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HISTORY OF MISSOURI.
SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE.
Medical College, University of Missouri . . Columbia.
College of Physicians and Surgeons . St. Joseph.
Kansas City College of Physicians and Surgeons Kansas City.
Hospital Medical College St. Joseph.
Missouri Medical College . . St. Louis.
Northwestern Medical College . St. Joseph.
St. Louis Medical College St. Louis.
Homeopathic Medical College of Missouri St. Louis.
Missouri School of Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children . St. Louis. Missouri Central College . . St. Louis.
St. Louis College of Pharmacy
St. Louis.
LARGEST PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
NAME.
LOCATION
VOLUMES
St. Vincent's College .
Cape Girardeau.
5,500
Southeast Missouri State Normal School .
Cape Girardeau.
1,225
University of Missouri .
Columbia .
10,000
Athenian Society .
Columbia
1,200
Union Literary Society
· Columbia .
1,200
Law College .
Columbia
1,000
Westminster College
Fulton 5,000
Lewis College
Glasgow
3,000
Mercantile Library
Hannibal 2,219
Library Association
Independence
1, 100
Fruitland Normal Institute
Jackson 1,000
State Library
Jefferson City
13,000
Kansas City
1,3CO
Whittemore's Circulating Library .
Kansas City
1,000
North Missouri State Normal School
Kirksville .
1,050
William Jewell College
Liberty
4,000
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
Rolla
1,478
St. Charles Catholic Library .
St. Charles
1,716
Carl Frielling's Library
,St. Joseph
6,000
Law Library .
St. Joseph.
2,000
Public School Library .
St. Joseph
2,500
Walworth & Colt's Circulating Library
St. Joseph 1,500
Academy of Science .
St Louis
2,744
Academy of Visitation
St. Louis
4,000
College of the Christian Brothers.
St. Louis
22,000
Deutsche Institute . St. Louis
I, OCO
German Evang. Lutheran, Concordia College. St. Louis
4,8co
Law Library Association St. Louis
8,000
Missouri Medical College St. Louis
1,000
Mrs. Cuthberts Seminary (Young Ladies) . St. Louis
1,500
Odd Fellows Library
St. Louis
4, 000
Public School Library .
St. Louis
40,097
St. Louis Medical College
St. Louis
1,100
St. Louis Mercantile Library
St. Louis
45,000
St. Louis Seminary . .
St. Louis 2,000
St. Louis Turn Verein
St. Louis 2,000
St. Louis University
St. Louis
17,000
Fetterman's Circulating Library
Law Library
Kansas City
3,000
St. Paul's College
Palmyra
2,000
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HISTORY OF MISSOURI.
NAME.
LOCATION.
VOLÜMES.
St. Louis University Society Libraries St Louis
8,000
Ursuline Academy . .
St. Louis
2,000
Washington University
St. Louis
4,500
St. Louis Law School .
St. Louis
3,000
Young Men's Sodality
St. Louis
: 327
Library Association . .
Sedalia
1,500
Public School Library
Sedalia .
1,015
Drury College .
Springfield
2,000
IN 1880.
Newspapers and Periodicals
481
CHARITIES.
State Asylum for Deaf and Dumb . . Fulton.
St. Bridget's Institution for Deaf and Dumb St. Louis.
Institution for the Education of the Blind . St. Louis.
State Asylum for Insane
Fulton.
State Asylum for the Insane
St. Louis.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
Normal Institute Bolivar.
Southeast Missouri State Normal School Cape Girardeau.
Normal School (University of Missouri) Columbia.
Fruitland Normal Institute.
Jackson.
Lincoln Institute (for colored) Jefferson City.
City Normal School .
. St. Louis.
Missouri State Normal School
Warrensburg.
IN 1880.
Number of School Children
IN 1878.
Estimated value of School Property $8,321,399
Total Receipts for Public Schools . 4,207,617
Total Expenditures .
2,406, 139
NUMBER OF TEACHERS.
Male Teachers . 6,239; average monthly pay $36.36.
Female Teachers 5,060 ; average monthly pay 28.09.
The fact that Missouri supports and maintains four hundred and seventy-one newspapers and periodicals, shows that her inhabitants are not only a reading and reflecting people, but that they appreciate " The Press," and its wonderful influ- ence as an educator. The poet has well said :
But mightiest of the mighty means, On which the arm of progress leans, Man's noblest mission to advance, His woes assuage, his weal enhance, His rights enforce, his wrongs redress- Mightiest of mighty is the Press.
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CHAPTER XII.
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS.
Baptist Church-Its History-Congregational-When Founded-Its History-Christian Church -Its History-Cumberland Presbyterian Church-Ils History-Methodist Episcopal Church -Its History-Presbyterian Church-Its History-Protestant Episcopal Church-Its History -United Presbyterian Church-Its History-Unitarian Church-Its History-Roman Cath olic Church-Its History.
The first representatives of religious thought and training, who penetrated the Missouri and Mississippi Valleys, were Pere Marquette, La Salle and others of Catholic persuasion, who performed missionary labor among the Indians. A century afterward came the Protestants. At that early period
" A church in every grove that spread Its living roof above their heads."
constituted for a time, their only house of worship, and yet to them
"No Temple built with hands could vie In glory with its majesty."
In the course of time, the seeds of Protestantism were scattered along the shores of the two great rivers which form the eastern and western boundaries of the State, and still a little later they were sown upon her hill-sides and broad prairies, where they have since bloomed and blossomed as the rose.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
The earliest Anti-Catholic religious denomination, of which there is any record, was organized in Cape Girardeau county in 1806, through the efforts of Rev. David Green, a Baptist, and a native of Virginia. In 1816, the first associa- tion of Missouri Baptists was formed, which was composed of seven churches, all of which were located in the southeastern part of the State. In 1817 a second association of churches was formed, called the Missouri Association, the name being afterwards changed to St. Louis Association. In 1834, a general conven- tion of all the churches of this denomination, was held in Howard County, for the purpose of effecting a central organization, at which time, was commenced what is now known, as the "General Association of Missouri Baptists."
To this body, is committed the State mission work, denominational educa tion, foreign missions and the circulation of religious literature. The Baptist Church has under its control, a number of schools and colleges, the most import ant of which is William Jewell College, located at Liberty, Clay County. As shown by the annual report for 1875, there were in Missiouri, at that date, sixty- one associations, one thousand four hundred churches, eight hundred and twenty- four ministers and eighty-nine thousand six hundred and fifty church members.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
The Congregationalists inaugurated their missionary labors in the State in 1814. Rev. Samuel J. Mills, of Torringford, Connecticut, and Rev. Daniel Smith, of Bennington, Vermont, were sent west by the Massachusetts Congrega- tion Home Missionary Society during that year, and in November, 1814, they preached the first regular Protestant sermons in St. Louis. Rev. Salmon Gid- dings, sent out under the auspices of the Connecticut Congregational Missionary
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Society, organized the first Protestant church in the city, consisting of ten members, constituted Presbyterian. The churches organized by Mr. Giddings were all Presbyterian in their order.
No exclusively Congregational Church was founded until 1852, when the " First Trinitarian Congregational Church of St. Louis" was organized. The next church of this denomination was organized at Hannibal in 1859. Then followed a Welsh church in New Cambria in 1864, and after the close of the war, fifteen churches of the same order were formed in different parts of the State. In 1866, Pilgrim Church, St. Louis, was organized. The General Conference of Churches of Missouri was formed in 1865, which was changed in 1868, to Gener- al Association. In 1866, Hannibal, Kidder, and St. Louis District Associations were formed, and following these, were the Kansas City and Springfield District Associations. This denomination in 1875, had 70 churches, 41 ministers, 3,363 church members, and had also several schools and colleges and one monthly newspaper.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
The earliest churches of this denomination were organized in Callaway, Boone and Howard Counties, some time previously to 1829. The first church was formed in St. Louis in 1836 by Elder R. B. Fife. The first State Sunday School Convention of the Christian Church, was held in Mexico in 1876. Be- sides a number of private institutions, this denomination has three State Institu- tions, all of which have an able corps of professors and have a good attendance of pupils. It has one religious paper published in St. Louis, "The Christian," which is a weekly publication and well patronized. The membership of this church now numbers nearly one hundred thousand in the State and is increasing rapidly. It has more than five hundred organized churches, the greater portion of which are north of the Missouri River.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
In the spring of 1820, the first Presbytery of this denomination west of the Mis- sissippi, was organized in Pike County. This Presbytery included all the territory of Missouri, western Illinois and Arkansas and numbered only four ministers, two of whom resided at the time in Missouri. There are now in the State, twelve Presbyteries, three Synods, nearly three hundred ministers and over twenty thou- sand members. The Board of Missions is located at St. Louis. They have a number of High Schools and two monthly papers published at St. Louis.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
In 1806, Rev. John Travis, a young Methodist minister, was sent out to the "Western Conference" which then embraced the Mississippi Valley, from Green County, Tennessee. During that year Mr. Travis organized a number of small churches. At the close of his conference year, he reported the result of his labors to the Western Conference, which was held at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1870, and showed an aggregate of one hundred and six members and two circuits, one called Missouri and the other Meramec. In 1808, two circuits had been formed, and at each succeeding year the number of circuits and members constantly in- creased, until 1812, when what was called the Western Conference was divided into the Ohio and Tennessee Conferences, Missouri falling into the Tennessee Conference. In 1816, there was another division when the Missouri Annual Con- ference was formed. In 1810, there were four traveling preachers and in 1820, fifteen traveling preachers, with over 2,000 members. In 1836, the territory of the Missouri Conference was again divided when the Missouri Conference includ- ed only the State. In 1840 there were 72 traveling preachers, 177 local ministers and 13,992 church members. Between 1840 and 1850, the church was divided
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by the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1850, the mem- bership of the M. E. Church was over 25,000, and during the succeeding ten years the church prospered rapidly. In 1875, the M. E. Church reported 274 church edifices and 34,156 members ; the M. E. Church, South, reported 443 church edifices and 49,588 members. This denomination has under its control several schools and colleges and two weekly newspapers.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The Presbyterian Church dates the beginning of their missionary efforts in the State as far back as 1814 but the first Presbyterian Church was not organized until 1816 at Bellevue settlement eight miles from St. Louis. The next churches were formed in 1816 and in 1817 at Bonhomme, Pike County. The First Pres- byterian Church was organized in St. Louis in 1817, by Rev. Salmon Giddng. The first Presbytery was organized in 1817 by the Synod of Tennessee with four ministers and four churches. The first Presbyterian house of worship (which was the first Protestant) was commenced in 1719 and completed in 1826. In 1820 a mission was formed among the Osage Indians. In 1831, the Presbytery was divided into three : Missouri, St. Louis and St. Charles. These were erected with a Synod comprising eighteen ministers and twenty-three churches.
The church was divided in 1838, throughout the United States. In 1860 the rolls of the Old and New School Synods together showed 109 ministers and 146 churches. In 1866 the Old School Synod was divided on political questions springing out of the war-a part forming the Old School, or Independent Synod of Missouri, who are connected with the General Assembly South. In 1870, the Old and New School Presbyterians united, since which time this Synod has stead- ily increased until it now numbers more than 12,000 members with more than 220 churches and 150 ministers.
This Synod is composed of six Presbyteries and has under its control one or two institutions of learning and one or two newspapers. That part of the origi- nal Synod which withdrew from the General Assembly remained an independent body until 1874 when it united with the Southern Presbyterian Church. The Synod in 1875 numbered 80 ministers, 140 churches and 9,000 members. It has under its control several male and female institutions of a high order. The St. Louis Presbyterian, a weekly paper, is the recognized organ of the Synod.
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The missionary enterprises of this church began in the State in 1819, when a parish was organized in the City of St. Louis. In 1828, an agent of the Do- mestic and Foreign Missionary Society, visited the city, who reported the condi- tion of things so favorably that Rev. Thomas Horrell was sent out as a missionary and in 1825, he began his labors in St. Louis. A church edifice was completed in 1830. In 1836, there were five clergyman of this denomination in Missouri, who had organized congregations in Boonville, Fayette, St. Charles, Hannibal and other places. In 1840, the clergy and laity met in convention, a diocese was formed, a constitution and canons adopted, and in 1844 a Bishop was chosen, he being the Rev. Cicero S. Hawks.
Through the efforts of Bishop Kemper, Kemper College was founded near St. Louis, but was afterward given up on account of pecuniary troubles. In 1847, the Clark Mission began and in 1849 the Orphans Home, a charitable in- stitution was founded. In 1865, St. Luke's Hospital was established. In 1875, there were in the city of St. Louis, twelve parishes and missions and twelve cler- gymen. This denomination has several schools and colleges, and one newspaper.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
This denomination is made up of the member of the Associate and Associate Reformed churches of the Northern States, which two bodies united in 1858, taking
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the name of United Presbyterian Church of North America. Its members were generally bitterly opposed to the institution of slavery. The first congregation was organized at Warrensburg, Johnson county in 1867. It rapidly increased in numbers, and had, in 1875, ten ministers and five hundred members.
UNITARIAN CHURCH.
This church was formed in 1834, by Rev. W. G. Eliot, in St. Louis. The churches are few in number throughout the State, the membership being probably less than 300, all told. It has a mission house and free school, for poor children, supported by donations.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The earliest written record of the Catholic Church in Missouri shows that Father Watrin performed ministerial services in Ste. Genevieve, in 1760, and in St. Louis in 1766. In 1770, Father Meurin erected a small log church in St. Louis. In 1818, there were in the State, four chapels, and for Upper Louisiana, seven priests. A college and seminary were opened in Perry county about this period, for the education of the young, being the first college west of the Missis- sippi River. In 1824, a college was opened in St. Louis, which is now known as the St. Louis University. In 1826, Father Rosatti was appointed Bishop of St. Louis, and, through his instrumentality, the Sisters of Charity, Sisters of St. Joseph and of the Visitation were founded, besides other benevolent and charita- ble institutions. In 1834 he completed the present Cathedral Church. Churches were built in different portions of the State. In 1847 St. Louis was created an arch-diocese, with Bishop Kenrick, Arch-Bishop.
In Kansas City there are five parish churches, a hospital, a convent and sev- eral parish schools. In 1868 the northwestern portion of the State was erecte . into a separate diocese, with its seat at St. Joseph, and Right-Reverend John J. Hogan appointed Bishop. There were, in 1875, in the City of St, Louis, 34 churches, 27 schools, 5 hospitals, 3 colleges, 7 orphan asylums and 3 female pro- tectorates. There were also 105 priests, 7 male, and 13 female orders, and 20 conferences of St. Vincent de Paul numbering 1, 100 members. In the diocese, outside of St. Louis, there is a college, a male protectorate, 9 convents, about 120 priests, 150 churches and 30 stations. In the diocese of St. Joseph there wer-, in 1875, 21 priests, 29 churches, 24 stations, I college, I monastery, 5 convents and 14 parish schools.
Number of Sunday Schools in 1878 2,067
Number of Teachers in 1878 18,010
Number of Pupils in 1878
139,578
THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS.
Instruction preparatory to ministerial work is given in connection with col- legiate study, or in special theological courses, at :
Central College, (M. E. South) . . Fayette.
Central Wesleyan College (M. E. Church) Warrenton.
Canton. Christian Univesity (Christian) .
Concordia College Seminary (Envangelical Lutheran) St. Louis.
Lewis College (M. E. Church). Glasgow.
St. Vincent's College (Roman Catholic) . Cape Girardeau. Vardeman School of Theology (Baptist)
The last is connected with William Jewell College.
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HISTORY OF ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS.
Her First Settlement-Arrival of the First Steamboat-Removal of the Capital to Jefferson City-When Incorporated-Population by Decades-First Lighted by Gas -- Death of one of her Founders, Pierre Chouteau-Cemeteries -- Financial Crash-Bondholders and Coupon-clippers-Value of Real and Personal Property-Manufacturers-Criticism.
It was nearly a century and a quarter ago that St. Louis's first arrival proclaimed the site of the future metropolis of the Mississippi Valley. In 1762 M. Pierre Laclede Liqueste and his two companions, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau, landed upon the site which was destined to become a great city. They were the avant-couriers and principal members of a com- pany which had certain privileges secured to them by the governor of the Territory of Louisiana, which then included the whole of Missouri, that of trading with the Indians, and which was known as the Louisiana Fur Com- . pany, with the privilege further granted of establishing such posts as their business might demand west of the Mississippi and on the Missouri rivers. They had been on a prospecting tour and knew something of the country, and on February 15, 1774, Laclede, with the above named companions, took possession of the ground which is now the city of St. Louis. They estab- lished a trading-post, took formal possession of the country and called their post St. Louis. In 1768 Captain Rios took possession of the post as a part of Spanish territory, ceded to it by France by the treaty of Paris, and it re- mained under the control of successive Spanish governors until March 10, 1804. The Spanish government, by the treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800, retroceded the territory to France, and, by purchase, France ceded the whole country to the United States, April 30, 1803. In October of the same year Congress passed an act approving the purchase, and authorizing the presi- dent to take possession of the country or Territory of Louisiana. This was done February 15, 1804, when Captain Amos Stoddard, of the United States army, and the agent of the United States, received from Don Carlos De- hault Delapus, a surrender of the post of St. Louis and the Territory of Upper Louisiana. On the 10th of March the keys to the government house and the archives and public property were turned over or delivered to the representative of the United States, the Spanish flag was lowered, the stars
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and stripes thrown to the breeze, accompanied with the roar of artillery and music, and the transfer was complete. In 1805 St. Louis had its first post- office established, and the place was incorporated as a town in 1809. It did not grow very fast, but was the recognized headquarters for the territory of the west and northwest. The French from Indiana and other points had settled there, and the town was decidedly French in its character and population. The Missouri Fur Company which had its headquarters there was organized in 1808, of which Pierre Chouteau was the head. His associates were Manuel Lisa, Wm. Clark, Sylvester Labadie, and others, and such familiar names as the Astors, Bent, Sublette, Cabanne, General Ashly and Robert Campbell were prominently identified with the town and its progress. The first paper was issued July 2, 1808.
In 1812 the Territory of Louisiana, or that part north, was changed and named the Territory of Missouri, and was given Territorial rights, with a representation on the floor of Congress. St. Louis was the seat of the Ter- ritorial government until 1820, and the first legislature met in that town, and part of its proceedings was the removal of the seat of the government to St: Charles, where it remained until located at Jefferson City in 1826. In 1822 St. Louis began to take on more style, and was incorporated as a city December 9th of that year. There had been a bank established in 1817, and quite a large number of business houses were built and occupied, and a number of loan offices chartered. When St. Louis became an Ameri- can city her population was 925; this was in 1804. When the Territory was named Missouri, and she was the seat of government in 1812, her pop- ulation had reached 2,000. William Deckers laid the first pavement .in 1818. A ferry had been started in 1804. The first steamboat arrived in 1817. It was a low-pressure steamboat, built at Pittsburgh, and named the General Pike. It arrived August 2d, and was greeted by the entire popula- tion, who gazed upon her with wonder and astonishment. The Indians were a badly scared crowd, and could not be induced to come near it. The first steamboat stemmed the tide of the Missouri in 1819, and the same year the first steamboat from New Orleans put in its appearance at St. Louis. It was twenty-seven days en route.
BOUNDARIES AND INCORPORATION.
In 1820 the population had reached 4,928, and when incorporated in 1822 was believed to number about 5,000, not much immigration having come in. The boundary lines of the city when she received her charter were defined as follows: The line commencing at the middle of Mill Creek, just below the gas works, thence west to Seventh Street and up Seventh Street to a point due west of "Roy's. Tower," thence to the river. The city plat embraced 385 acres of ground.
The first church was built in 1824, and was of the Presbyterian denomi- nation. The second was an Episcopal Church, erected in 1825. A new
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court-house was built in 1827, and also a market-house. These old-time landmarks have long since disappeared, and no mark is left to tell the tale of their being. The spot or location is recorded, but what that availeth is not of comprehension to the generation of to-day.
ADVANCEMENT.
The first brick house was said to have been erected in 1814. The first mayor of the city was Win. C. Lane. The St. Louis University was founded in 1829; the Catholic Cathedral was completed in 1832 and consecrated by Bishop Rosetti.
In 1833 the population of St. Louis was about six thousand, and the tax- able property, real and personal, aggregated $2,745,000. St. Louis, like all other cities, felt the blighting effects of the financial crash of 1837. still her progress was not wholly checked. Her vitality was great and her resources spread over the territory, in many cases, out of the reach of the troubles of the times. Her fur trade was immense and the crash had little to do with that, so that while she felt the depression in her financial circles, her commercial prosperity was in no wise checked. There is very little more in the history of St. Louis to record than the noting of her general prosper- ity and steady onward progress for the next decade.
Her population in 1840 had risen to 16,469, and in 1844, 34,140. The population had more than doubled in four years. Fine buildings had arisen in place of the old fur warehouses of the early French settlers. Stately res- idences appeared in the suburbs; and in all that gave promise of a great and influential city, she had advanced and was advancing rapidly. The Mercantile Library was founded in 1848, and gas had been introduced the year pre- vious, the city being first lighted on the night of November 4, 1847. In the great cholera year, 1849, the disease assumed an epidemic form, and of that dread scourge the people had a fearful experience. The progress of St. Louis had been handsomely commemorated on the eighty-third anniversary of its founding, the date being February 15, 1847. Among the living, and the only survivor of the memorable trio who first landed and located the city, was the venerable Pierre Chonteau, who, with his brother, had accompanied Laclede Liqueste, to locate a trading-post for the fur company of which they were members. He was a prominent figure in the celebration, and though at an advanced age, he was in the enjoyment of his full faculties, and was keenly alive to the wonderful progress of the city in the eighty-three years of its life. In 1849, the epidemic year, all that was mortal of Pierre Chou- teau was consigned to its last resting-place, and with him all living memory ceased of the first settlement and of the rise and progress of the city. From that date history could record but written facts, the oral record had ceased to exist. His elder brother, Auguste Chouteau, had preceded him to the mystic beyond, having departed this life in February, 1829.
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