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Plistoriosil 3R,e-\rie^w- The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI RICHARD S. BROWNLEE EDITOR MARY K. DAINS ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAMES W. GOODRICH ASSOCIATE EDITOR Copyright © 1977 by the State Historical Society of Missouri Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. The MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW is owned by the State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 201 South Eight Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communications, business and editorial VOLUME LXXI correspondence and change of address to the State Historical Society of Missouri, Corner of Hitt and Lowry Streets, Columbia, MO. 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. NUMBER 2 The REVIEW is sent free to all members of The State Historical Society of Missouri. Membership dues in the Society are $2.00 a year or $40 for an individual life membership. The Society assumes no responsibility for state ments made by contributors to the magazine. JANUARY 1977 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of the State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R. S. of Mo., 1969, Chapter 183, as revised 1973. OFFICERS 1974-1977 ELMER ELLIS, Columbia, President RUSSELL V. DYE, Liberty, First Vice President JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry, Second Vice President MRS. AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, Third Vice President REV. JOHN F. BANNON, S.J., St. Louis, Fourth Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Fifth Vice President MRS. VIRGINIA YOUNG, Columbia, Sixth Vice President ALBERT M. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer RICHARD S. BROWNLEE, Columbia, Director, Secretary and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville Term Expires At Annual Meeting, 1977 LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia R.I. COLBORN, Paris ROBERTA. BOWLING, Montgomery City W.W. DALTON, St. Louis FRANK P. BRIGGS, Macon RICHARD B. FOWLER, Kansas City HENRY A. BUNDSCHU, Independence VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana Term Expires At Annual Meeting, 1978 ROBERT S. DALE, Carthage RONALD L. SOMERVILLE, Chillicothe GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis JACK STAPLETON, SR., Stanberry W. WALLACE SMITH, Independence JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico Term Expires At Annual Meeting, 1979 JAMES W. BROWN, Harrisonville ALFRED O. FUERBRINGER, St. Louis RICHARD J. CHAMIER, Moberly JOHN K. HULSTON, Springfield WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton JAMES OLSON, Kansas City ELMER ELLIS, Columbia ARVARH STRICKLAND, Columbia EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE The twenty-seven Trustees, the President and the Secretary of the Society, the Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, President of the University of Missouri and Chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia constitute the Executive Com mittee. FINANCE COMMITTEE Five members of the Executive Committee appointed by the President, who by virtue of his office constitutes the sixth member, compose the Finance Committee. WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington, Chairman LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville «1IM1[M1SS^1SSI81IM1S1IM1ISS^SIM1IS1IM1^SSSIS1S1E1S1S1S!S1S1E NEW SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS The State Historical Society of Missouri is always interested in obtaining new members. For more than seventy years, thousands of Missourians who have be longed to the Society have been responsible primarily for building its great research collections and libraries. They have given it the support which makes it the largest organization of its type in the United States. The quest for interested new members goes on continually, and your help is solicited in obtaining them. In every family, and in every community, there are individuals who are sincerely interested in the collection, preservation and dissemination of the his tory of Missouri. Why not nominate these people for membership? Annual dues are only $2.00, Life Memberships $40.00. Richard S. Brownlee Director and Secretary State Historical Society of Missouri Hitt and Lowry Streets Columbia, Missouri 65201 i§IMS[H@[SI§[S][H][S[lffl ® ® m ISI AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE | m m The editorial staff of the MISSOURI HISTORICAL |j m REVIEW asks that members of the State Historical So- g) m ciety of Missouri, who are moving or have moved to a jg M new location, please inform the Society of changes of address, as soon as possible. To remail a returned issue of the REVIEW under new postal rates is very expensive. In addition to elim inating this costly procedure, the immediate notifica tion of a change of address will enable the member to receive the REVIEW at an earlier date. Changes of address should be sent to: State Historical Society of Missouri Corner of Hitt arid Lowry Streets |f Columbia, Missouri 65201 El![H][![!!H|[§!§IMa[§S^ HSIS(§!§[K](SS^ | THE FLOYD C. SHOEMAKER | I HISTORY AWARD 1 H M g The State Historical Society of Missouri takes g d pleasure in announcing the fourth round of competition g for the Floyd C. Shoemaker History Award. | g This $100.00 annual award was created by the late g Mr. Shoemaker, the long-time secretary of the Society, g for the advancement of Missouri history in the univer- g sities, colleges and high schools throughout the state. | g The annual award alternates every other year be- g tween junior class students in Missouri colleges and g universities and senior high school students in Missouri. I The 1977 award of $100.00 will be presented for M the best article written by a senior high school student. £§ The award will be presented at the 1977 annual meet- IE M ing of the State Historical Society. M Articles nominated for the award must relate to the g II history of Missouri, either to events or personalities. M The maximum length of an article is 5,000 words and a S bibliography must be included. | M 1 S Each high school must select a panel of judges to | 11 nominate its best article by a senior high student. Only | M one article may be submitted from each high school. | y i jij Each article will be judged against other nomina- | H tions by the Department of History of the University of | I Missouri-Columbia. Articles submitted for this award | H will become the property of the State Historical Society | U of Missouri. The prize-winning article will be con- | i sidered for publication in the MISSOURI HIS- | j| TORICAL REVIEW. | m £ 1 The final date for submission of articles is July 1, | | 1977. The articles must be sent to the State Historical g | Society of Missouri, Room 2, Elmer Ellis Library, Hitt | § and Lowry Streets, Columbia, Missouri 65201. | m n CONTENTS KENRICK's FIRST SEMINARY. ByJohnE. Rybolt, CM 139 THE BATTLE OF WILSON'S CREEK AND ITS EFFECT UPON MISSOURI. By L. E. Schroeder 156 ORGANIZING SMALL BUSINESS DURING WORLD WAR II: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE KANSAS CITY REGION. By Donald J. Mrozek 174 4-H CLUB WORK IN MISSOURI. By Clarence R. Keathley and Donna M. Ham 193 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Views from the Past: Missouri Landmarks 204 Society Holds Annual Meeting 206 News in Brief 211 Local Historical Societies 214 Gifts 222 Missouri History in Newspapers 226 Missouri History in Magazines 230 Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History 233 In Memoriam 234 Editorial Policy 235 BOOK REVIEW 236 BOOK NOTES 238 ST. PETER'S (BRUSH CREEK) CATHOLIC CHURCH Inside Back Cover Peter Richard Kenrick Kenrick's First Seminary BY JOHN E. RYBOLT, CM.' The life of Peter Richard Kenrick as Archbishop of St. Louis was marked at its beginning and end by concern for two seminaries. The first had a precarious brief existence; the second, which proudly bears the archbishop's name, has flourished for 83 years in St. Louis. In this concern, Kenrick manifested the church's enduring effort to provide priestly candidates with a solid education. A study of the origins of Kenrick's first two seminaries is intended to pay tribute to that great pioneer bishop.l Previous to the establishment of a diocesan structure for the Lou isiana Purchase, and then for St. Louis itself (in 1826), the spiritual "John E. Rybolt, CM., is academic dean and professor of Old Testament at Ken rick Seminary, St. Louis. He holds graduate degrees in Latin, Near Eastern Languages, Theology and Scripture and is currently completing his doctoral dissertation in Biblical Studies at Saint Louis University. 1 The standard major history of the archdiocese of St. Louis is John Rothensteiner, History of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, 2 vols. (St. Louis, 1928). A smaller, more recent work is William Barnaby Faherty, S.J., Dream by the River: Two Centuries of Saint Louis Catholicism (St. Louis, 1973). A recent work on the seminaries is John David Burke, "The Seminary of Saint Louis, 1818-1918: Foundation for ordination" (unpub lished Master's thesis, St. Louis University, 1966). 139 140 Missouri Historical Review needs of the area's Roman Catholic citizens were cared for by a hand ful of missionaries, from Canada and Mexico. Beginning in 1818, priests for the diocese of Louisiana and the Floridas studied at St. Mary's of the Barrens, Perryville, Missouri.2 From its foundation in that year until 1842, its faculty of Vincentian Fathers taught Vincen- tian students, candidates for the diocesan clergy and secular college students. The first Bishop of St. Louis, Joseph Rosati, CM., had been superior of his fellow Vincentians at the Barrens, and knew firsthand the concerns of maintaining three sorts of institutions under the same roof. This concern later Influenced his decision to transfer the semi nary from the Barrens to St. Louis.3 In 1823, Rosati was elected coadjutor-bishop of the sprawling dio cese, and in 1826 he succeeded Bishop William Valentine DuBourg.