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married Adele Wuerpel in 1857. He was elected mayor of Carondelet in 1852 and judge of the
St. Louis County Court in 1859. In 1865, he was named collector of internal revenue by
President Lincoln. After the Civil War, he became first president of the Trader's Bank, and in
1889 became the first president of the Terminal Railroad Association. He was influential in the
building of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis.
Letterbook, with some typescript translations, mainly relating to Terminal Railroad
Association affairs, 1868-1883.
Some German handscript.
Cite as: William Taussig Letterbook, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1602
Taxes and tax lists collection, 1805-1898. 3 boxes; 9 oversize folders; 38 volumes
This collection consists of assorted materials, acquired from a variety of sources, that relate
to taxes and taxation in St. Louis and Missouri. These materials are housed together due to their
common subject matter. The collection includes tax lists for the District of St. Louis, 1805;
assessment of township of St. Louis for territorial tax, 1815; assessments of the county of St.
Louis for territorial taxes, 1816, 1817; St. Louis City and County tax lists, 1819; property tax list
for St. Louis, 1823; Scott County real estate tax list, 1827; abstracts of land sold at the land
office at St. Louis, January 2, 1834–January 1, 1835; printed tax sales notices published in
supplements to Jefferson City, Missouri, newspapers announcing auctions of lands throughout
Missouri on which delinquent taxes were not paid, arranged by county for the years 1843-1849,
1851-1852; abstracts of land sold at the land office in Fayette, Missouri, 1845; Barry County tax
list, 1836; and assorted examples of tax assessments, forms, and receipts. The larger part of the
collection consists of assorted property tax lists from Missouri counties during the territorial
period and early Missouri statehood, most of which were housed with the Missouri Register of
Land Titles in Jefferson City, Missouri. This collection includes tax lists from Boone County,
1821-1841; Callaway County, 1821-1842; Cape Girardeau County, 1817-1840; Chariton County,
1821-1837; Clay County, 1822-1842; Cooper County, 1819-1841; Franklin County, 1819-1842;
Howard County, 1817-1841; Marion County, 1827-1841; Monroe County, 1831-1842;
Montgomery County, 1819-1841; St. Charles County, 1805-1841; St. Francois County, 1822-
1840; Ste. Genevieve County, 1805-1863. The collection also contains one volume titled "Tax
Lists by Counties" containing partial listing of persons assessed with notes of original land
claimants in several Missouri counties, 1836, with annotations dating to 1849; and printed
notices of delinquent property taxes in St. Louis County for the years 1833 and 1834, and records
of delinquent property taxes, 1896-1898, with notes on disposition (case numbers 6960-7372).
Additional separately housed tax lists for St. Louis and St. Louis County include a Saint Louis
County tax list of real property, covering both the city wards and the county townships, 1836; a
tax book for the City and Township of St. Louis, 1841; a St. Louis County tax list of real and
personal property in the city limits (names A-L only), 1847-1848; a tax book for the second
assessment district of St. Louis County, 1853; and a St. Louis County tax list for roads and
schools, 1855-1859.
Cite as: Taxes and Tax Lists Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1603
Taylor, George R. (1818-1880).
Papers, 1840-1882; 1949. 3 boxes
George R. Taylor was a lawyer and land and railroad investor. He came to St. Louis in 1841,
and formed a partnership with Judge Wilson Primm, which continued until 1849. He married