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Mudd, Henry Thomas (1818-1902), Papers, 1850-1879
.25 linear feet
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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.
C1023 Mudd, Henry Thomas (1818-1902), Papers, 1850-1879
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.
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INDEX TERMS
Subject
Alabama, 1869
Alabama, Huntsville, 1869
Alabama, Tuscumbia, Cave Spring
Barclay, M. A.
Brown, Thomas
Carroll, Nancy
Cholera--Missouri, St. Joseph, 1850
Colorado, Colorado Springs, 1870s
Colorado, Denver, 1870s
Colorado, Garden of the Gods
Colorado, Georgetown
Colorado, Golden, 1871
Dakota Territory, Central City
Dakota Territory, Deadwood
Eclipses, Solar, 1878
Economic conditions
Goodin, Jo
Grubb, A. O.
Grubb, Sophie
Hatch, Ellen D. W.
Heege Scandal, Kirkwood, Missouri
(Hodgen), (Elizabeth) Delphena M(udd)
(Hodgen), Alfred
(Hodgen), Annett
(Hodgen), Harry A.
(Hodgen), John J.
(Hodgen), John M(udd)
(Hodgen), Mary
(Hodgen), Mollie
(Hodgen), Oty
Hodgen, (Jacob)
Hodgen, Ellen
Hodgen, F(rances) P.
Hodgen, Henry
Hodgen, Isaac G.
Hodgen, John T(hompson)
Folders
7,8
7
8
8
1,5,6,9
6
4
14,15
10,11,14,15
14
13,14
10
13,14
14
14
1
5
14
2, 6, 11, 13, 14
8, 15
14
4, 5, 6, 12
11, 12
5, 6, 12, 13
5
12, 13
6
11
5, 6
4, 5, 11, 12
1, 6, 7, 11, 13
7, 9
1-3, 5-9, 11-14
6, 9
1, 3, 5-9, 11-13, 16, 17
1, 4-7, 13, 14, 16
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Subject
Hodgen, Park
Hodgen, Robert
Hughes, (Graham L.)
Hughes, (Graham L.), Mrs.
Hyde, Mary
Hyde, William
Illinois, Barry
Illinois, Chapin
Illinois, Jerseyville
Illinois, Pittsfield
Impeachments
Judd, Ellen
Judd, Emily F.
Judd, Emma F.
Judd, H(omer)
Judd, May
Judd, Minnie
Judd, Orson
Lemen, H. A.
Lemen, L. E.
Lemen, Lizzie
Merchants Exchange, St. Louis
Mermod, Jaccard and Company
Missouri, Columbia
Missouri, Jefferson City
Missouri, Kirkwood
Missouri, Newtonia, 1858
Missouri, St. Louis
Missouri, Webster City
Missouri. Constitutional Convention, 1875
Missouri. General Assembly, 27th, House
Missouri. General Assembly, 30th, House
Mudd and Hughes, Commission Merchants
(Mudd), Della, also (Dellie)
(Mudd), Lettie
Mudd, Alexis
Mudd, Celestia R.
Mudd, Ella
Folders
5-8, 12, 15
5, 13, 14, 16
4
4
1, 5-11
10
5, 9-11
11
13, 17
1-15
17
6, 8
1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16
12
1, 5, 7, 12-15
1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12-16
1, 12, 13, 15
1
14, 15
13, 14
13
16
2
16
11, 12, 15-17
2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13-16
5
14, 15
1, 13-15
11, 12, 13
11
15-17
4
3-7, 12, 14, 15
15
4, 5
1, 4-9, 11, 12, 15
1, 2, 6-13, 15
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Subject
Mudd, F. E. S.
Mudd, Harvey G(ilmer)
Mudd, Henry H(odgen)
Mudd, Henry S.
Mudd, Henry Thomas
Mudd, Lizzie
Mudd, Sarah Elizabeth
Mudd, Seeley
Mudd, Seeley W(intersmith)
Ost, Louis W.
Quinby, Fanny
Scanland, Jane
Scanland, R.
Seeley, Doctor
Seeley, James
Seeley, Mary W.
Seeley, Th. W.
Seeley, William
Sonneschein, Rabbi
Texas, Webberville
Thomas, (William Smith)
Wahl, John
Folders
5-6
1-3, 5-7, 10, 11, 13-15
2, 11-16
8
1-17
1-3, 6-12
1, 2, 4-17
1-2
3, 7, 10, 13-16
14
12
5
4, 5, 6
2, 5, 6, 7, 12
5, 6, 8, 9
1, 2, 5-17
3
1, 8, 14
16
9
4
16
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