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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0260 MG4-189 to MG4-190

Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri Rudolph Mackwitz (St. Louis, Missouri, secretary, notary, and claims agent.) N00018782 1828? Categories: People

St. Louis, Missouri, secretary and notary. Native of Germany. Married to Anna Sophia Hatawa Mackwitz in St. Louis, Missouri. Secretary of the St. Louis Builders Association in St. Louis in 1860. Employed Caroline Huffman as a servant in St. Louis in 1860. Notary in St. Louis in 1863. Claims agent and attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1864.

Relationships Social: George E. Harding (St. Louis, Missouri, merchant and bank president.) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Political: James W. Tate ("Honest Dick" Asst. Sec of State 1859-1863) Political: J. B. Cates (St. Louis, Missouri, cashier) Political: George E. Harding (St. Louis, Missouri, merchant and bank president.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis, Ward 5, p. 68. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, St. Louis County, MO, June-Sept. 1863, p. 202. Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M776, Roll 4, St. Louis County, Missouri, 1864, p. 213. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, St. Louis County, p. 375 "Rudolph Mackwitz (unknown-1887)," Find A Grave, Memorial 142823034, accessed October 11, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142823034. KYR-0001-017-0260. Samuel W. Eager Jr. (Clerk of the St. Louis County Court) N00006531 1827-11-19 Categories: People

St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, clerk. New York native. Son of Samuel W. Eager and Catherine Macaulay Eager. Married to Clara D. Marsh Eager in St. Louis County, Missouri, on May 7, 1857. Father of Catherine "Kate" Macaulay Eager, Henry Marsh Eager, and Robert Whitney Eager. Clerk in St. Louis in 1850. Clerk of the St. Louis court house from 1849 to 1867.

Relationships Legal: Joseph Lathrop (St. Louis, Missouri, bond agent) Legal: Rudolph Mackwitz (St. Louis, Missouri, secretary, notary, and claims agent.) Legal: State of Missouri

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Missouri, St. Louis County, St. Louis, Ward 4, p. 77B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Wisconsin, Racine County, Mount Pleasant, p. 309B-310A. Missouri, U.S., Marriage Records, 1805-2002, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, MO, St. Louis County, p. 252. Marsh Genealogy. Giving Several Thousand Descendants of John Marsh of Hartford, Ct., 1636-1895. Also Including Some Account of English Marshes, and a Sketch of the Marsh Family Association of America, ed. Dwight Whitney Marsh (Amherst, MA: Carpenter & Moorehouse, 1895), 459. St. Louis County, Missouri P00018791 Categories: Places

County in central eastern Missouri. Seat at Clayton.

38.6103, 90.4125 "Saint Louis County, Missouri," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 14, 2022, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. State of Missouri O00018723 1821 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Missouri. Capitol at Jefferson City. Governors: Robert Marcellus Stewart (1857-1861), Claibourne Fox Jackson (1861), Hamilton Rowan Gamble (1861-1864), William Preble Hall (1864-1865), Thomas Clement Fletcher (1865-1869).

Relationships Political: William McNeill Clough (Platte County, Missouri, lawyer. ) Legal: Rudolph Mackwitz (St. Louis, Missouri, secretary, notary, and claims agent.)

“Historical Listing of Missouri Governors,” Missouri Secretary of State, accessed October 3, 2022, https://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/historicallistings/governors. Perry McCandless, A History of Missouri: Volume II, 1820-1860, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1972), 9-11. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Saint Louis, Saint Louis County, Missouri 1861-12-02 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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State of Missouri County of St Louis. } ss;

Be it remembered that on this the Second day of December A.D. 1861 before me the undersigned Secretary of the Board of County Commissioners, and Ex officio County Clerk of said County personally came Rudolph Mackwitz who being duly sworn on his oath says that he will well and truly execute and perform all the duties of Commissioner of Deeds for the State of Kentucky, within the State of Missouri,

R Mackwitz

Subscribed and sworn to before me at the City of St Louis, the date aforesaid

Witness my hand and Official Seal,

Saml W. Eager Jr Secretary & Ex officio Clerk of St. Louis County Missouri,

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONER