Adair County (Mo.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
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
Quentin C. Smith Albums
Collection
Identifier: MS S7
Scope and Contents
Copies of album scrapbooks created by Quentin Cabell Smith to "publish" his family history. The albums are about the histories of the Smith, Patterson, Shibley, Link and related families of Adair County, Missouri. They contain copies of photos, letters, newspaper clippings and documents Mr. Smith, his mother and other relatives accumulated, shared and organized while doing genealogical research. Some of the captions and pages of text came from information provided by the diary of his...
Dates:
1862-2003
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