Mudd, Henry Thomas (1818-1902), Papers, 1850-1879, (C1023)

0.25 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

Correspondence and papers of Henry T. Mudd of Kirkwood and St. Louis, Missouri. Mudd was a businessman, politician, member of the Missouri General Assembly, delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention in 1875, and a curator of the University of Missouri.

DONOR INFORMATION

The papers were donated to the University of Missouri by David C. Duniway on 16 February 1955.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Henry Thomas Mudd of Kirkwood and St. Louis, Missouri, was a businessman, politician, delegate to the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1875 and curator of the University of Missouri for one term. He was president of the Ozark Land Company which dealt in the purchase and sale of land. In 1870 he was appointed president of the board of assessors of St. Louis County. In 1872 he was elected a member of the 27th General Assembly as a representative from St. Louis County's Second District during the 1873 and 1874 sessions. He was also elected in 1879 as a representative to the General Assembly. He was influential in securing legislation for the protection of wildlife in Missouri. As a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1875 he was the first to advocate the separation of the city and county of St. Louis. In 1859 he was elected president of the Missouri State Horticultural Society.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The papers include family correspondence discussing illnesses, visits and business travel. Mudd describes the regions through which he travels, particularly noting land features and climate of Alabama and the Plains. Observations of life in Denver, Colorado, of the 1870s and in Texas are made. Descriptions of Plains Indians, territorial mining camps, mining techniques, and prices of ore are also included. Mudd writes to his wife of the debate on representation at the Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1875. He also discusses some of the bills before the General Assemblies in which he served such as the type of punishment for petty crimes and the employment of convict labor in general improvement programs.

FOLDER LIST

f. 1-3

Undated Correspondence, Letter Fragments. Family letters discussing illnesses, financial hardships, holiday plans, and accounts of business travel. Emily F. Judd's family moves to Webster City, Missouri, from Pittsfield, Illinois. Contains letter of advertisement from Mermod, Jaccard, and Co. announcing silverware showing.

f. 4-5

Miscellaneous Family Correspondence--13 April 1850-26 September 1867. Possible cholera epidemic in St. Joseph, Missouri. Judge Thomas, traveling companion of Henry T. Mudd, is to go with him to the U.S. Court in Springfield, Missouri. Travels through region of “milk sickness” in Lawrenceville, Illinois, December 2, 1851. Announcement of Mudd and Hughes, Commission Merchants, St. Louis, Missouri, March 1, 1856. Information on Newtonia, Missouri: its school, college charter and land prices.

f. 6-10

Miscellaneous Family Correspondence--3 October 1867-25 December 1871. Contains family news of visits, travel, illness and business endeavors. Detailed description of the soil, terrain, climate and vegetation indigenous to the Alabama region. Cave Spring at Tuscumbia, Alabama noted for size and interest. Description of living conditions in Texas in the 1870s and of the flooding of the Colorado River. Accounts of Henry T. and Lizzie Mudd's excursion to Kansas and Colorado in June 1871. Observations of life in Denver, Colorado. Description of Indians and the buffalo slaughter on the plains.

f. 11-14

Miscellaneous Family Correspondence--7 January 1872-16 August 1878. Contains references to considerations in both the Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri Constitutional Convention, 1875; debate on representation. Family news of travel plans and illnesses. Grasshopper swarming in Jefferson City, May 5, 1875.

f. 14

Description of life in territorial mining camp, mining techniques and prices of ore. Contains newspaper clipping about the Kirkwood, Missouri “Heege Scandal.” Mention of solar eclipse on July 30, 1878.

f. 15-17

Miscellaneous Family Correspondence--18 August 1878-13 December 1879. Henry T. Mudd elected to the State University and Agriculture committees, January, 1879. Makes arrangements for a bill to establish a state hatchery and to protect fish. House of Representatives considers the establishment of the whipping post as punishment for petty crimes, February 19, 1879. Rabbi Sonneschein lectures on "The Hostile Sisters" in Columbia, Missouri. Henry T. Mudd wants bill for employing convict labor in general improvement of the Agricultural and Mechanical College Farm.

f. 18

Miscellaneous Papers. Contains envelopes, unidentifiable letters and one fragment letter. Includes clippings of poems, and one Kirkwood, Missouri, news item, picture of May Judd's coat and a sample of material.

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.

Subject

Folders

Alabama, 1869

7,8

Alabama, Huntsville, 1869

7

Alabama, Tuscumbia, Cave Spring

8

Barclay, M. A.

8

Brown, Thomas

1,5,6,9

Carroll, Nancy

6

Cholera--Missouri, St. Joseph, 1850

4

Colorado, Colorado Springs, 1870s

14,15

Colorado, Denver, 1870s

10,11,14,15

Colorado, Garden of the Gods

14

Colorado, Georgetown

13,14

Colorado, Golden, 1871

10

Dakota Territory, Central City

13,14

Dakota Territory, Deadwood

14

Eclipses, Solar, 1878

14

Economic conditions

1

Goodin, Jo

5

Grubb, A. O.

14

Grubb, Sophie

2, 6, 11, 13, 14

Hatch, Ellen D. W.

8, 15

Heege Scandal, Kirkwood, Missouri

14

(Hodgen), (Elizabeth) Delphena M(udd)

4, 5, 6, 12

(Hodgen), Alfred

11, 12

(Hodgen), Annett

5, 6, 12, 13

(Hodgen), Harry A.

5

(Hodgen), John J.

12, 13

(Hodgen), John M(udd)

6

(Hodgen), Mary

11

(Hodgen), Mollie

5, 6

(Hodgen), Oty

4, 5, 11, 12

Hodgen, (Jacob)

1, 6, 7, 11, 13

Hodgen, Ellen

7, 9

Hodgen, F(rances) P.

1-3, 5-9, 11-14

Hodgen, Henry

6, 9

Hodgen, Isaac G.

1, 3, 5-9, 11-13, 16, 17

Hodgen, John T(hompson)

1, 4-7, 13, 14, 16

Hodgen, Park

5-8, 12, 15

Hodgen, Robert

5, 13, 14, 16

Hughes, (Graham L.)

4

Hughes, (Graham L.), Mrs.

4

Hyde, Mary

1, 5-11

Hyde, William

10

Illinois, Barry

5, 9-11

Illinois, Chapin

11

Illinois, Jerseyville

13, 17

Illinois, Pittsfield

1-15

Impeachments

17

Judd, Ellen

6, 8

Judd, Emily F.

1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16

Judd, Emma F.

12

Judd, H(omer)

1, 5, 7, 12-15

Judd, May

1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16

Judd, Minnie

1, 12, 13, 15

Judd, Orson

1

Lemen, H. A.

14, 15

Lemen, L. E.

13, 14

Lemen, Lizzie

13

Merchants Exchange, St. Louis

16

Mermod, Jaccard and Company

2

Missouri, Columbia

16

Missouri, Jefferson City

11, 12, 15-17

Missouri, Kirkwood

2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13-16

Missouri, Newtonia, 1858

5

Missouri, St. Louis

14, 15

Missouri, Webster City

1, 13-15

Missouri. Constitutional Convention, 1875

11, 12, 13

Missouri. General Assembly, 27th, House

11

Missouri. General Assembly, 30th, House

15-17

Mudd and Hughes, Commission Merchants

4

(Mudd), Della, also (Dellie)

3-7, 12, 14, 15

(Mudd), Lettie

15

Mudd, Alexis

4, 5

Mudd, Celestia R.

1, 4-9, 11, 12, 15

Mudd, Ella

1, 2, 6-13, 15

Mudd, F. E. S.

5-6

Mudd, Harvey G(ilmer)

1-3, 5-7, 10, 11, 13-15

Mudd, Henry H(odgen)

2, 11-16

Mudd, Henry S.

8

Mudd, Henry Thomas

1-17

Mudd, Lizzie

1-3, 6-12

Mudd, Sarah Elizabeth

1, 2, 4-17

Mudd, Seeley

1-2

Mudd, Seeley W(intersmith)

3, 7, 10, 13-16

Ost, Louis W.

14

Quinby, Fanny

12

Scanland, Jane

5

Scanland, R.

4, 5, 6

Seeley, Doctor

2, 5, 6, 7, 12

Seeley, James

5, 6, 8, 9

Seeley, Mary W.

1, 2, 5-17

Seeley, Th. W.

3

Seeley, William

1, 8, 14

Sonneschein, Rabbi

16

Texas, Webberville

9

Thomas, (William Smith)

4

Wahl, John

16