Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

documenting land conveyances from original colonial land grants and American confirmations
of same through the 1950s. These records include copies of the Hunt's Minutes, Bates' Record,
indexes to wills and administrations, records of major estate settlements and partitions, as well as
conventional title abstract volumes. These record books were initially compiled by the firms of
Charles H. Kleinschmidt, Miller and Kleinschmidt, Samuel A. Reppy, John A. Reppy, Reppy
and Kleinschmidt, and Brewster and Brewster of Jefferson County; and the firms of Lincoln
Trust and Title Company, Union Trust Company, Title Insurance Corporation of St. Louis, St.
Louis Trust Company, Hunsche-Buder Land Title Company, Edward L. Bakewell Real Estate,
Title Guaranty Trust Company, August Gehner and Company, Sterling and Webster Title
Abstract Company, McClellan, and Willis L. Williams, of St. Louis. The collection also includes
a map of St. Louis and St. Louis County, published by Hearne Brothers, Detroit, circa 1950s or
1960s, and an assortment of St. Louis subdivision plats and land sale broadsides.
Finding aid available.
Cite as: Sweeney Real Estate Company Plat Books and Title Abstracts Collection, Missouri
History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1595
Sweringen, James Tower (1807-1870).
Papers, 1818-1872. 1 box (approximately 300 items)
James T. Sweringen (1807-1870), St. Louis merchant and financier, came to St. Louis in
1828 and took an active part in the affairs of the city. He operated a large department store, dealt
in real estate, banking, and various commercial affairs. Sweringen was married to Martha Farrar,
daughter of Dr. Bernard G. Farrar, in 1832.
Contains papers regarding business, politics, Black Republicanism, secession, the Civil War,
reconstruction, sale of Negroes, real estate and the settlement of the Tower family.
Cite as: James Tower Sweringen Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1807
Swingley, Charles Ernest (1849-1934).
Papers, 1899. 1 volume
Charles Ernest Swingley was born January 4, 1849, in Ogle County, Illinois. He was the son
of George and Anna Elizabeth (Locker) Swingley. The family moved to St. Louis in 1861 where
Charles graduated from the public school system. In 1867, he began working as an apprentice in
the bricklaying trade. He married Eliza Charlton on June 1, 1869. In 1869 he joined the St. Louis
Fire Department and worked in various branches of the service until 1895. In that year he was
appointed chief of the Fire Department by Mayor Walbridge, a position he served until 1914.
Mayor Kiel appointed Swingley director of public safety in 1914 where he served until 1917.
Swingley also served as president of the International Association of Fire Engineers. He died
October 1, 1934, in St. Louis.
Bound volume of testimonial letters written on behalf of C.E. Swingley for his reappointment
to the position of chief of the fire department in 1899.
Cite as: Charles Ernest Swingley Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1596
Switzler Family.
Papers, 1818-1919. 3 folders (approximately 40 items)
Collection has correspondence regarding David Barton and John Hardeman about political
affairs in Missouri; diary of William F. Switzler on a trip to New Orleans from Missouri, January