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Pony Express & Other St. Joseph Historic Clippings Notebook, PeopleEntry/Object ID
2009.3.559 DDescription
Pony Express & Other St. Joseph Historic Clippings Notebook, Re: People
News Clippings most probably from an old scrapbook in the possession of Don Reynolds that he dismantled and saved certain St. Joseph-related articles. Clippings were fragile & crumbling. Photocopies made of the articles and compiled into a notebook. 09.3.559.
1 Young Man Meets Death (R. Culver Smith), June 9, 1923
News story about the accidental death of R. Culver Smith, recently graduated from University of Virginia law school and practicing in Richmond. VA. Smith was born in Buchanan County in 1890 and graduated from St. Joseph High School in 1908, then attended University of Missouri. He enlisted in the Navy in World War I and served as ensign. In St. Joseph he was the youngest Master Masons in the country, a member of Saxton, Mo lodge. He was the son of Dora Smith.
2. Louise Platt Hauck, St. Joseph Author, undated,
News story with photo about Hauck's latest novel, "Rainbow Glory." The romance novel is set in St. Joseph. Mentioned in the novel are the Oak Tea Room, Lovers Lane, Pony Express Stables, Little Theater, Benton Club. (see #12 below)
3. Mrs. James' Record (Mrs. W. K. James), undated.
News story about the president of the board of the Sheltering Arms Home for 27 years. Before the home was established foundlings left on St. Joseph doorsteps died. The Home for Little Wanderers could not admit children younger than 3 years of age. Mary Alicia Owen had encouraged Mrs. James because of this sad state. Mrs. James was then state president of the Missouri Federation of Women's clubs. She organized a local club and, in cooperation with the Humane Society, founded the home. She also helped found the Hillside Rescue Home for unfortunate girls. (See #13 below)
4. Ellinor Runcie Dies, undated.
News story about death of daughter of Rev. James Runcie and Constance Fauntleroy Runcie. She died at her home at 1619 Faraon. Ms. Runcie came to St. Joseph at age one, in 1871 with her parents. Her father was rector of Christ Episcopal Church. She attended Miss Colt's School for Girls in St. Joseph, and later private school in the east, then went to Girton College in London, finishing her education in France & Germany. Ms. Runicie was a teacher, beginning at a girl's school in her mothers home, then at the St. Joseph High School and at Miss West's boarding school located at 27th & Jules streets. In 1916 she taught at the Miss Barstow's School in Kansas City, comin home to St. Joseph on the weekends. She had composed music to Eugene Field's poem, Lovers Lane St. Joe.
5. Obituaries for Julia Milian, Norman O. Vegely (1940) and division of estate of W.A.P. MacDonald (manager of St. Joseph Clearing House Association).
6. Myra (Robertson) Stallard: Mary Todd Helped Push Lincoln to Presidency, Says St. Joseph Woman Who Knew Her as Girl, June 25, 1933.
News Story with photos about Myra Stallard at age 96 who lived at 1202 North 10th Street. She was born outside Lexington, KY in 1837. (She was born on plantation in Kentucky adjacent to the Henry Clay plantation) There she saw the first train in Kentucky. Later, the family moved to Fayette County, KY where her father employed a tutor for his children and other in the area, including the Todd children called Clifton Academy. There her family and the Todd's were well acquainted with Stallard telling stories about the young family. She came to St. Joseph with her family in 1855. via a 3-week boat trip, recalling parakeets in the trees near St. Joseph. They brought their slaves with them, first staying in the Allen House, at Main & Jules. They settled near present day Gower, Mo. Later members of the Union Army took their slave away in the middle of the night. She tells of going over to Kansas in 1855 to see the Indians in their village. She was a classmate in St. Joseph of Vinnie Beam who won an art contest to make a bust of Abraham Lincoln that in 1933 stood in the White House.
7. Eugene Field, Poet Birthday, Sept. 2, 1935
Portions of new stories carry remembrances of Eugene Field & Julia Comstock wedding by Mrs. Elliott Marshall, daughter of Constance Runcie, who as a small child attended the wedding. She describes the nosegay Christmas tree and that her little brother, Roy, sat on Field's lap at the wedding supper. Also mention by name his friends and others who worked with Field. His poem "St. Joe Gazette" is included. Printed upon the death of Eugene Field. Handwritten note at bottom reads: "Married in Christian Church 10 & Edmond. Was late to wedding because stopped to intercede between two boys fighting over a marble game in front of Roberts House 10th & Felix." (Field was married at Christ Episcopal, 7th & Francis)
8. Photograph, could be St. Joseph Country Club.
9. Heat Fatal to Mrs. Stallard (Myra), June 18, 1934.
St. Joseph's Oldest Club Woman Dies Soon After Being Overcome.
Obituary and biography of Mrs. Myra Lewis Stallard, who died at age 97 at her home at 1202 N. 10th St. She was born on plantation in Kentucky adjacent to the Henry Clay plantation.
10. An Invalid's Prayer, Poem by Myra Stallard in Missouri Club Woman, June/July, 1934
Accompanied her death announcement above
11. Death Takes H.A. Owen, Sr, at age 79, July 5, 1936
News story with photo announcing death and giving biography of Herbert A. Owen, brother to the famous Owen Sisters. He died at his home at 1027 Henry Street.
12. Literary Critic Praises Louise Platt Hauck, undated.
Louise Platt Hauck was the subject of a critique in the Blue Pencil literary magazine, by Thomas H. Uzzell of New York, a professor of and textbook author on creative writing. Hauck wrote romance novels under her own name and more realistic novels under a pen name. It is said she had written as many as seven novels in one year. (see #2 above)
13. Mrs. W.K. James Has Appointed Clubhouse Investigating Groups, undated.
News story concerning the collaboration among all the women's clubs in St. Joseph to secure a permanent location in which to meet. (see #3 above).
14. Poet's Birthday, Sept. 2, 1935
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Clubs, Schools, Civil wars, RailroadsSearch Terms
Social Work in Early St. Joseph, Foundlings in St. Joseph, Indians in St. Joseph, 1855, Death of Eugene Field, St. Joseph Authors, Federated Women's Clubs, Hauck, Louise Platt, Home for Little Wanderers, Hillside Rescue Home, Sheltering Arms Home, St. Joseph History, Humane Society, Runcie Club, Girls Schools in St. Joseph, Miss West's School for Girls, St. Joseph High School, Miss Colt's School for Girls, St. Joseph Clearing House, Lincoln, Abraham, Lincoln, Mary Todd, Native American, Slavery in St. Joseph, St. Joseph Country Club, Eugene Field & Julia Comstock Wedding, St. Joseph Gazette, Owen SistersPublication Details
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St. Joseph News-Press & other newspapersPlace Published
City
St. JosephState/Province
MissouriDate Published
1923 - 1940Call No.
PonyExpress STNotes
Date: 1935
Copy No.: 1Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Vinnie BeamPerson or Organization
William MacDonald FairleighPerson or Organization
Mrs. Forrestine C. FarleighPerson or Organization
Field, EugenePerson or Organization
Gray, GeorgePerson or Organization
Hauck, Louise PlattPerson or Organization
Abraham LincolnPerson or Organization
Mary Todd LincolnPerson or Organization
Nannie J. MacDonaldPerson or Organization
MacDonald, W. A. P.Person or Organization
Mrs. Elliott MarshallPerson or Organization
Lillian McDonaldPerson or Organization
Julia MulianPerson or Organization
Mary E. B. NeelyPerson or Organization
Owen, Herbert A.Person or Organization
Constance Fauntleroy RunciePerson or Organization
Ellinor RunciePerson or Organization
J. F. RunciePerson or Organization
James RunciePerson or Organization
Perry O. RunciePerson or Organization
Myra StallardPerson or Organization
M. Jeff ThompsonPerson or Organization
Jean TrowbridgePerson or Organization
Norman O. VegelyPerson or Organization
Mrs. Rufina M. Zimmerman