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Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

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Mrs. Blennerhassett.<br />

Cite as: Blennerhassett Family Papers, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St. Louis.<br />

A2082<br />

Blewett Family.<br />

Genealogy, 1918, no date. 1 folder<br />

Collection includes undated biographical data sheet for <strong>the</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>rical Society filled<br />

out by Scot<strong>to</strong> H. Blewett; undated typescript notes regarding Scott H. Blewett’s membership in<br />

fraternities and Masonic lodges; and typescript article titled “The Blewett Family in St. Louis,”<br />

Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 1918 (4 pages).<br />

Cite as: Blewett Family Genealogy, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St. Louis.<br />

A2083<br />

Bleyer, Adrien S.<br />

Collection, 1968. 1 item<br />

Letter signed Mary Robertson <strong>to</strong> Mr. Brooks, June 1, 1968, which contains biographical<br />

information on her great-uncle Adrien S. Bleyer. Letter is written on <strong>the</strong> letterhead of Mrs. James<br />

Scott Robertson, 230 Rosemont Ave., Webster Groves, Mo. (The address is crossed out, and<br />

“336 Orchard Ave.” is written in.)<br />

Cite as: Adrien S. Bleyer Collection, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St. Louis.<br />

A0137<br />

Bliss, Malcolm Andrews, Dr. (1863-1934).<br />

Family Papers, 1865-1964 (bulk 1917-1934). 2 boxes<br />

Dr. Malcolm Andrews Bliss was born July 2, 1863, in Warsaw, Illinois, <strong>the</strong> son of Uriah<br />

Wright Bliss and Amanda Andrews Bliss. Malcolm Bliss spent his youth in Kings<strong>to</strong>n Terrace,<br />

<strong>Missouri</strong>. He graduated from <strong>the</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> Dental School in 1884, and practiced dentistry for<br />

several years in Farming<strong>to</strong>n, <strong>Missouri</strong>. He <strong>the</strong>n returned <strong>to</strong> school, graduating from Chicago<br />

Medical College. He practiced medicine at Bonne Terre, <strong>Missouri</strong>, before moving <strong>to</strong> St. Louis in<br />

1892. He was a nationally known specialist in mental and nervous diseases. In 1891, he married<br />

Clementine Carter in Farming<strong>to</strong>n. They had two sons, Wyllys and Carter Bliss. Malcolm Bliss<br />

died September 4, 1934, at his summer home, "Blisshaven," near Manchester, St. Louis County.<br />

Collection consists primarily of <strong>the</strong> correspondence of Dr. Malcolm Bliss and family, and<br />

papers and publications of Malcolm Bliss regarding his research on mental and nervous diseases.<br />

Collection also includes an 1875 composition book; newsclippings and groundbreaking<br />

ceremony program for <strong>the</strong> Malcolm Bliss Mental Health Center; Soldan High School graduation<br />

program, 1912; papers relating <strong>to</strong> Malcolm Bliss' service in World War I; one issue of The<br />

Lutesville Banner, September 22, 1921; a newspaper article on General Jesse McIlwaine Carter;<br />

and a Bliss family genealogy taken from Aaron Tyler Bliss' The Bliss Family in America.<br />

Cite as: Dr. Malcolm Andrews Bliss Family Papers, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong> Archives, St.<br />

Louis.<br />

A2084<br />

Bliss, Robert A.<br />

Genealogy, no date. 1 item<br />

Family his<strong>to</strong>ry sheet for <strong>the</strong> <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>rical Society filled out by Robert Alan Bliss, 7515<br />

Westmoreland, St. Louis County, Mo.<br />

Cite as: Robert A. Bliss Genealogy, <strong>Missouri</strong> His<strong>to</strong>ry <strong>Museum</strong>, St. Louis.

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