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Family and personal papers

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Morris-Tull Family Bibles

 Collection
Identifier: MS M7
Scope and Contents Family register pages documenting the births, marriages and deaths in John and Fannie Morris's extended family, removed from three Bibles as well as the few loose documents and photographs that accompanied them. Although there is no statement of ownership in any of the Bibles, entries indicate one belonged to John and Fannie, the second to her parents, Nicholas and Frances (McNeill) Tull, and the third possibly to her step-mother, Mary Elen (Dun) Tull. Later generations continued making...
Dates: 1801-1936

No-Yong Park Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS P4
Scope and Contents

No-Yong Park's personal legal and educational documents, some of his published books, as well as the manuscript "If America Topples," which was unfinished at the time of his death, and sound recordings.

Dates: 1920-1976

Ross C. Allen and Family Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MS A3
Scope and Contents Letters from Corporal Ross C. Allen, Squadron A, United States Army, Herington Army Airfield, Kansas, to his parents Dr. and Mrs. Ross C. Allen in Kirksville, Missouri. The letters were written as the base was being deactivated at the close of World War II. They are all "staying in touch" letters, written on a daily, sometimes twice daily, basis. Ross chats about things he is doing at work and leisure, places he goes on his weekends away from base, popular radio shows, the latest movies, his...
Dates: 1945

Ruth Warner Towne Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS T1
Scope and Contents

Ruth Towne's papers consist of both her home and campus office files and include family records dating from as early as the 1820s, her own personal and professional papers and correspondence, and some of the research for her dissertation on Congressman William Joel Stone, as well as books and articles she wrote over her long teaching career.

Dates: approximately 1800-1999

White Sisters School Records and Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: MS W2
Scope and Contents

Academic records for Mildred Genevieve (White) McKim (Class of 1922) and Marian Kathleen White (Class of 1928) graduates of Northeast Missouri State Teachers College (NMSTC, now Truman State University); collection also includes Mildred's album of school and family photos.

Dates: bulk 1918-1928.