Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

Finding aid available.
Cite as: Mrs. Ella Waugh Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1723
Wayne County, Missouri, collection, 1854-1871. 2 folders (approximately 25 items)
Court papers from Wayne County, Missouri; family correspondence of residents of Wayne
County describing everyday life.
Cite as: Wayne County, Missouri, Collection, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1724
Webb, James Josiah (1818-1889).
Papers, 1839-1889. 8 boxes; 21 volumes
James J. Webb was a Santa Fe trader; a partner with George P. Doan in firm of Webb and
Doan (1845-1850); with William S. Messervy in the firm of Messervy and Webb (1850-1854);
and with John M. Kingsbury in the firm of Webb and Kingsbury (1854-1861). After 1857, he
lived in New Haven and then Hamden, Connecticut. He retired in 1861 to careers in politics and
agriculture.
Collection includes records of the various Santa Fe trading firms of James J. Webb, and
documents all aspects of the St. Louis to Santa Fe trade prior to, during, and in the period
following the Mexican War. Also includes material relating to Webb's personal life, including
his views on politics, health, and his capture and imprisonment in Chihuahua during the Mexican
War. Materials include voluminous correspondence, receipts, and account books. Among the
account books are six volumes of accounts of Webb and Doan from St. Louis and Santa Fe and
points in between; a purchase journal, daybook, accounts journal, cashbook, ledger, and
letterbook of Webb and Doan agent Henry Winslow, dated 1848-1850; two volumes of accounts
of Messervy and Webb that include a daybook (1851) with entries of the successor firm of Webb
and Kingsbury in rear (1845-1869) and a purchase journal of William S. Messervy of Boston
(1851-1852), with trial balances of Webb and Kingsbury in rear (1855-1857); 11 record books of
Webb and Kingsbury from New England and New York, and from St. Louis and Santa Fe; and
two letterbooks of James J. Webb that include correspondence regarding Santa Fe trade, personal
life, and politics (1857-1871). Also of major significance is a volume of Captain H.L. Dodge's
Company of Volunteers stationed at Gemez (1848-1849) containing general orders and morning
reports; and a manuscript and typescript memoir of James J. Webb written in 1889 that spans the
years 1844-1847.
Cite as: James Josiah Webb Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A1725
Weber, Johann Heinrich.
Papers, circa 1795-1865. 1 box
Dr. Henry Behrens married Bertha Weber in St. Charles. She was the eldest daughter of
Johann Heinrich Weber. Ida Weber married Major Warrens; Therese married Charles Balmer;
others were Henry and Gottwald.
Collection consists of personal papers, namely official appointments, commissions, honors,
etc. of Johann Heinrich Weber; letters of Henry W. Longfellow to J. Henry Weber regarding
translations of Miles Standish and suggestions as to publisher (1859); original literary volumes
of Weber's, including poetry, a drama, and a three-part volume that includes other dramatic
works, travels, and an autobiography up to 1834; notebook of Bertha Weber titled “Collectanea”;
a chorale book of German songs; a copybook of works of favorite German authors; and a family