Telegram from General Samuel R. Curtis to Abraham Lincoln informing him that his Provost Marshall General, Col. Frank A. Dick, has temporarily withdrawn an order banishing prominent St. Louis minister Samuel B. McPheeters for suspected Southern…
Letter from General Samuel R. Curtis to Abraham Lincoln expressing his objection to the President's suspension of an order to banish Reverend Samuel B. McPheeters of St. Louis for Southern sympathies and explaining his view on the need for stringent…
This house on 42nd Street was the home of E. T. Meredith and his wife Edna. Mr. Meredith was the president and manager of the Successful Farming Publishing Company. Unsuccessful in his 1914 bid for U.S. Senate and his 1916 bid for Governor of Iowa,…
This house on 42nd Street was built in 1910 and is still standing. Mr. Schmidt was the president of the Des Moines City Railway Company and the Iowa Terminal Company.
