Family Collections

Missouri Valley Trust Co.
Title
Missouri Valley Trust Co.
Description
This bank building was built by the Bank of the Stae of Missouri which established itself on this corner in July, 1859. The stockholders who organized the bank were: Joseph Robidoux, R. W. Donnell, John Patee, Judge Solomon, Col. D. M. McDonald, C. B. France, Major J. M. Bassett, John C. Thornton, Armstrong Beattie, John Corby, P. L. McLaughlin, Maj. Frederick W. Smith, Israel Landis, Simeon Kemper, Jules C. Robidoux, M. Jeff Thompson, Henry Nunning, Dr. Silas McDonald, A. P. Goff, John E. Barrow, Joseph C. Hull and others. The Supreme Court of Missouri held its sessions on the second floor in the late 1860s.
Object Type
Postcard
Bank of the State of Missouri
Title
Bank of the State of Missouri
Description
Sign above building reads Missouri Valley Trust Co. The bank building was built in July 1859. "Steamboat captains, slave owners, overland freighters, confederate and union soldiers have done business here. Pony Express riders, French fur traders and gold miners of Pikes Peak and Virginia City, Montana, have warmed themselves by the old fireplace before starting across the plains."
Object Type
Postcard
Soldiers, Orphans, and Widows Home and Hospital
Title
Soldiers, Orphans, and Widows Home and Hospital
Description
At the bottom left in a box, "Soldiers Orphans and Widows/Home--and Hospital,/St. Joseph Missouri." On the righthand side at the bottom in the same type of box, "J. A. Storm and W. Angelo Powell/Architects and Superintendents/St. Joseph Missouri." Printed on the reverse is "From the/New York Gallery,/North Side Market Square,/St. Joseph, MO./L. A. Furlong & Co." A handwritten line is drawn through the Furlong name and handwritten below is "Crowther Bros." According to "The History of Buchanan County, Missouri," (1881) J. A. Storm, architect, was a long-time partner in "contracting and building with John C. Evans," but "in 1865, he sold out to DeClue & Shivel, and for one season, in company with W. Angelo Powell, conducted a real estate and architect's office" (p. 908).
Date
1866~
Object Type
Photograph