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Adair County Historical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS A5
Scope and Contents

Focused on Adair County, Missouri, including Kirksville and surrounding areas, this collection encompasses a wide variety of materials from businesses, churches, and organizations. It includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, maps, and more.

Dates: 1832-1998

Adair County Public School District Documents

 Collection
Identifier: MS A1
Scope and Contents

Ledgers of sub-districts of the Adair County School District for 1866-1881, as well as a compilation of district attendance statistics for 1880-1976 (incomplete).

Dates: 1866-1976

Captain Harris House Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS H7
Scope and Contents Photographs, architectural plans and drawings, wallpaper samples, correspondence, newspaper clippings, invoices, checks, and paint and varnish samples detailing the restoration of the Captain Harris House, also known as the Parrish House and Parrish Place, a historical residential building in Kirksville, Missouri. The contents were gathered from the Italianate house at 101 Burton Street in Kirksville, Missouri, during renovations and from records kept by Mary Childers Slone, the owner of the...
Dates: 1869-2008

Daughters of the American Revolution Scrapbooks and Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: MS D6
Scope and Contents

World War I era scrapbooks and photograph album compiled by members of the Ann Haynes Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Dates: 1850-1952

E. M. Violette Museum Documents of Unknown Origin

 Collection
Identifier: MUSDP U2
Scope and Contents

Letters, military records, receipts, slave and land sales, political memorabilia and other documents received as individual pieces or in small groups into the E. M. Violette Museum collection.

Dates: 1807-1965

E. M. Violette Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS V1
Scope and Contents

Eugene M. Violette's papers, approximately 8 linear feet plus 18 volumes, include draft versions of his books and articles; professional papers, primarily from his years in Kirksville, Missouri, 1900-1923; and personal and family papers including diaries, scrapbooks and photos from childhood to shortly before his death.

Dates: 1875-1940

Hubert Gordon Collett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C8
Scope and Contents Correspondence, photographs, real estate records, financial records, sheet music, and event programs relating to Hubert Gordon Collett and the Collett Family of Adair County, Missouri.Record Group 1 contains approximately 760 documents pertaining to the family history of the Collett family, and the personal life of Gordon Collett, in the Kirksville, Missouri area. The collection ranges in date from 1874-1973, and consists of a wide variety of document types, including photographs...
Dates: 1773-2012

Kirksville & Surrounding Communities Funeral Notices & Obituaries Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: MS K10
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook with funeral notices for Kirksville and surrounding communities from about 1876-1899 and newspaper clippings of obituaries (along with some marriage and birthday notices) from about 1917-1919. Also includes handwritten notes of local deaths. In a folder in the back of the scrapbook, there are a few memorial cards from local funeral homes in from 1943-1945.In some cases, there are handwritten notes about age and cemetery plots.

Dates: 1866-1919, 1943-1945

Linder Family Manuscript Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS L3
Scope and Contents Diaries and ledgers dating from 1902 through 1992, which are significant to the history of rural Adair County, Missouri, and the Linder family. The collection also contains letters dating from 1968 through 1974 written by Christa Linder to family in Germany, and letters dating from 1964 through 1981 from Merle and Oran H. Linder to Harold Linder. Oran (Hubert) Linder wrote all but one diary that is included, with the other written by O. R. (Bob) Linder, as well as the farm ledgers....
Dates: 1902-1992

Paul Owen Selby Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS S1
Abstract

Personal papers, research notes and writings of Paul Owen Selby, consisting of the files and records he gave during his lifetime as well as those cleared from his campus office after his death. Many are concerned with Kirksville and Adair County history, genealogies of Adair County families, and Mark Twain. Also includes his personal scrapbooks from 1890-1979.

Dates: 1890-approximately 1995

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Adair County Historical Society (Mo.) 5
Daughters of the American Revolution, Ann Haynes Chapter (Kirksville, Mo.) 3
Violette, E. M. (Eugene Morrow), 1873-1940 2
Adair County Public School District (Mo.) 1
Cain family 1