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Gottfried Duden: a Nineteenth-Century Missouri Promoter MISSOURI Historical Review The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI COVER DESCRIPTION: A former First Lady of Missouri, Mrs. Lloyd C. Stark of St. Louis, recently gave the Society some preliminary mural studies by artist Frank Nuderscher. The studies were executed by the artist for a mural in the Missouri Building at the 1938 San Fran­ cisco World's Fair. A detail from one of the 9i/2"x22i/2" studies featuring the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Senator Thomas Hart Benton and a St. Louis Fur Trade street scene has been reproduced on the front cover. Nuderscher (1880-1959) studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was noted for his murals, his paintings of St. Louis industries and his Missouri Ozarks scenes. The Society is pleased to have the Nuderscher studies to add to its fine arts collection. 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 © 1981 by the State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201 The MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW (ISSN 0026-6582) is owned by the State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 201 South Eighth, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communications, business and editorial correspondence and change of address to the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO. 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. Current REVIEWS are sent to all members of The State VOLUME LXXV Historical Society of Missouri during their term of member­ ship. Membership dues in the Society are $2.00 a year or $40 NUMBER 2 for an individual life membership. The Society assumes no responsibility for statements made by contributors to the magazine. JANUARY 1981 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 1980-1983 LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia, President MRS. AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, First Vice President REVEREND JOHN F. BANNON, St. Louis, Second Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Third Vice President MRS. VIRGINIA YOUNG, Columbia, Fourth Vice President DR. NOBLE E. CUNNINGHAM, Columbia, Fifth Vice President R. KENNETH ELLIOTT, Kansas City, 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 RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton GEORGE A. ROZIER, Jefferson City ELMER ELLIS, Columbia LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1981 FRANCIS M. BARNES III, St. Louis W. WALLACE SMITH, Independence ROBERT S. DALE, Carthage RONALD L. SOMERVILLE, Chillicothe GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1982 JAMES W. BROWN, Harrisonville J. J. GRAF, Hermann RICHARD J. CHAMIER, Moberly JOHN K. HULSTON, Springfield ILUS W. DAVIS, Kansas City MRS. MARY BANKS PARRY, Columbia ALFRED O. FUERBRINGER, St. Louis ARVARH H. STRICKLAND, Columbia Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1983 CHARLES BLANTON III, Sikeston VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana SAMUEL A. BURK, Kirksville MRS. JEAN TYREE HAMILTON, Marshall R. I. COLBORN, Paris W. ROGERS HEWITT, Shelbyville W. W. DALTON, St. Louis DOYLE PATTERSON, Kansas City 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 Committee. 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 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 1020 Lowry Street Columbia, Missouri 65201 AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE The editorial staff of the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW asks that members of the State Historical So­ ciety of Missouri, who are moving or have moved to a 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 1020 Lowry Street Columbia, Missouri 65201 THE FLOYD C. SHOEMAKER HISTORY AWARD The State Historical Society of Missouri takes pleasure in announcing the eighth round of compe­ tition for the Floyd C. Shoemaker History Award. This $250.00 annual award was created by the late Mr. Shoemaker, the long-time secretary of the Society, for the advancement of Missouri history in the univer­ sities, colleges and high schools throughout the state. The annual award alternates every other year be­ tween junior class students in Missouri colleges and universities and senior high school students in Mis­ souri. The 1981 award of $250.00 will be presented for the best article written by a senior high school student. The award will be presented at the 1981 annual meet­ ing of the State Historical Society. Articles nominated for the award must relate to the history of Missouri, either to events or person­ alities. The maximum length of an article is 5,000 words and a bibliography must be included. Each high school must select a panel of judges to nominate its best article by a senior high student. Only one article may be submitted from each high school. Each article will be judged against other nomina­ tions by the Department of History of the University of Missouri-Columbia. Articles submitted for this award will become the property of the State His­ torical Society of Missouri. The prize-winning article will be considered for publication in the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVTEW. The final date for submission of articles is July 1, 1981. The articles must be sent to the State Historical Society of Missouri, Room 2, Elmer Ellis Library, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201. CONTENTS GOTTFRIED DUDEN: A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MISSOURI PROMOTER. By James W. Goodrich 131 TRADER WILLIAM GILLISS AND DELAWARE MIGRATION IN SOUTHERN MISSOURI. By Lynn Morrow 147 THE KNIGHTS OF FATHER MATHEW: PARALLEL ETHNIC REFORM. By Martin G. Towey and Margaret LoPiccolo Sullivan 168 HISTORY OF MORRISON OBSERVATORY, 1875-1979. By Bartlett C Jones 184 BENNETT CHAMP CLARK AND THE 1936 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. By Thomas T. Spencer 197 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Society Holds Annual Meeting 214 News in Brief 221 Local Historical Societies 223 Gifts 236 Missouri History in Newspapers 240 Missouri History in Magazines 246 Graduate Theses Relating to Missouri History 250 In Memoriam 251 Editorial Policy 253 BOOK REVIEW 254 BOOK NOTES 257 vi HIM Gottfried Duden: A Nineteenth-Century Missouri Promoter BY JAMES W. GOODRICH* In 1860 Missouri's population estimate counted 1,182,012. Of this number, the foreign-born Germans totaled 88,487, ranking the state sixth in the number of transplanted Prussians in the United States. Promotional literature, which enticed the foreigners to settle in Missouri and other midwestern states, contributed significantly to this German influx. Gottfried Duden, a Remscheid-born German, became one of the major promotional writers. He produced a number of works, *James W. Goodrich, associate director of The State Historical Society of Missouri and an associate editor of the MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW, presented this address at the Society's Annual Meeting, October 25, 1980. Dr. Goodrich is the general editor of the first completely translated and annotated edition of Gottfried Duden's famous 1829 work, Report on a Journey to the Eastern States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri. The 1980 volume of Duden's Report is copublished by The State Historical Society of Missouri and the University of Missouri Press. It may be purchased for $22.00 from the University of Missouri Press, P. O. Box 1644, Columbia, Mis­ souri 65205. Missouri residents should include $1.02 for sales tax in the pay­ ment which must accompany the order. 131 132 Missouri Historical Review books, articles and pamphlets that could be considered promotional literature. His books concerning this subject were Europe and Germany as Viewed from North America (2 vol., 1833-1835); The North American Democracy and [Alexis] de Tocquevilles Work (1837) and his earlier Report on a Journey to the Western States of North America and a Stay of Several Years Along the Missouri (During the Years 1824, '25, '26, and 1827). This latter work, first published in 1829, revised in 1834, and specially published by the Swiss Emigration Society in 1832 and 1835, has been characterized by the eminent historian of emigration, Marcus L.
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