Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

art collector with a special interest in Chinese art objects, he was a member of the People's Art
Center and the Artists' Guild. He died September 19, 1961.
The collection contains family genealogy and correspondence. The bulk of the papers
comprise minutes of the administrative Board of Control of the City Art Museum of St. Louis on
which Blackmer served from 1936-1961. The collection also includes minutes of the Ladue-Deer
Creek Sanitary Sewer District, 1937-1939. An addition to the collection contains family
correspondence, circa 1903-1924.
Indexed in the archives card catalog.
Cite as: Lucian Guy Blackmer Papers, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A2067
Blackwell, John Devincil (1867-1954).
Memorial Book, 1954. 1 volume [formerly Alphabetical File]
John Devincil Blackwell was born in Blackwell Station, Macon County, Missouri. He died at
Fayette, Missouri, in 1954.
The collection consists of the memorial book signed by those who attended Blackwell’s
funeral in Fayette.
Cite as: John Devincil Blackwell Memorial Book, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A2068
Blackwell, Thomas Edward (1898- ).
Biographical Data Sheet, 1955. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Biographical data sheet for the Missouri Historical Society filled out by Thomas Edward
Blackwell, 612 East Polo Drive, St. Louis County, Mo.
Cite as: Thomas Edward Blackwell Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A2069
Blair, Albert (1840- ).
Biographical Data Sheet, no date. 1 folder [formerly Alphabetical File]
Cite as: Albert Blair Biographical Data Sheet, Missouri History Museum Archives, St. Louis.
A0133
Blair Family.
Frank and Montgomery Blair papers, 1817-1963. 2 boxes; 1 volume
Francis Preston Blair, Sr. (1791-1876) was a journalist and a political leader. His sons
Francis Jr. (Frank) and Montgomery were also heavily involved in state and national politics.
Francis, Jr., was born February 19, 1821, in Lexington, Kentucky. He graduated from Princeton
in 1841 and later practiced law in St. Louis (1843). He was at one time the editor of the Missouri
Democrat. From 1852 to 1856 he was a member of the Missouri legislature, and he was elected
to Congress in 1857. He entered the army during the Civil War and was made brigadier general
and later major general. After the war he was the commissioner of the Pacific Railroad. He was
elected to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate where he remained until 1873. He died July 8, 1875,
in St. Louis. Montgomery Blair was born May 10, 1813, in Franklin County, Kentucky. He
graduated from West Point in 1835 and fought in the Seminole War. He began to study law after
the war and later practiced law in St. Louis in 1839. He was appointed the United States district
attorney for Missouri, and in 1842 he was elected mayor of St. Louis. He moved to Maryland in