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CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF
MISSOURI
(THE CENTER STATE)
One Hundred Years in the Union 1820-1921
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ST. LOUIS-CHICAGO THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1921
Copyright, 1921, by THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING CO.
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TO THE Generations of Missouri Journalists WHO HAVE WRITTEN DAY BY DAY THE HISTORY OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF STATEHOOD
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THE STATE FLAG OF MISSOURI
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Jefferson on the Louisiana Purchase
"The territory acquired, as it includes all the waters of the Missouri and Mississippi, has more than doubled the area of the United States, and the new part is not inferior to the old in soil, climate, productions and important communications."-Jefferson to General Gates, July 11th, 1803.
"On this important acquisition, so favorable to the immediate interests of our Western citizens, so auspicious to the peace and security of the nation in general, which adds to our country territories so extensive and fertile, and to our citizens new brethren to partake of the blessings of freedom and self-government, I offer to Congress and our country my sincere congratulations."-Jefferson to Congress, January 16th, 1804.
"Whilst the property and sovereignty of the Mississippi and its waters secure an inde- pendent outlet for the produce of the Western States, and an uncontrolled navigation through their whole course, free from collision with other Powers, and the dangers to our peace from that source, the fertility of the country, its climate and extent, promise, in due season, important aids to our Treasury, an ample provision for our posterity, and a wide spread for the blessings of freedom and equal laws."-Jefferson to Congress, October 17th, 1803.
"I know that the acquisition of Louisiana has been disapproved by some, from a candid apprehension that the enlargement of our territory would endanger our Union. But can you limit the extent to which the federative principle may operate effectively? The larger our association, the less will it be shaken by local passions; and in any view, is it not bet- ter that the opposite bank of the Mississippi should be settled by our own brethren and children than by strangers of another family? With which shall we be most likely to live in harmony and friendly intercourse?"-Jefferson's Second Inaugural Address, 1805.
"The treaty which has so happily sealed the friendship of our two countries has been received here with general acclamation. Some inflexible federalists have still ventured to brave the public opinion. It will fix their character with the world and with posterity, who, not descending to the other points of difference between us, will judge them by this fact, so palpable as to speak for itself in all times and places. For myself and my country, I thank you for the aids you have given in it; and I congratulate you on having lived to give those aids in a transaction replete with blessings to unborn millions of men, and which will mark the face of a portion on the globe so extensive as that which now composes the United States of America."-Jefferson to M. Dupont De Nemours, French Minister, Novem- ber Ist, 1803.
"I confess I look to this duplication of area for the extending a government so free and economical as ours, as a great achievement to the mass of happiness which is to ensue. Whether we remain in one confederacy, or form into Atlantic and Mississippi confed- eracies, I believe not very important to the happiness of either part. Those of the west- ern confederacy will be as much our children and descendants as those of the eastern, and I feel myself as much identified with that country, in future time, as with this; and did I now foresee a separation at some future day, yet I should feel the duty and the desire
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to promote the western interests as zealously as the eastern, doing all the good for both portions of our future family which should fall within my power."-Jefferson to Dr. Priest- ley. January 20th. 1804.
JEFFERSON'S LETTER OF CREDIT TO MERIWETHER LEWIS Washington, U. S. of America, July 4, 1803.
Dear Sir :
In the journey which you are about to undertake for the discovery of the course and source of the Missouri, and of the most convenient water communication from thence to the Pacific Ocean, your party being small, it is to be expected that you will encounter con- siderable dangers from the Indian inhabitants. Should you escape those dangers and reach the Pacific Ocean, you may find it imprudent to hazard a return the same way, and be forced to seek a passage round by sea, in such vessels as you may find on the Western coast. But you will be without money, without clothes and other necessaries; as a suffi- cient supply cannot be carried with you from hence. Your resource in that case can only be in the credit of the U. S., for which purpose I hereby authorize you to draw on the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of War and of the Navy of the U. S., according as you may find your draughts most negotiable, for the purpose of obtaining money or necessaries for yourself and your men. And I solemnly pledge the faith of the United States that these draughts shall be paid punctually at the date they are made payable. I also ask of the consuls, agents, merchants and citizens of any nation with which we have intercourse or amity to furnish you with those supplies which your necessities may call for, assuring them of honorable and prompt retribution. And our own Consuls in foreign parts where you may happen to be, are hereby instructed and required to be aiding and assisting to you in whatsoever may be necessary for procuring your return back to the United States. And to give more entire satisfaction and confidence to those who may be disposed to aid you, I, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America, have written this letter of general credit for you with my own hand, and signed it with my name.
To Capt. Meriwether Lewis.
TH. JEFFERSON.
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The work of Karl Bitter. Placed in the arch of the Jefferson Memorial, Forest Park, St. Louis, by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
One Hundred Years of Statehood
When Amos Stoddard, "the American Captain" raised the flag of the United States at St. Louis in March, 1804, the population of Upper Louisiana, as it was then called, was 6,982 by the most recent census of the Spanish governor, Delassus. This included all of the Louisiana Purchase north of Louisiana. Such was the rush of settlers to the new acquisition that in eight years the government at Washington recognized a political territory, estab- lished a capital at St. Louis and organized five counties with a legislature and territorial courts. Six years later the Territory of Missouri, growing as have few other subdivisions of the United States, was asking statehood and admis- sion to the Union.
Missouri's travail of statehood began Jackson Day, 1818. On the anniver- sary of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8th, Congress received "petitions from sundry inhabitants of the Territory of Missouri, praying that the said Territory of Missouri may be erected into a state, and admitted into the Union, on an equal footing with the original states. Three years, seven months and two days later President James Monroe issued a brief, formal proclamation announcing that "the admission of the said state of Missouri into this Union is declared to be complete." Within that period Missouri framed and adopted a constitution, elected and organized a state government,-executive, legisla- tive and judicial. The territorial government ceased to function in 1820. United States senators and a representative were elected in 1820 and presented their credentials to Congress. Presidential electors were chosen and the returns from Missouri were given quasi recognition when the electoral returns were canvassed in joint session of Congress. Statutes were enacted and became the laws of the State of Missouri. And yet the admission into the Union was not "complete" until August 10, of 1821. In this condition, anomalous of new states, the first governor, McNair, justly congratulated 70,647 Missourians on their capacity for self-government while Missouri was an "American republic on the confines of the Federal Union."
Missouri became the Center State of the Union. Two states south is the Gulf. Two states north is the Canadian line. Five states cast is the Atlantic. By the same count of commonwealths westward is the Pacific. Missouri is the geographical heart of the Union. But more than in geography has Mis- souri been the Center State. In the garb of a national issue Missouri entered the Union. The Missouri Compromise was a political shibboleth of two gen- erations of Americans. Forty years this state was the moral and political
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storm center, with the issue of slavery growing into an impending crisis. Mis- souri, in the language of the last governor before Civil war, Robert M. Stewart, was "a peninsula of slavery running out into a sea of freedom."
Forty years Missouri's growth in population, in trade, in development of natural resources, in culture, was wonderful. Then came Civil war .- Mis- sourian against Missourian. A battle according to Civil war - definition, was an engagement in which ten or more soldiers were killed or wounded. Of the 2,261 battles so classified, more than one-tenth were on Missouri soil. The 140,000 Missourians who went into the Civil war, on one side or the other. were 14 per cent of the population, or 60 per cent of all within military age.
The incidents, the details of the war in Missouri from 1861 to 1865, are almost incredible. But the recalling of them in history is justifiable, and especially so in view of what followed. Almost 'as quickly as the storm of war burst in 1861 came the calm of peace in 1865,-the restoration of law and order by the popular will. Nowhere else on the border were wounds healed, were scars removed, so rapidly as in Missouri. Missourians, in the fullest sense, accepted the result of arms. Standing beside the statues of the great unionists. Benton and Blair, in statuary hall at the national capital, Vest, who had been on the opposite side in the issue of states' rights, a Confederate sen- ator. said :
"These men sleep together in Missouri soil, almost side by side, and so long as this capitol shall stand, their statues will be eloquent, though silent, pledges of Missouri's eternal allegiance to an eternal Union."
Ten years after the Civil war, Missouri had recovered from the strife and desolation. The state was in a fair way to prosper as never before. Then came another crisis. Missouri faced a revolution, economic, not political. The splendid system of water transportation, in relation to which Missouri held the central advantage of the Mississippi valley, was supplanted by rails. What other commonwealth has been called upon to adapt itself in such short time to such radical changes !
The center of population of the United States is moving with singular regu- larity toward Missouri. Unless there should be a radical change in the growth of the country the center will be in this state, a short distance north of the mouth of the Missouri river. For more than one hundred years this center has moved in a narrow path. In 1790 it was east of Baltimore about twenty-three miles. In 1910 it was very close to the Illinois line in the western part of the city of Bloomington, Indiana. It was in approximately the same latitude as it was 120 years before. The center has moved westward each decade, varying distances from a minimum of thirty-six miles to a maximum of eighty-one miles. From 1900 to 1910 the movement was thirty-nine miles. World war influences, draw- ing upon the West for emergency industries in the East, temporarily checked the movement somewhat.
In population when admitted, Missouri was twenty-third of the twenty-six states. In ten years, Missouri had become the twenty-first; in twenty years, the sixteenth; in thirty years, the thirteenth. In 1870, Missouri was fifth in census rank. But more significant than numbers is nativity. Fifty years ago one Mis- sourian in seven was alien-born. In this centennial period the foreign-born Mis-
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sourian is one in fourteen. Where else shall be found the truer type of the American !
Missouri has been a mother of states. From the original Territory of Mis- . souri have been organized twelve states. The Louisiana Purchase has added to the Union the same number of states as formed the original thirteen. From the territory which lay beyond the Louisiana Purchase have been erected eight states. In this winning for the West, Missourians have been the vanguard. Missourians have founded a hundred cities and towns beyond the borders of the state from which they went forth as pioneers. And yet the native stock has not been depleted. Three of four Missourians are Missouri-born.
As Missouri was rounding out the century of statehood, came the supreme test of her manhood and womanhood. In the World war for humanity, the response to every call was given with a state-wide demonstration of American sentiment and efficiency. The time is opportune for Missourians to review the' evolution of their state and to do honor to the generations which have made it.
W. B. S.
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List of Illustrations
Official Flag of Missouri. opp. vi
Marble Statue of Thomas Jefferson. X
St. Louis in 1870, at End of St. Ange Government. 2
Boat with Cordelle, Sail and Poles
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Old Franklin, Only Building Left
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President Thomas Jefferson
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President James Monroe
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General William Henry Harrison, Governor Northwest Territory
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Don Carlos DeHault Delassus, Last Spanish Governor
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First Government House at St. Louis.
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Signing the Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase at Paris.
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First News of Louisiana Purchase Reaches St. Louis 36
General Daniel Bissell, Commander Ft. Bellefontaine.
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Governor Alexander McNair's House. 45
The Bougenou Home, Where First Marriage Took Place.
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St. Joseph in 1857.
Map of Missouri, The Center State.
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. Auguste Chouteau, Leader of First Thirty to St. Louis
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Government House as Remodeled by Auguste Chouteau
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Map of St. Louis, March 10, 1804.
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A Pioneer Missouri Home When Settlers Chose the Creeks.
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First Catholic Church in Missouri, 1770. 91 101
Map Showing Boundaries of St. Louis from Beginning
Old Gillis House, Kansas City . III
The Sorghum Mill, One Time Missouri Industry 123
The Missouri Blacksmith's Busy Day 123
The Old Tavern at Arrow Rock. I33
Fritz Tavern on Bowling Green Turnpike. I33
Old County Jail of St. Louis I33
An Ozark Tavern 143
"Dad," an Old Time Tavernkeeper of Missouri 143
McGee Hotel, Early Tavern of Kansas City. 143
Signers of Agreement to Build the First Church. 151
Worship in the Woods, Pioneers Going to Church 159
Old Freedom Baptist Church in Jasper County 159
Elder Moses E. Lard, Pioneer Christian Preacher 165
Elder Allen Wright, Pioneer Christian Preacher 165
Joseph Robidoux, Founder of St. Joseph.
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A Temple of the Pioneer Missourians 165
First Congregational Church, St. Louis, 1861. 177
First Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1861. 177
Mansion House Where First Constitutional Convention Met. 185 William G. Pettus, Secretary First Constitutional Convention 185
David Barton. President First Constitutional Convention. 185 Alexander McNair, Governor, 1820-1824
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Frederick Bates, Governor, 1824-1826
John Miller. Governor, 1826-1832.
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Daniel Dunklin, Governor, 1832-1836.
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Lilburn W. Boggs, Governor, 1836-1840. 193
Thomas Reynolds, Governor, 1840-1844. 193 201
Henry Clay, Author of the Missouri Compromise.
Daniel Boone, Statue by Enid Yandell. 20I
Residence of Thomas F. Riddick, St. Louis, 1818. 201
Charles Gratiot, Who Led Cheering When Flag Was Raised 207
Town House of Charles Gratiot. 207 217
Courthouse, St. Louis, 1840
Courthouse at Its Best, About 1870. 217 225
Charles P. Johnson, Author of Anti-Gambling. Statute.
Judge Elmer B. Adams, Author of the Man Higher Up. 225
Chief Justice of Supreme Court Henry W. Bond. 225 231
Oldest House in Lexington, Pioneer Courthouse
Judge John W. Henry.
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Judge Henry Clay McDougal, Author of "Recollections" 23I
Roger North Todd, First Circuit Clerk of Boone County 237
Boone County Courthouses in 1847 and 1909.
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Melvin L. Gray
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Alexander Kayser 247
First Two Courthouses of Buchanan County.
Judge David Todd, Territorial and First Circuit Judge.
Major Thomas Biddle, Principal in Fatal Duel With Pettis
Thomas H. Benton
The Roy Windmill Tower Opposite Bloody' Island Dueling Ground. 267 J. B. C. Lucas, Jefferson's Commissioner . 277 277
Luke E. Lawless, One of the Early Judges of Missouri.
Bowling Green Courthouse 277 287
Madame Chouteau, the Mother of St. Louis.
Friedrich Muench, Leader of the Latiniers. 303
Dr. George J. Engelman, Missouri's Foremost Scientist. 303
General Franz Sigel, Civil War Leader 303 General P. J. Osterhaus, of Civil War Fame 303
Dr. George Hillgaertner, Prominent German Journalist of the Sixties 313
Henry Boernstein, Editor of the Anzeiger in the Fifties 313
Carl Daenzer, Leading German Editor After the Civil War 313
Emil Preetorius, Upbuilder of the Westliche Post. 313
Pioneer Steamboat of the Missouri 325
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Keelboat on the Osage River .. 325
Captain Daniel G. Taylor, Civil War Mayor of St. Louis 333
A Scene on the St. Louis Levee, 1850. 333
Water Power in the Ozarks .. 339
The Great Republic, When River Travel Was Popular 339
Early Transportation on the Missouri River.
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Forty-six Trainloads of Coal in One Tow of Barges 345
Eighty Trainloads of Lumber on One Barge 345
Captain William Wallace Greene. 35I
Captain John N. Bofinger. 35I
The Harp of a Thousand Strings, Captain Eads' Invention 35I
Six Trainloads of Cotton on a St. Louis Steamboat 357
Crossing White River in the Ozarks 357 363
One of Missouri's Countless Springs.
Missouri's Bethesdas 363
Captain John F. McCune, Organizer of Keokuk Packet Line. 369
Captain John Simonds, One of the Early Commodores 369
A Missouri River Scene Near Lexington.
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Map of the Old Santa Fe Trail.
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Staging in the Ozarks.
First Locomotive in Missouri, Built in St. Louis.
Overland Train Leaving Missouri for California.
Missouri Pack Train to Santa Fe, 1820
Terminus of Old Santa Fe Trail. 395
Charles G. Warner, Railroad Manager 405 405
· D. R. Garrison, Railroad Builder and Manager
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A. A. Talmage, Railroad Manager. 405
Kansas City's Union Passenger Station Completed 1914. 413
Bull Boats on Which Furs Were Transported Down the Missouri 417
Wilson Price Hunt, Chosen to Head Expedition to Astoria 417
Antoine Soulard, Author of "Riches Along the Missouri' 417
Fourth Street, St. Louis in 1840. 421
Major William Christy, Founder of North St. Louis.
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Residence of Major William Christy, 1818. 425
Colonel Thornton Grimsley 431
Market House and Levee at St. Louis, 1840. 431
St. Louis Municipal Bridge and Approach. 437
The Old Merchants' Exchange of St. Louis 437
. Municipal Bridge of St. Louis Opened January 20, 1917. 443
First Train of Coal Over Municipal Bridge, St. Louis.
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St. Louis Municipal Bridge. 443
Tablet to Pontiac Erected by Daughters of American Revolution 451
Indian Alarm of Missouri Overland Train. 451
Pontiac, Buried in St. Louis. 461
Type of the Shawnees Invited to Settle in Missouri 461
An Indian Camp, from an Old Woodcut. 461
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S. H. H. Clark, Railroad Manager
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Twin Osage Papooses 47I 471
Ke-o-kuk, the Watchful Fox
Wah-pah-sho-sah, Osage Chief 471
Major Benjamin O'Fallon, Investigator of British Intrigues 477 Robert Forsyth, Many Years Influential Indian Agent. 477
Old Fort and Stockade on the Hill at St. Louis.
Captain Stephen Cole's Fight on Spencer Creek.
The Town Crier, a St. Louis Character of 1840.
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Life in the Ozarks, 1920.
Father P. J. DeSmet, S. J., "Black Gown," of the Indians 509 A Typical Scene in the Ozarks of Missouri Life in the Ozarks, 1870 515 523 523 Navigation in the Ozarks. 531 An Ozark Bungalow Living Room 531 In Southeast Missouri 539 Palisades of Big River 539 Mayor John F. Darby. 548 Mayor John M. Wimer 548 548 Mayor Peter G. Camden. 548 Mayor Bernard Pratte Mayor Luther M. Kennett 548 Mastodon Skeletons Excavated at Kimmswick. 553 Museum of Mastodon Relics Excavated Near St. Louis 561 The Big Mound, St. Louis, 1850 561 Devil's Tollgate, Near Arcadia. 569 Opening an Indian Mound in Vicinity of St. Louis. 569 A Freak of the Ozarks. 577 An Ozark Cave Entrance. 577 Entrance to Forest Park, Statue of Francis P. Blair 585
St. Louis in 1860, the Year Before the Civil War.
593 Shopping District of St. Louis in 1857. 601 M. M. Marmaduke, Governor, 1844 610 John C. Edwards, Governor, 1844-1848. 610 Austin King, Governor, 1848-1852. 610 Sterling Price, Governor, 1853-1857. 610 610 610 Mayor Washington King 619 619 Mayor Nathan Cole Mayor Henry Overstolz 619 Mayor John M. Krum 619 Mayor John D. Daggett 619
Trusten Polk, Governor, 1857
Robert M. Stewart, Governor, 1857-1861
Wholesale District of St. Louis, 1860. 627
Francis P. Blair, Jr., He Kept Missouri in the Union 637
John Richard Barret, "Missouri Dick" 637
Volunteer Fire Department, St. Louis, 1842. 645
Tom Thumb in St. Louis in 1848. 645
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Residence of John P. Cabanne, Built in 1819
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St. Louis Cathedral in 1840. 657
Miss Ann, Historic Negro Character of Central Missouri. 669 Dred Scott, Whose Case Nullified Missouri Compromise 669 Broadway and French Market, 1872 689
James O. Broadhead, Member Committee of Safety in 1861 707
Oliver D. Filley, Chairman, Committee of Safety. 707 Mercantile Library Where State Convention Met in 1861. 707 725
General W. S. Harney, in Command at St. Louis, 1861
General Sterling Price, Commander of Missouri Troops, C. S. A. 725 735
St. Louis in 1861, Scene of Seventh Street Tragedy.
General D. M. Frost, in Command of Camp Jackson in 1861
General Nathaniel Lyon, Who Fell at Wilson's Creek.
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Second Presbyterian Church of St. Louis in 1840, Scene of Tragedy, 1861 735
General Emmett McDonald, Leader of St. Louis Minute Men, 1861 751
General Monroe M. Parsons, One of Organizers of State Guard, 1861 751 Berthold Mansion, Broadway and Pine, Minute Men Headquarters 751 761 761
Rear View of Log House Built by General Grant.
Gen. Fred Dent Grant in Front of Father's Log House.
Brant Residence, Fremont's Headquarters, 1861.
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Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Daughter of Benton.
Gen. John C. Fremont, Called "The Woolly Horse" in 1856. 771
C. S. Greeley, of Western Sanitary Commission. 775
James E. Yeatman, Head of Western Sanitary Commission. 775
Dr. John T. Hodgen, Surgeon of Western Sanitary Commission 775 George Partridge of Western Sanitary Commission 775 795
General A. J. Smith.
General W. T. Sherman. 795 795
Ironton and Arcadia Valley, the Thermopylae of the West
Isaac H. Sturgeon, U. S. Assistant Treasurer, 1861. 803
Battle of Lexington, Known as "Battle of the Hemp Bales" 803
Gratiot Street Prison, St. Louis, in Civil War 811 SII 865
McCausland Home at Lexington, Hospital in Civil War
Fox Hounds from a Missouri Kennel.
Pioneer Life in Missouri, 1820.
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Meyer Monument on the Kansas City Paseo.
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McGee Home, First Brick House in Jackson County
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Kansas City in 1852.
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Kansas City at an Early Day. View From the River
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Kansas City Paseo, Before the Renaissance.
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West Bluff, Kansas City, as It Is Today. 912
West Bluff, Kansas City, as It Was Before the Renaissance 913
Swope Park, the Great Recreation Park of Kansas City 921
General Sterling Price Leading Missouri Confederates. 929
Judge John F. Philips, Grand Old Man of Missouri. 939
Judge Thomas T. Gantt 939
Main Street, Kansas City, in 1867.
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Judge Samuel Treat
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Statue of St. Louis, Presented by Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 947
Centenary Methodist Church, Broadway and Pine Streets, 1859. 961
Rev. Dr. D. R. McAnally, Methodist Preacher and Publisher. 961 Rev. H. B. Mc Pheeters, Presbyterian. 961 969
Bishop P. J. Ryan, Orator and Wit.
Archbishop P. R. Kenrick, Roman Catholic.
Bishop L. W. V. Dubourg, Roman Catholic.
Bishop Rosati, Roman Catholic.
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Bishop C. F. Robertson. Episcopal, Historian.
Bishop Cicero Stephen Hawks, Episcopal, Noted Author 977
Christ Church, in 1840, Broadway and Chestnut Street. 977 983
First Presbyterian Church, Fourteenth and Locust, 1865
Rev. William Potts, Presbyterian. 983
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