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Blount Family, Papers, 1861-1947 (C0047)
4 linear feet, 15 oversize volumesINTRODUCTION
Business papers recording farming, mining, and mercantile activities in southeast Missouri, particularly Potosi and Washington County. The collection contains family correspondence, legal and financial records, as well as medical notebooks from Barnes Hospital in St. Louis.
DONOR INFORMATION
The Blount Family Papers were deposited at the University of Missouri by Don Simpson on 9 February 1948 (Accession No. 2915).
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
R.A. and Thomp F. Blount were involved in lead mining at Blount Mines in Miami, Oklahoma and Washington Land and Mining Company in Palmer, Missouri. The family also had interests in farming and a mercantile store in Potosi, Missouri.
Harry J. Blount studied medicine at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri from 1907 to 1908.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The Blount Family Papers consists of correspondence, legal, and financial records detailing their mining and mercantile businesses in southeast Missouri and northwest Oklahoma. The collection also contains medical student notebooks from the early 1900s and is divided into seven series: Printed Materials, Correspondence, Financial Papers, Legal Papers, Miscellaneous Papers, Record Books, and Medical Books.
- Printed Materials
- Correspondence
- Financial Papers
- Legal Papers
- Miscellaneous Papers
- Record Books
- Medical Books
The Printed Materials series consists of church quarterlies, medical student textbook lists, issues of Medical Record, and a machinery catalog.
The Correspondence series is divided between Mercantile correspondence and Mining and Mercantile correspondence. The Mercantile correspondence consists of letters between Thomp F. Blount and J.A. Ainsworth with livestock commission agents, wholesale dealers in St. Louis, Missouri, Illinois, and farmers in southeast Missouri concerning cattle markets, trade, and prices. Other correspondence deals with grain and seed orders, prices, and shipments, Civil War pension claims of Washington County, Missouri, residents, and business correspondence with merchants, insurance agents, car deals, and real estate dealers. The series also includes a small amount of family and social correspondence.
The Mining and Mercantile correspondence of Thomp F. Blount concerns zinc, barite, and lead mining at the Palmer Lead Company and Washington Land and Mining Company, Potosi, Missouri; Potosi Zinc Company, Golden Rod Mining Company, and T.F. Blount Mining Company, Miami, Oklahoma. Correspondence with W.C. Hogoboom, superintendent of Blount mines in Oklahoma, contains weekly reports including expenses, drill records, shipping, and sampling reports and prices. Other correspondence is written between Blount and mining and chemical companies, smelting and refining companies, and government agencies concerning mining in Colorado, Oklahoma, and southeast Missouri. There is also some correspondence concerning Blount and Bust General Merchandise Store in Potosi.
The Financial Papers series is divided between the mercantile and mining operations. The mercantile records include accounts and bills, checks, invoices, receipts, bills from wholesalers, correspondence, freight bills, and livestock market reports. The mining records include checks, receipts, orders, freight bills and shipping receipts for supplies, equipment, and crude barite ore, payrolls, royalty statements, and general expenditure statements including drilling, assaying, labor, supplies and prospecting of the family owned lead companies in Missouri and Oklahoma.
The Legal Papers series includes abstracts of title and land surveys for Washington County, Missouri, deeds, contracts, pension claim reports, mining leases in Missouri and Oklahoma, and a legal brief concerning R.A. Blount and a labor union dispute.
The Miscellaneous Papers series contains maps of Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri mining districts, as well as papers concerning workman’s compensation insurance, a photograph, government publications on mines and mining, and miscellaneous family mementos.
The Record Books series consists of payroll ledgers, mercantile account books, farm journal day-by-day records, mining accounts, inventories, and a bookkeeping textbook. The series also contains ore weight measurements, lead mining notebooks, mining bank deposits and drill hole records, rent receipts, real estate account books, and lead weight tickets.
The Medical Books series contains Harry J. Blount’s student notebooks from Barnes Hospital, St. Louis from 1907 to 1908, a medical advertising catalog for anitphlogistive, and a medical account book from 1920 to 1921.
FOLDER LIST
Printed Materials Series
| f. 1 | The Advanced Scholar’s Quarterly, 1901 |
| f. 2 | Gathered Sheaves of God’s Eternal Harvesters, 1925 |
| f. 3-8 | Medical Record, 1908-1909 |
| f. 9 | Textbook lists; H.N. Straight Manufacturing Company Catalog, 1902-1903 |
Correspondence Series
| f. 10-18 | Mercantile Correspondence, 1897-1947, n.d. |
| f. 10 | Undated |
| f. 11 | 1897 March-October |
| f. 12 | 1898 January-June |
| f. 13 | 1898 July-1899 August |
| f. 14 | 1900 January-May |
| f. 15 | 1914-1919 |
| f. 16 | 1923-1927 August 9 |
| f. 17 | 1927 August 10-29 |
| f. 18 | 1938-1947 |
| f. 19-49 | Mining and Mercantile Correspondence, 1889-1946, n.d. |
| f. 19-20 | Undated |
| f. 21 | 1889-1897 |
| f. 22 | 1898 |
| f. 23 | 1899 |
| f. 24 | 1901-1908 |
| f. 25 | 1915 |
| f. 26-30 | 1916 |
| f. 31-35 | 1917 |
| f. 36-39 | 1918 |
| f. 40-42 | 1919 |
| f. 43-44 | 1924-1927 |
| f. 45 | 1931 March-1939 January 4 |
| f. 46-47 | 1939 January 5-July |
| f. 48-49 | 1939 August-1946 |
Financial Papers Series
| f. 50-156 | Mercantile Financial Papers, 1885-1947, n.d. |
| f. 50-55 | Undated |
| f. 56 | 1870-1897 |
| f. 57 | 1898-1899 |
| f. 58 | 1900-1915 |
| f. 59 | 1916-1922 |
| f. 60 | 1923-1924 September |
| f. 61-66 | 1924 October-December |
| f. 67-104 | 1925 |
| f. 105 | 1926 |
| f. 106-107 | 1927 January 29-December 31 |
| f. 108 | 1927 December 31-1928 |
| f. 109 | 1929 |
| f. 110 | 1930 |
| f. 111 | 1931 |
| f. 112 | 1932 |
| f. 113 | 1933 |
| f. 114 | 1934-1937 |
| f. 115 | 1938 |
| f. 116 | 1939 January-November 28 |
| f. 117 | 1939 November 30-1940 February 16 |
| f. 118-133 | 1940 February 23-September 30 |
| f. 134 | 1940 October 7-1941 September 30 |
| f. 135-151 | 1942 January-December 18 |
| f. 152 | 1942 December 18-1943 January 9 |
| f. 153-155 | 1943 January 11-October 1 |
| f. 156 | 1943 October 5-1947 |
| f. 157-220 | Mining Financial Papers, 1894-1940, n.d. |
| f. 157 | Undated |
| f. 158 | 1894-1900 |
| f. 159-170 | 1916 |
| f. 171-181 | 1917 |
| f. 182 | 1918-1921 |
| f. 183 | 1923-1924 |
| f. 184-186 | 1925-1929 |
| f. 187 | 1930-1933 |
| f. 188-189 | 1937-1938 |
| f. 190-191 | 1939 |
| f. 192 | 1940 |
| f. 193 | 1941-1942 |
| f. 194 | 1943 |
| f. 195 | 1944 |
| f. 196 | 1945-1947 |
| f. 197-220 | Freight Bills, 1916-1940 |
| f. 197-210 | 1916-1924 |
| f. 211-214 | 1925 |
| f. 215-217 | 1938 |
| f. 218-219 | 1939 |
| f. 220 | 1940 |
Legal Papers Series
| f. 221-246 | Legal Papers, 1866-1939, n.d. |
| f. 221-223 | Undated |
| f. 224-225 | 1866-1898 |
| f. 226 | 1899 |
| f. 227 | 1900-1909 |
| f. 228 | 1915-1916 |
| f. 229 | 1917 |
| f. 230-231 | 1918 |
| f. 232 | 1922 |
| f. 233-234 | 1923 |
| f. 235 | 1933-1939 |
Miscellaneous Papers Series
| f. 236-239 | Survey Maps, n.d. |
| f. 240-242 | Clippings and Printed Material, n.d. |
| f. 243 | Drill Records, n.d. |
| f. 244 | Printed Material, 1898-1911 |
| f. 245 | Drill Records, 1915-1917 |
| f. 246 | Clippings, 1917-1939 |
Record Books Series
| v. 1 | Mercantile account book, n.d. |
| v. 2 | Lead mining notebook, n.d. |
| v. 3 | Farm account book, 1861-1867 |
| v. 4 | Farm journal and account book, 1866-1885 |
| v. 5 | Mercantile account book, 1870-1890 |
| v. 6 | Farm and mercantile account book, 1875-1885 |
| v. 7 | Mercantile account book, 1900 |
| v. 8 | Mercantile check receipts, 1900 |
| v. 9 | Mercantile account book, 1903 |
| v. 10 | Mercantile account book, 1907 |
| v. 11 | Mercantile bank deposits, 1908 |
| v. 12 | Mining account book and payroll, 1911-1922 |
| v. 13 | Mercantile account book, 1913-1915 |
| v. 14 | General account book, 1915-1917 |
| v. 15 | Mining drill hole record, 1916 |
| v. 16 | Mining bank deposits, 1916-1918 |
| v. 17 | Mining bank deposits, 1917-1918 |
| v. 18-26 | Mining check stubs, 1916-1918 |
| v. 27 | General account book, 1917-1919 |
| v. 28 | Mercantile inventory, 1917-1919 |
| v. 29 | Mercantile account book, 1919-1922 |
| v. 30 | Mining and merchandising accounts, 1919-1923 |
| v. 31 | Merchandise sales book, 1919-1935 |
| v. 32 | Ledger totals mercantile account book, 1920-1921 |
| v. 33 | Mercantile inventory book, 1920-1923 |
| v. 34 | Mercantile account book, 1920-1924 |
| v. 35 | Mercantile and mining account books, 1922-1924 |
| v. 36 | Real estate account book, 1924-1926 |
| v. 37 | Mercantile account book, 1925-1934 |
| v. 38 | Unpaid notes and account book, 1927 |
| v. 39 | General mercantile account book, 1928 |
| v. 40 | Mining payroll, 1928-1929 |
| v. 41 | Mining and mercantile accounts, 1928-1933 |
| v. 42 | Payroll, 1929 |
| v. 43-44 | Mercantile account books, 1930-1932 |
| v. 45 | Mining account book, 1934-1941 |
| v. 46 | Lead weight tickets, 1937 |
| v. 47-48 | Ore weight measurements, 1939 |
| v. 49 | Mercantile bank deposits, 1939-1940 |
| v. 50 | Mining payroll account book, 1942 |
| v. 51 | Mercantile account book, 1943 |
| v. 52 | Mercantile bank deposits, 1943-1945 |
| v. 53 | Rent receipts, 1943-1945 August 25 |
| v. 54-56 | Check stubs, 1944-1945 |
| v. 57 | Rent receipts, 1945-1946 |
| v. 58-62 | Check stubs, 1945 August 27-1946 |
| v. 63 | Ore weight measurements, 1946 |
| v. 64 | Payroll ledger, n.d. |
| v. 65 | Bryant, Stratton High School bookkeeping textbook |
Medical Books Series
| v. 66-95 | Student notebooks from Barnes Hospital, 1907-1908, n.d. |
| v. 96 | Medical advertising catalog for antiphlogistive, 1909 |
| v. 97 | Medical account book, 1920-1921 |
INDEX TERMS
These index terms are the subjects, people, places, etc. under which this collection is listed in all available indexes at The State Historical Society of Missouri-Columbia. If you are interested in a specific index term, please contact the reference staff.
| Ainsworth, J. A. | f. 1-49 |
| Archive of Soil Science | |
| Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Blount family | |
| Blount Mercantile and Mining | |
| Blount, Harry A. | |
| Business | |
| Cantwell, H. J. (1863-1917) | |
| Cattle Prices, 1890 | f. 10-18 |
| Chemical industries | |
| Clark, Giles T. | v. 7 |
| Donnell, Forrest C. (1884-1980) | f. 19-49 |
| J. E. Carter Mining Company | f. 1 |
| Lead Mines and Mining | f. 1 |
| Lithopone mines and mining | f. 3 |
| Livestock | f. 10-18 |
| Livestock prices, 1890s | f. 10-18 |
| Medicine | |
| Merchants | f. 50-156, 1-18, 221-248 |
| Mines & mineral resources--Maps | f. 157-220 |
| Mines & mineral resources--Missouri | f. 19-49 |
| Missouri, Palmer | f. 19-49 |
| Missouri, Potosi | f. 1 |
| Missouri, Washington County | |
| Oklahoma, Miami | f. 1 |
| Palmer, Don McNeill (1845- ) | |
| Physicians | |
| Railroads, Rates | f. 157-220 |
| Renfrow, William Cary (1845-1922) | f. 19-49 |
| Robb, Edward (1857-1934) | f. 10-18 |
| Tiff (Barite) Mining | f. 1 |
| Washington Land and Mining Co. | |
| Zinc |
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