Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Drips, Andrew, 1789?-1860
- Abstract:
- Papers mostly relating to Drips'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.
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.) - Extent:
- Number of containers: 1 box and 1 microfilm reel
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection contains chiefly correspondence and accounts of Andrew Drips as U.S. Indian Agent for the Upper Missouri, 1842-1846, and as fur trader for P. Chouteau, Jr. & Company at Fort John, Scotts Bluff. A few accounts, 1819-1820, for his partnership with Joseph W. Perkins and some Papers relating to his children and affairs in Kansas City, Missouri, are also included. With these are typed transcripts of articles from Kansas City newspapers, 1904-1907, concerning Drips' daughter, Catherine, and her husband, William Mulkey, as well as a few miscellaneous notes relating to the Drips family.
- Acquisition information:
- These papers were given to The Bancroft Library by the great-granddaughter of Andrew Drips, Mrs. Richard B. Hershey, in November 1960 and September 1961. The collection forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
- Physical location:
- For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481