Andrew Drips papers, 1819-1858.

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Andrew Drips papers, 1819-1858.

Papers mostly relating to Drip's service as U.S. Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri, 1842-1846, and some for 1851 while Drips was trading for P. Chouteau, Jr., & Co. at their Scotts Bluff post, Fort John. One letter of 1830 is by Lucien Fontenelle, then his partner in the fur trade; a few accounts for 1819-1820 reflect Drip's earlier St. Louis mercantile partnership with Joseph W. Perkins. Some papers conern his children and affairs at Kansas, Missouri. Correspondents include G.P. Beauvais, T. Hartley Crawford, Fulton Cutting, William Drips, C.E. Galpin, Joseph V. Hamilton, Thomas H. Harvey, John Haverty, W.D. Hodgkiss, David D. Mitchell, P. Chouteau, Jr., & Co., and P.D. Papin. (Cont.) With collection are typed transcripts of nine stories in Kansas City newspapers, 1904-1907, concerning Drip's daughter Catherine (1832-1904) and her husband William Mulkey (1824-1907); and a microfilmed scrapbook with genealogical data, family portraits, and newspaper clippings (38 exp.).

Part 1, papers : 1 box.Part 2, scrapbook : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 119:1) and positive.

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Crawford, Thomas Hartley, 1786-1863

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Thomas H. Crawford, a lawyer from Pennsylvania, served as representative to Congress from 1829-1833. He then served as a member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from 1833-1834. In 1836, he was appointed to investigate suspected fraud in the sale of Creek lands in Alabama. From 1838 to 1845 he served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs and subsequently as judge of the criminal court in the District of Columbia, 1845-1861. He died in 1863. From the description of Thomas Har...

Mulkey, Catharine Drips, 1832-1904.

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Galpin, C. E.

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P. Chouteau, Jr., & Co.

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Hodkiss, W. D.

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Cutting, Fulton.

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Perkins, Joseph W.

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Papin, P. D.

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Harvey, Thomas R.

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Haverty, John

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Beauvais, G. P.

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Drips, William.

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Drips, Andrew, 1789?-1860.

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Mulkey, William, 1824-1907.

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Fontenelle, Lucien.

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Mitchell, David D.

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Hamilton, Joseph V.

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