadelphia. She practiced medicine in St. Louis for over fifty years. William received a law
degree from Harvard University in 1905 and held positions in several St. Louis law firms. He
retired from law in 1946 and became president and later chairman of the board of the Industrial
Lumber Company of Elizabeth, Louisiana.
The collection consists of correspondence, award certificates, membership certificates, and
genealogical information pertaining to William Bedal and his mother, Dr. Adelheid Charlotte
Bedal. The collection includes two letters written by Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis to
Bedal and a typed draft copy of a letter Bedal wrote to Senator Harry Truman, 1942, regarding a
temporary suspension of the forty-hour work week for the purpose of boosting war-time
production. Includes Truman’s reply; a service certificates recognizing Adelheid's service in the
Volunteer Medical Service Corps; and a Golden Anniversary Award presented to her by the St.
Louis Medical Society.
Cite as: William Bedal Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2008
Beeson, Hiram.
Notebook, 1825. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
The collection consists of a mathematics notebook used by Hiram Beeson during his school