Kingsbury, Lilburn A. (1884-1983), Collection, 1816-1983 (C3724)
9.2 linear feet and 16 oversize volumes; 6 card files
INTRODUCTION
The personal papers and collected materials of Lilburn A. Kingsbury of Howard County, Missouri. Kingsbury was an insurance agent, farmer, orchardist, bank clerk, local historian, writer, genealogist, musician, and antique collector.
DONOR INFORMATION
The Lilburn A. Kingsbury Collection was donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by Kingsbury on 27 September 1960 (SHS Accession No. 167). Additions to the collection were made by Kingsbury on 12 September 1978 (SHS Accession No. 2186) and 16 May 14 June 20 July 1983 (SHS Accession No. 2475). Other additions were made by Jewell Vivian on 13 July 1983 (SHS Accession No. 2481), Warren Kingsbury on 16 September 1983 (SHS Accession No. 2491), Charles van Ravenswaay on 12 October 1983 (SHS Accession No. 2497), and A.E. and Rebecca Schroeder on 24 May 1985 (SHS Accession No. 2462). The University of Missouri transferred material to the society on 1 February 1984 (SHS Accession No. 2510) and on 16 October 1984 (SHS Accession No. 2542).
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Lilburn Adkin Kingsbury was born 14 October 1884, to Robert Taylor and Alice Virginia Smith Kingsbury. He lived his entire life on the family farm near New Franklin, Missouri, until his death on July 1, 1983. He was a third-generation descendant of Jere Kingsbury, who immigrated to the Boonslick area of the Missouri Territory in 1816.
Kingsbury attended Central Methodist College in Fayette, Missouri, for two years before leaving in 1905 to become a cashier for the New Franklin Bank. He left the bank to devote more time to his insurance business, begun in 1908, and to assist his father with the family’s apple orchards.
He held memberships in the New Franklin Methodist Church, the State Historical Society of Missouri, the Boonslick Historical Society, the Missouri State Writers Guild, the Howard Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, the Order of Eastern Star, and the National Button Society. He was a founding member and the first president of the Cooper-Howard County Historical Society, which later became the Boonslick Historical Society.
Kingsbury was a recognized authority on the history of the Boonslick area of Missouri. From the 1960s until his
death, he wrote several weekly newspaper columns pertaining to local history. During the same period, he was
a frequent guest speaker before historical, educational, and fraternal groups. One of Kingsbury’s most notable
achievements was the recording of the tombstone inscriptions in 1937 and 1938 for every known, marked grave in over 200 Howard County cemeteries.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The historical and family records compiled by Kingsbury contain a wealth of information for genealogists, social historians, and historians of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Missouri. Nearly all of the records pertain to Howard County, Missouri, or to the Kingsbury family. Records of other families, of neighboring Cooper County, and of the state of Missouri are secondary. Because of the nature of this collection, it has been extensively indexed. In nearly
all cases, however, personal names are indexed by surname only.
The Kingsbury Collection has been arranged into fourteen series according to type of material:
Fuller descriptions of the series are in the Folder List, which follows the Scope and Content Note
The Kingsbury collection is a significant resource for anyone doing genealogical research in Howard County. The card files, family histories, genealogical records, and the correspondence series all contain helpful and extensive family records. The correspondence, historical records, and reminiscences collected by Kingsbury also offer researchers a significant collection of materials pertaining to territorial Missouri, the Boonslick region, the Civil War, social customs and rituals, religion, agriculture, business, education, the changes caused by modern technology, and the affairs of a pioneering Missouri family for more than three generations. In addition Lilburn Kingsbury was a copious and gifted correspondent. His letters are both detailed and entertaining and are of special interest to the social historian.
Parts of the collection have been microfilmed for conservation purposes. Microfilmed folders and volumes are
indicated on the folder list.
FOLDER LIST
| Card Files 1-4 | Cemetery Card Files. Record of Howard County, Missouri, tombstone inscriptions collected by Kingsbury from 1937 until his death. Includes all legible information contained on the stones for 1,971 distinct surnames located in over 200 cemeteries and burial sites. There are an estimated 12,000 names contained in this file. Arrangement is alphabetical by surname and then alphabetical by the cemetery name within each surname. A list of the cemetery names and their locations as taken from Kingsbury’s notes follows this inventory. A copy of a Howard County plat book showing the locations of the cemeteries also follows this inventory. The original plat book is in the possession of the State Historical Society of Missouri. |
| Card Files 5-6 | Historical Card Files. A collection of Howard and Cooper County, Missouri, historical notes on various topics, including obituaries and biographical sketches. These card files are transcriptions taken primarily from the Fayette Howard County Advertiser of the 1870s through the 1890s. Most entries include the paper’s date and the page and column number. Also included are notes transcribed from other printed sources and from Kingsbury’s correspondence and reminiscences. The major topics include churches, schools, businesses, blacks, women, social customs, temperance, and the Missouri towns of Fayette, New Franklin, Roanoke, Glasgow, and Boonville. These cards are arranged alphabetically. A list of subject divisions and cross-references follows this inventory. |
Personal, family, and miscellaneous correspondence received, written, and collected by Kingsbury. The correspondence series is arranged in four subseries. Folders 1-119 contain Kingsbury’s personal, genealogical, and business correspondence. Folders 120-188 contain correspondence between Lilburn Kingsbury and various family members and personal friends. Folders 189-218 contain the correspondence of Kingsbury family members collected by Kingsbury. Folders 219-222 contain the correspondence of the Craig, Rankin, and Snoddy families and unidentified
correspondence collected by Kingsbury.
| f. 1-119 | Personal, genealogical, and business correspondence of Lilburn Kingsbury, 1904-1983. Arranged chronologically, this correspondence consists primarily of letters received by Kingsbury and a few copies of letters he sent. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1927 to 1983, with the most from the 1930s when Kingsbury began compiling a family genealogy. Much of the correspondence from the 1970s and 1980s consists of genealogical inquiries received by Kingsbury. Also included is correspondence relating to buttons, antique collecting, and Howard County history. Correspondence relating to Kingsbury’s insurance agency and other business interests is minimal. Correspondents of note include Missouri author Ward Allison Dorrance, relatives Warren T. Kingsbury, Billie Masters, and Joida Whitten, and various officers of the Missouri Writers Guild. |
| f. 120-188 | Personal correspondence between Lilburn Kingsbury and various family members and personal friends, 1933-1983. Kingsbury kept this correspondence in a separate series, which is arranged alphabetically by the name of the correspondent and then chronologically within. |
| f. 120-125 | Correspondence with Lilburn Kingsbury Agnew of Great Falls, Montana, 1933-1952. Dating primarily from the 1930s, these letters contain family news, genealogical information, and reminiscences of Howard County, Missouri, during the 1870s. |
| f. 121 | Agnew’s reminiscences of a steamboat trip on the Mississippi River. |
| f. 126-127 | Correspondence from Virgil C. Blankenbaker of Virgelle, Montana, 1934-1936. Blankenbaker became a prominent Montana rancher and state politician. These letters pertain primarily to ranching, genealogy, Blankenbaker’s reminiscences of his youth in Howard County, Missouri, and his campaigns for the Montana State House of Representatives in 1932 and the State Senate in 1934. Included are several letters from Sidney J. Blankenbaker of Broadus, Montana, and one from Mrs. Virgil Blankenbaker. |
| f. 128 | Correspondence from Flosserfina Faller and the Philippine Leprosy Mission, Inc., 1957-1970. Faller, a victim of Hansen’s Disease, writes of the sufferings she and her family underwent at Culion
Sanitarium, Palawan, Philippine Islands. Kingsbury became acquainted with the Faller family through the mission
activities of the Methodist Church and helped to support them financially. |
| f. 129 | Correspondence received from Kate L. Gregg, historian and instructor at Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri, 1938-1941. Also included is an outline of a Gregg speech entitled “Writing a History Paper.” The correspondence pertains primarily to Gregg’s research on the Santa Fe Trail, including the details of an automobile trip she took to trace the trail from Missouri to New Mexico. |
| f. 130-132 | Correspondence from Jean A. Gulloch of London, England, 1949-1954. Many of the buttons collected by Kingsbury were purchased by Gulloch from London shops. The correspondence focuses on descriptions of the buttons, which Gulloch purchased but also deals with family news, Gulloch’s travel plans, her views on British politics and U.S.-British relations, and food shortages in England following World War II. |
| f. 133-140 | Correspondence and enclosures from attorney Louisa Terrill Huggs of Corpus Christi, Texas, 1973-1983, n.d.. The correspondence pertains to Huggs’ opinions of Texas, various national political figures, religion, and women’s rights. Also included are reminiscences of her numerous travels through the United States and to Europe and her childhood in Moberly, Missouri. Other materials include humorous anecdotes and genealogical information. |
| f. 141-142 | Correspondence with William Ross Lloyd of San Pedro, California, 1934, 1940-1943, 1952. Lloyd, a retired Methodist Episcopal minister, writes about his childhood in Howard County, Missouri. Principal topics include schools, teachers, religion, temperance, New Franklin and the Kingsbury family from the 1860s to the 1890s. Included are copies of several letters from Kingsbury to Lloyd. |
| f. 143 | Correspondence from G.K. Richardson of Roswell, New Mexico, pertaining to his early life in Glasgow, Missouri, 1949-1951. Richardson describes his experiences as a student and, later, as a
banker in Glasgow. Included is information about many of the town’s prominent families during the period of the
1870s through the 1910s. |
| f. 144-146 | Correspondence from Ann Miller Schillinger of Mt. Kisco, New York, 1975-1977, 1980. Schillinger, a descendant of several Howard County, Missouri, families, writes primarily about the Morrison and Ferguson families, the Morrison family estate known as Lilac Hill, Fayette, Missouri, and a collection of documents in her possession pertaining to Alfred Williams Morrison. Included are copies of some of the Morrison documents. |
| f. 147-148 | Correspondence and enclosures from Marguerite Shipley of Reisterstown, Maryland, 1979-1982. Pertains primarily to genealogy of the Coates, Craig, Rawlings, Embree, and Brummett families. Includes copies of Daughters of the American Revolution applications for descendants of the Rawlings family. |
| f. 149-151 | Correspondence from Agnes Lee Smith of Kokomo, Indiana, pertaining primarily to genealogy of the Blankenbaker, Garr, Kingsbury, Smith, and Yager families, 1934-1939, 1943, n.d.. Included is information about numerous family photographs and heirlooms, copies of letters describing Howard County in the 1830s and 1840s, and information on the migration of various ancestors from Virginia to Kentucky and later to Missouri. Also included is mention of several trips taken by Smith and Kingsbury to Virginia during the 1930s. |
| f. 152-153 | Correspondence from William H. Stapleton of Dallas, Texas, pertaining primarily to genealogy, 1934-1935. The principal families included are Stapleton, Kingsbury, Scotten, Welch, Dameron, Vaughan, Smith, Horner, Tindall, Terrill, Thornton, Chandler, and Gearhart. Also includes an occasional mention of
Texas’ climate, the effects of the Great Depression in Texas, and some family reminiscences. |
| f. 154-188 | Correspondence and clippings exchanged between Kingsbury and Charles Van Ravenswaay, a native of Boonville, Missouri, 1933-1983. This correspondence gives an excellent overview of Kingsbury’s life and also contains much information about Van Ravenswaay’s directorships of the Missouri Historical
Society, the Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, and the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware.
This series of correspondence is especially strong in the history of Howard and Cooper Counties, the changing social values and customs of the early twentieth century, local events of the New Franklin and Boonville areas, antique collecting, family news, Howard County agriculture, old age, and the activities of the Boonslick Historical Society. Also included are several letters to Van Ravenswaay from Lillian Kingsbury Edmonston, Hazel Price, and Jewell Vivian regarding Kingsbury’s final illness. |
| f. 189-208 | Correspondence and letter books of Kingsbury’s father, Robert Taylor Kingsbury, Sr., 1868, 1886, 1912-1938, n.d. Includes personal, family, and business correspondence. The letter books contain primarily correspondence and financial records relating to the production, marketing, and storage of apples. |
| f. 189-194 | Personal and business correspondence, 1868, 1886, 1912-1938, received by Robert T. Kingsbury, Sr. Included are letters from Virgil Blankenbaker of Montana pertaining to family news, Henry T. Burckhartt of California reminiscing about Howard County and supporting evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, and Kingsbury regarding his 1928 voyage to Barcelona, Spain, aboard a mule boat. Also included are several letters regarding the 1928 presidential election which endorse Robert T. Kingsbury’s opposition to James A. Reed and which oppose the liquor position and Catholic sentiments of Democratic presidential candidate Alfred E. Smith. |
| f. 195-208 | MICROFILM |
| f. 195 | Letter Book. Correspondence, January 1912-May 1913, and financial records, 1912. |
| f. 196 | Letter Book. Correspondence, May-September 1913 |
| f. 197 | Letter Book. Correspondence, September 1913-April 1914, and financial records, 1913. |
| f. 198 | Letter Book. Correspondence, April 1914-May 1915, and financial records, 1914. |
| f. 199 | Letter Book. Correspondence, May 1915-October 1916, and financial records, 1915. Includes several letters regarding prohibition and politics and copies of newspaper editorials written by Robert T. Kingsbury. |
| f. 200 | Letter Book. Correspondence, November 1916-October 1917, and financial records, 1916-October 1917. |
| f. 201 | Letter Book. Correspondence, October 1917-August 1918. Includes several letters to former business partners in Coucho County, Texas. |
| f. 202 | Letter Book. Correspondence, August-December 1918, and financial records, 1918. |
| f. 203 | Letter Book. Correspondence, January 1919-August 1920. |
| f. 204 | Letter Book. Financial records, March 1919-December 1921. |
| f. 205 | Letter Book. Correspondence, September 1920-March 1922. |
| f. 206 | Letter Book. Correspondence, April 1922-January 1923. |
| f. 207 | Letter Book. Financial records, January 1922-December 1923. |
| f. 208 | Letter Book. Financial records, January 1924-December 1925. |
| f. 209-218 | Kingsbury family correspondence, which includes original letters as well as numerous photocopies and typed transcriptions, 1819-1983. Major topics include Missouri immigration, Howard County, the Civil War, blacks, religion, and social customs. Also included is correspondence pertaining to Virginia, Kentucky, Montana, Texas, California, Oregon, and New York. |
| f. 209 | Letters, 1819-1853, pertaining to early Missouri settlement, agriculture, commodity prices, and transporting livestock by steamboat from St. Louis to Natchez, Mississippi. |
| f. 210 | Letters, 1857-1868, pertaining to family news, the Civil War in Missouri, Confederate prisoners in Gratiot Prison, St. Louis, and the Oregon Trail. |
| f. 211 | Letters, 1870, of family members in Montana, Texas and New Franklin. Many pertain to Nellie Kingsbury who died of consumption in 1870. |
| f. 212 | Letters, 1871-1874, principally between sisters Minnie Smith Kingsbury of Texas and Alice Smith Kingsbury of New Franklin. Also letters from Lilburn S. Kingsbury of Texas and Adkin W. Kingsbury of Montana to their father, Horace Kingsbury, of New Franklin. |
| f. 213 | Letters, 1875-1899, of Adkin W. Kingsbury and Lilburn S. Kingsbury concerning Montana and Missouri. |
| f. 214 | Original and typed transcriptions of letters, 1903-1912, from Lilburn A. Kingsbury to various family members. Topics include family news, weddings, parties, black house servants, religion, music, and Howard County gossip. |
| f. 215 | Letters, 1913-1917, of Ernest L. Kingsbury and Will W. Kingsbury. |
| f. 216 | Principally the correspondence, 1921-1930, of Alice Kingsbury. Also includes the will of Lena Kingsbury Bell. |
| f. 217 | Letters, 1939-1963, regarding reminiscences of the Civil War and musician George Frederick Kuemmel of Glasgow, Missouri. |
| f. 218 | Letters, 1966-1983, primarily of Anna Rose Kingsbury Darneal and Lillian Kingsbury Edmonston. |
| f. 219-222 | Miscellaneous correspondence collected by Kingsbury, but with no identified connection to the Kingsbury family, 1838, 1848-1899, 1955. |
| f. 219 | Two letters, 1838, 1863, from the Craig family regarding Cooper County and the Civil War. Also correspondence, 1848-1866, of the Rankin family of Cooper County regarding the Civil War in Missouri and California, a trip to California by steamboat and wagon train, California agriculture, mining in California and
Idaho, and the prospects of homesteading in Washington Territory. |
| f. 220 | Correspondence, 1865-1899, received by James S. and James Wess Snoddy of Boonsboro, Missouri. Topics include family news, social activities, and Howard County people. Includes poetry, farm product advertisements, and political advertisements. |
| f. 221-222 | Correspondence, April-November 1955, from a woman identified only as Mary. The letters concern her travels in Europe and were intended to be circulated among family members. |
| f. 223-232 | Biographical sketches and related information pertaining to various members of the Kingsbury family, persons related to the Kingsbury family, and unrelated Howard County families. These sketches are arranged alphabetically by their principal surnames. Genealogical information and a wide variety of materials pertaining to nineteenth-century immigration and the social history of Missouri are included. |
| f. 223 | Adams, Beal, Bell, Blankenbaker, and Cooper |
| f. 224 | Elliott, Estill, and Gearhart |
| f. 225-228 | Hughes and Kingsbury |
| f. 229 | Kinney, Leveridge, MacDonald, and McGirk |
| f. 230 | Patton and Smith |
| f. 231 | Smith |
| f. 232 | Stapleton, Stewart, Turley, Welch, Williams and Yager |
| f. 233-269 | Legal, financial, estate, and personal papers pertaining to various members of the Kingsbury family, related families and other families of Howard and Cooper Counties. These items
have been arranged alphabetically by their principal surnames. |
| f. 233 | Alsop family papers. |
| f. 234 | Two volumes, 1849 to c. 1854, kept by Jonas Blankenbaker and William J. Smith as business ledgers for the Milland Distillery, Franklin, Missouri. Identifies and includes the accounts of slaves and free blacks. Also includes a record of the purchases made by several forty-niners preparing to emigrate to California. MICROFILM |
| f. 235 | Blythe, Boggs, Boon, Callaway, Carpenter, Carson, Gearhart, Hughes, and Jordan families. Includes lists of slaves owned, slave sale bills, land grants, wills, and a pedigree and performance affidavit for a racehorse owned by W.C. Boon. |
| f. 236 | Adkin W., Alice, Annie, and F.D. Kingsbury papers. Includes a graduation essay, c. 1869, from the Columbia (Missouri) Baptist College and an autograph album dated 1883. |
| f. 237-239 | Horace Kingsbury papers, 1854-1890, which consist principally of land and estate records. |
| f. 240 | Wills of Horace M. and Jeremiah Kingsbury dated 1946 and 1862. |
| f. 241 | Lilburn A. Kingsbury papers. |
| f. 242 | 1869 graduation essay delivered by Nellie Kingsbury at Science Hill School in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Also included is a Science Hill School catalogue for 1933-1934. |
| f. 243-246 | Robert T. Kingsbury, Sr. land and business records, 1871-1936, of |
| f. 247-250 | Sallie Smith Kingsbury papers, including a copy of her 1868 journal, which contains an account of her journey from Howard County to Kentucky. The journal includes descriptions of steamboat and railroad travel, social activities, various relatives, women’s fashions, a Fourth of July celebration, and a visit to Mammoth Cave. |
| f. 251 | William Wallace Kingsbury papers, including a journal kept by him while ranching in New Mexico in 1896. |
| f. 252 | Leakey and Lee family papers. |
| f. 253 | Scott family papers. |
| f. 254-255 | Estate papers and an account book, 1838-1850, kept by William J. Smith. Included are records for the expense of hiring and sustaining slaves, family and agricultural accounts, and the records for a cooperage business. Folder 255 on MICROFILM |
| f. 256-260 | Snoddy and Summers family papers. Included is a journal of Howard County events kept by James S. Snoddy, 1893-1895. |
| f. 261-265 | The papers of David Wilcoxen, 1821-1875. |
| f. 266-268 | Ledger and account books kept by Hiram Wilkerson for the Boonsboro (Missouri) Mill from 1870 to 1888. |
| f. 269 | Wolfskill and Yager family papers. |
| f. 270-299 | Genealogical materials collected and compiled by Kingsbury. Includes charts, notes, historical sketches and reminiscences, and fragments of correspondence. These records primarily trace the Kingsbury family and the closely related families of Blankenbaker, Chancellor, Chandler, Gearhart, Hughes, Smith, Stapleton, Tindall, and Yager. This series is arranged alphabetically by family names. |
| f. 270 | Adams, Amick, Bannon, Bartee, Bealmer, Becker, and Blackwell |
| f. 271 | Blankenbaker |
| f. 272 | Boggs |
| f. 273 | Bradly, Briscoe, Bronaugh, Brown, Browning, Burckhartt, and Burns |
| f. 274 | Cain, Callaway, Callison, Campbell, Carpenter, Carson, and Chancellor |
| f. 275-276 | Chandler |
| f. 277 | Chenault, Clark, Collison, Cooper, Cramer, Crews, Cunningham, Davenport, Dazey, Dismukes, Dodson, Drake, and Duff |
| f. 278 | Dye, Dyer, Elder, Feland, Ferrill, Finks, Finnell, and Garr |
| f. 279-280 | Gearhart |
| f. 281 | Gibson, Gravely, Grimes, Hancock, Hardesty, Harris, Heberling, Hicks, Hoff, Hudson, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, and Kardell |
| f. 282-284 | Kingsbury |
| f. 285 | Kirby |
| f. 286 | Klusmeier, Lawless, Leach, Leakey, and Lee |
| f. 287 | Lingle, Lloyd, McClung, McCubbin, McCully, McDaniel, McGrew, and Marsh |
| f. 288 | Martin, Megraw, Miller, Milner, Mitchell, Moffett, Montgomery, Myers, and Nevin |
| f. 289 | Papst, Phinney, Pulver, Rawlins, Robertson, Robinson, Russell, Scanland, Scotten, Seags, and Shepherd |
| f. 290-293 | Smith |
| f. 294 | Stapleton, Starke, and Stephens |
| f. 295 | Taylor and Tindall |
| f. 296 | Urquhartt, Warden, Watkins, Webb, Wellington, Whitmire, and Whitten |
| f. 297 | Williams and Wolfskill |
| f. 298-299 | Yager, Yancey, and Yowell
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| f. 300-358 | Historical records collected or compiled by Kingsbury. These records pertain principally to Howard County and are arranged alphabetically by type of record. |
| f. 300 | Business records. Two unidentified business ledgers. MICROFILM |
| f. 301-309 | Cemetery records. Information about the names, location, and physical condition of Howard County cemeteries, and lists of early burials in Howard County. |
| f. 310 | Census records. An abstract of the 1900 U.S. census of Franklin Township in Howard County and New Franklin, Missouri. |
| f. 311-343 | Church Records |
| f. 311-314 | Histories of various Missouri churches arranged alphabetically by name of church. |
| f. 315-318 | Clark’s Chapel. Membership lists and records of the women’s missionary societies, 1920-1930 and 1937-1948. |
| f. 318-334 | New Franklin Methodist Church. Includes correspondence, financial records, building specifications, and blueprints for a new building constructed in 1925 and 1926. Also included are minutes and membership lists for the women’s missionary societies, 1892-1899 and 1959-1963, and quarterly conference records, 1884-1887, 1908-1912, and 1918-1932. |
| f. 335 | Organizational records of United Baptist Church of Boonsborough, 1858. |
| f. 335-343 | Wooldridge Methodist Church. Minutes and financial records of women’s missionary society, 1923-1952. |
| f. 344 | Court Records. Copies and transcriptions of legal documents filed in Howard County Circuit Court, 1816-1873. Most pertain to the Kingsbury family. |
| f. 345-354 | Marriage Records. Chronological and alphabetical compilations of recorded Howard County marriages. |
| f. 345-346 | Chronological list of marriages, 1816-1837. Included are the names of the groom, bride, the conducting official, and the recording clerk, and the dates of the ceremony and the recording. |
| f. 347-348 | Alphabetical list of marriages, 1816-1833. Included are names of the bride, groom, and the conducting official, and the date of the ceremony. |
| f. 349-354 | Alphabetical list of marriages, 1834-1865. Included are the names of the bride, the groom, and the conducting official, and the date of the ceremony |
| f. 355 | School records. Information about schools, teachers, and students in Howard County. A few reminiscences are included with the lists of students and teachers. |
| f. 356-358 | Transcriptions. Transcriptions of early historical articles taken from a variety of Missouri newspapers. The articles are arranged chronologically and pertain primarily to Howard County churches, schools, businesses, and social societies. Also included are a few obituaries and marriage announcements. |
| f. 359 | Included are land ownership maps for portions of Kentucky and Howard County, Missouri; a map showing the location of historic sites to Cooper and Howard Counties; a plat map of New
Franklin, Missouri, showing the location of the original homes and businesses; and architectural plans and drawings and crayon sketches for the Horace Kingsbury and William J. Smith homes in Howard County.
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| f. 360-399 | Photographs and negatives taken and collected by Kingsbury. They are arranged alphabetically by family names and subject. These photographs contain numerous views of early Missouri architecture, interior design and furnishings, and clothing and dress from the 1880s through the 1920s. |
| f. 360 | Auctions; Automobiles—Service stations; Baptism; Bell family; Blankenbaker family; and Bouldin family |
| f. 361 | Blacks; Boonslick Salt Springs; Bragg family; Bridges; and Buttons |
| f. 362 | Carriages and carts; Cemeteries; and Cemetery inscriptions |
| f. 363 | Chancellor family and Chandler family |
| f. 364 | Churches |
| f. 365 | Coombs family; Crigler family; Darneal family; Davis family; and Dye family |
| f. 366 | Edmonston family; Elliott family; Feland family; Fish; and Forrest family |
| f. 367-372 | Furniture and interior decorating |
| f. 373 | Gearhart family; General stores; Hahatonka, Camden County, Missouri; Hartmann family; and Hays family |
| f. 374-379 | Houses, Howard County, Missouri |
| f. 380-386 | Kingsbury family and Kinney family; |
| f. 387 | Lee family; Leonard family; Lloyd family; Menke family; Missouri, Boonville; Missouri, Estill; and Missouri, Fayette |
| f. 388 | Missouri, Franklin Junction; Missouri, New Franklin; and Missouri, Richmond |
| f. 389 | Mules; Pigs; Powers family; St. Charles College, Missouri; and Samples family |
| f. 390 | Schools; Sikes family; and Simpich family |
| f. 391 | Smith family |
| f. 392 | Societies and lodges; Steamboats; and Temperance rally |
| f. 393 | Tintypes |
| f. 394 | Tindall family and Travel—Algeria |
| f. 395 | Travel—Egypt; Travel—Italy; Genoa; and Travel—Italy, Rome |
| f. 396 | Travel—Italy, Rome |
| f. 397 | Travel—Italy, Venice and Travel—Spain, Barcelona |
| f. 398 | Travel—Spain, Barcelona |
| f. 399 | Weddings; West family; Whitlow family; and Woodson family
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| f. 400-419 | A variety of historical and personal items of interest collected by Kingsbury. These items are arranged alphabetically according to the type or the subject of the material. |
| f. 400-401 | Announcements. Marriage announcements arranged alphabetically by the name of the groom and funeral announcements arranged alphabetically by the name of the deceased. |
| f. 402-404 | Buttons. Articles and programs related to button collecting and miscellaneous records of buttons purchased in France for Kingsbury. |
| f. 405-406 | Catalogues. An 1869 nursery catalogue from Brookfield, Missouri; a 1907 auction catalogue for city lots in Franklin Junction, Missouri; and a c. 1920 Southern Land and Investment Company catalogue and advertisement for lands in Florida. |
| f. 407-408 | Ephemera. Greeting cards, medical prescriptions, patent medicine advertisements, 1935 old age assistance applications, and letterhead stationery for boxer Jim Hopper. |
| f. 409-410 | Historic Sites. Articles, papers, and printed handbills regarding historic homes and sites in Cooper and Howard Counties. Includes a copy of a 1981 paper by James Denny entitled “Form and Style in Missouri’s Ante-Bellum Domestic Architecture.” |
| f. 411-412 | Historical Narratives. A 1940 narrative entitled “Boonslick Country” and an undated narrative relating to a St. Charles, Missouri, historical pageant. |
| f. 413-414 | Poetry. Includes numerous published and unpublished poems by Xena Kingsbury Bragg. |
| f. 415-416 | Program and Cards. Includes literary society programs from Christian College and Stephens College in Columbia, New Franklin and Fayette public school programs, a program of the MacDowell Music Club of Boonville, and a transcript of the October 1977 Boonslick Historical Society meeting honoring Kingsbury for 40-years service. |
| f. 417-418 | Societies. Includes a 1939 membership list of the Boonslick Historical Society, information about Kingsbury’s membership in the Masons, a membership list of the New Franklin Hunting and Fishing Club, the bylaws and minutes of a Sons of America debating society for March and April 1857, and a list of members belonging to the Clover Club of Boonville in 1889. |
| f. 419 | Miscellaneous notes, souvenirs, and records kept by Kingsbury while in Europe in 1953. |
| f. 420-427 | Miscellaneous reminiscences and anecdotes collected by Kingsbury. These materials are arranged alphabetically by subject and pertain primarily to Howard County and Missouri history. |
| f. 420 | Anecdotes referring to blacks, the Civil War, religion, and women. |
| f. 421 | Biographical reminiscences |
| f. 422-423 | Materials referring to blacks, including several reminiscences of black conjurer Guinea Sam. |
| f. 424-425 | Kingsbury family reminiscences, principally by Robert T. Kingsbury, Sr. and William W. Kingsbury. |
| f. 426 | Includes information about temperance, railroads, brick making, floods, and the Civil War in Cooper and Howard Counties. |
| f. 427 | Reminiscences about religion and schools |
| f. 428-436 | Miscellaneous notes collected by Kingsbury for use in writing articles on Missouri history. These materials are arranged alphabetically by subject. |
| f. 428 | Boonslick Salt Manufacturing Company; Boonslick Salt Springs; Boonslick settlement; Boonville; Nicholas S. Burckhartt; Thomas Campbell; Carson family; Central College; Church hymns; and Civil War. |
| f. 429 | Clark’s Chapel; W.G. Edwards; W.A. Feland; Franklin; Thomas Fristoe; Good Templars; Hardeman family; and Horses. |
| f. 430 | Howard County |
| f. 431 | Nannie Hughes; Claiborne F. Jackson; Kingsbury family; Kinney family; and William A. Landram. |
| f. 432 | Masonic Lodge; Methodist Church; Military; Missouri; Mt. Moriah Christian Church; Mt. Nebo Baptist Church; Mt. Pleasant Christian Church; Mt. Zion Baptist Church; and Francis Murphy. |
| f. 433 | New Franklin; Emilie Brown Owings; Obituaries; Samuel Ravenel; Salt Creek Church; Salt Springs; Santa Fe Trail; Schools; Slaves; Steamboats; Temperance; George Tomkins; and Warrington. |
| f. 434-436 | Date books containing miscellaneous notes referring to Methodists, New Franklin, Adelphi College, obituaries and the Civil War. |
| f. 437-522 | Notes, outlines, and drafts of speeches and published and unpublished articles. Most were written by Kingsbury. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject. |
| f. 437 | Agriculture |
| f. 438-441 | Antiques |
| f. 442 | Apples |
| f. 443 | David and Joshua Barton |
| f. 444-445 | Blacks |
| f. 446 | Boonslick Historical Society |
| f. 447 | Boonslick State Park and Salt Springs |
| f. 448-456 | “Boonslick Sketches.” A series of historical articles written by members of the Boonslick Historical Society in the 1930s and 1940s. |
| f. 457 | Boonville and Burckhartt family |
| f. 458-461 | Buttons |
| f. 462-469 | Cemetery inscriptions and tombstones |
| f. 470-474 | Churches |
| f. 475 | Civil War |
| f. 476 | Cooper family |
| f. 477-478 | Duels and Europe |
| f. 479 | Fayette |
| f. 480-481 | Folk medicine and Franklin |
| f. 482 | Genealogy; Hardeman’s Gardens; and Hickman family |
| f. 483 | Horse racing and Howard County courthouse |
| f. 484-496 | Howard County history and reminiscences |
| f. 497-500 | Kingsbury family |
| f. 501 | Kinney family |
| f. 502-504 | “Lilburn Says.” Drafts of Kingsbury’s weekly newspaper column about the history of Howard and Cooper Counties. |
| f. 505-506 | Marriages |
| f. 507-508 | Masons |
| f. 509 | Millinery and Missions |
| f. 510 | Missouri Botanical Gardens and Mules |
| f. 511-512 | Music |
| f. 513 | New York and Plank roads |
| f. 514-515 | Schools |
| f. 516-517 | Steamboats and Taverns |
| f. 518 | Temperance |
| f. 519 | Transportation |
| f. 520-521 | “Way Back Yonder.” Drafts of Kingsbury’s weekly newspaper column about the history of Howard and Cooper Counties. |
| f. 522 | Welch family and Wilson family |
| f. 523-528 | Newspaper clippings collected by Kingsbury for personal and historical interests. They are arranged alphabetically by topic. |
| f. 523 | Epitaphs and Howard County |
| f. 524 | Kingsbury family |
| f. 525 | Lilburn Kingsbury |
| f. 526-527 | Obituaries |
| f. 528 | Schools |
| v. 1-16 | Scrapbooks and volumes of newspaper clippings collected by Kingsbury. Most pertain to Howard County and Missouri history. |
| v. 1 | Newspaper clippings from the 1930s and 1940s regarding the activities of the Cooper and Howard Counties Historical Society, which later became the Boonslick Historical Society. Also includes newsprint copies of “Boonslick Sketches,” a series of historical articles written by members of the society in the 1930s and 1940s. |
| v. 2 | Clippings, correspondence, and ephemera pertaining to the Kingsbury family, the Boonslick Historical Society, antiques, buttons, epitaphs, historic preservation, Missouri River floods, and obituaries. |
| v. 3 | Western Insurance Company register of policies from 1957 to 1962. Includes newspaper clippings regarding New Franklin schools. |
| v. 4 | Newspaper clippings dated 1900s-1920s regarding the Kingsbury family, apple orchards, and New Franklin businesses, fires, musical entertainments, civic improvements, and churches. |
| v. 5 | Newspaper clippings dated 1900s-1920s regarding millinery, railroads, schools, blacks, lawsuits, crimes, and obituaries. |
| v. 6 | Obituaries and newspaper clippings pertaining to Howard County history. |
| v. 7 | Newspaper clippings of 1900s-1920s pertaining to New Franklin businesses, civic improvements, musical entertainments, government, oil wells, theater, and Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Also includes clippings about Kingsbury and churches. |
| v. 8 | Miscellaneous newspaper clippings pertaining to antiques, architecture, Arrow Rock, the Boonslick Historical Society, Cooper County, glassware, Howard County, the Kingsbury family, Methodists, obituaries, transportation, and Thespian Hall in Boonville. |
| v. 9 | Obituaries and funeral and marriage notices from the 1860s-1900s mounted in an 1842 edition of Playfair’s Euclid’s Geometry. |
| v. 10 | Newspaper clippings and ephemera from the 1860s-1880s mounted in an unidentified 1869 business journal. Includes poetry, anecdotes, obituaries, an account of the 1879 execution of John I. West, and literary society programs. Also included is an 1877 diary written by Fannie Huffaker. Huffaker describes her chores, home life, schooling, and social activities. |
| v. 11 | Newspaper clippings and correspondence related to Kingsbury’s newspaper columns entitled “My Say,” “Way Back Yonder,” and “Lilburn Says.” |
| v. 12-16 | Copies of Kingsbury’s weekly newspaper column entitled “Lilburn Says.” Kingsbury’s columns appeared from 1971 to 1982 and pertained primarily to Howard County history. |
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