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Manuscript history of the founding of St. Louis, no date. 1 box
Manuscript of the founding of St. Louis for Scharf's history. Also includes letter of Sylvester
Waterhouse to Amos A. Lawrence regarding need for assistance to arm and equip the loyal men
of Missouri, June 22, 1861.
Cite as: Sylvester Waterhouse, Manuscript History of the Founding of St. Louis, Missouri
History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
Wathen, Ignatius
See Ignatius Wathen and Company.
A1722
Waugh, Alfred S. ( -1856).
“Desultory Wanderings in the Years 1845-1846” / typescript, circa 1850. 1 box
Alfred S. Waugh was an Irishman who studied at the Royal Dublin Society in 1827 where he
learned to model in clay and worked in life classes. By 1833 he was in Baltimore, Maryland, and
in 1844, he met John B. Tisdale who became his traveling companion. He arrived in St. Louis
hoping to tour the West with Capt. Fremont; failing that, he settled in the Kansas City area until
1846, when traveled to Santa Fe. He then made St. Louis his home in 1848. He became known
for his ability to produce sculptures and portraits, especially miniatures, and also lectured on art
and wrote for the Western Journal. His eyesight failed him and he died a poor artist in St. Louis.
No examples of his art have been found.
Volume, supposedly the first of three, of memoirs and recollections of travels in 1845-1846.
Includes accounts of journeys to Mobile, New Orleans, St. Louis, Jefferson City, Demopolis,
Alabama, Independence, Missouri, Lexington, Missouri, and Santa Fe; recorded on the rightsided
pages probably around 1850. Letters dated 1849-1854 are written on the left-sided pages of
the volume, and include a letter to possibly Jenny Lind in March 1851. Collection also includes
typescript of memoir, edited by John Francis McDermott, and correspondence regarding its
publication.
Cite as: Alfred S. Waugh, "Desultory Wanderings in the Years 1845-1846," typescript, circa
1850, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1838
Waugh, Ella, Mrs. (circa 1900-1984).
Papers, 1930-1953 (bulk 1943-1953).
Ella Jens was born circa 1900. An artist and teacher, she attended the University of Missouri,
the School of Fine Arts at Washington University, and graduated from the St. Louis School of
Occupational Therapy. She studied sculpture at Cranbrook Academy near Detroit and at the
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She married Charles L. Waugh circa 1941,
but was widowed when her husband was killed January 26, 1944, in China, while serving as an
intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. She later married Edward Boeschenstein. She died April
15, 1984, in St. Louis.
The papers consist primarily of the correspondence between Ella Jens Waugh and her
husband, Charles L. Waugh, while Charles was serving in the U.S. Army, mostly in China,
during World War II. The collection also contains personal correspondence to Mrs. Waugh,
including several letters from her friend Mrs. Edna Gellhorn. Other notable items include the will
of Miss Ella Jens, dated 1931; several official military papers of Charles Waugh, dated 1942-
1943; newspaper clippings regarding United States military operations in China and the Pacific
during World War II; and World War II ration books and other rationing materials.