Finding Aids

 "Dunnegan Estate Sale Donations"

AGI-007-19                     Dunnegan Estate Sale Donations                          4D-3
This oversized box contains items that were purchased at the Dunnegan Estate Sale in early May, 2019, and donated to the library by three different individuals – Dave Berry, JoAnne Christian and Cay Sergent. Jerry Wilson  has put on loan a book and newspaper clippings found in the book. These items will remain with the collection until Mr. Wilson asks for them back. All items were put together in one newspaper box. Each folder/item lists which person donated the item.
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The last Frisco calendar published -1980     from D. Berry Olive Dunnegan Bible     from J. Christian    there is no genealogical information Marriage License of T.H.B. Dunnegan and Sallie A. Beggs      from Cay Sergent 8x10 photo of Polk County’s 1st Quota of Drafted Men      from D. Berry Family Worship for Every Day in the Year by John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D.  c.1894                      on loan only from Jerry Wilson
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1	Items from Dave Berry Postcard addressed to Miss Maria Ash---, Mt. Carbon, W. Va.    Postmarked Clifton Forge, Va. December 15, 1906 Photo – Soldier’s Home, Sawtelle, Calif. Two empty envelopes addressed to Miss Olive L. Dunnegan, Bolivar, Polk County, Mo.  Postmarked Zellwood, Fla. April 29, ???? and Kansas City, Mo. May 7, 1925 Empty envelope addressed to T.H.B. Dunnegan, Bolivar, Mo. from Hachita Mercantile Co., Hachita, NM    postmark unreadable Missouri, the Mother of Empires speech of Hon. William P. Borland of Missouri in the House of Representatives, May 22, 1911    11 pgs. Plat of Right of Way to be secured from T.H.B. Dunnegan for Route 13
2	Items from Dave Berry Book – Shadowgraphs Anyone Can Make created and drawn by Phila H. Webb, Verses by Jane Corby    c. 1927 by Stoll & Edwards Co., Inc., New York        missing front cover The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin   Summer 1956 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin   October 1955 ARTnews    Volume 61, Number 1, March, 1970     published by NEWSWEEK, INC.
3	Items from Dave Berry Menus from Paquebot Liberte     June & October, 1951  printed in French and English with a copy of artwork on the front.    5 June and 5 October menus
4	Items from Cay Sergent 1919 Commencement Program for bolivar High School Program for the Masonic Ceremonies of Laying the Cornerstone of the Court House of Polk County, Mo.   May 24, 1906       2 copies Official Statement at Close of Business, June 23, 1909, for Polk County Bank 5x7 photo of Dunnegan flower garden    (photo is faded) Unidentified photo of young man in folder Unidentified group photo of 31 young women
	Prints (11) from Dave Berry Color print of fruit and basket Black & white print of George Berkeley 1685-1753 from photograph of original painting by Suisbert Black & white print Poulterers by A. Wellander ’91      c. by artist in 1894   (photogravure goupil) Black & white print Winter Morning by G. Inness 1882   (photogravure goupil) Black & white print of mother and baby   c. 1893 by W.O. Richardson     (photogravure goupil) Black & white print Drifting Mallards by Richard E. Bishop Black & white print c. 1894 by George Burris     painting done by Aranda, Seville 188- Black & white print c. 1884 by G.B.    deathbed scene Black & white print c. 1893 by George Burris  painting of shepherd girl by Charles Sprague Pearce Color print My Little Brother painted by Alfred Guillou, printed by George Burris Black & white print c. 1894 by George Burris      Civil War scene
5	Newspaper clippings found in Family Worship on loan from Jerry Wilson. The date and source on many are not given. Photocopies and original clippings of the following New Methodist Church to be dedicated Sunday (Bolivar United Methodist Church) Western Union telegram to T.H.B. Dunnegan from R.B. Mathews – birth of Berkeley, October 1912 Obituary – Sallie B. Dunnegan, wife of T.H.B. Dunnegan Marriage of Grace Dunnegan to Dr. Nicholas H. Prusch in 1912  (two copies of original clipping) Missouri Methodist Hospital flyer by Dr. J.J. Bentley   2 pgs. Photo – Dr. J.J. Bentley turning first spade full of ground for present hospital  (Missouri Methodist) in 1915 Dr. Bentley Funeral Services Yesterday    July, 1923 Obituary – J.J. Bentley Dr. Bentley Dead     5 pgs. Last Loving Tribute Paid to Mrs. Bentley    2 pgs. Golden Anniversary for Dr. and Mrs. J.J. Bentley    2 pgs. Southern Missouri Methodist Conference Charter Member Dies – Rev. Charles Carrol Woods
6	Newspaper clippings found in Family Worship on loan from Jerry Wilson. The date and source on many are not given. Immortality from a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher Bible Facts: Deck of Cards as Bible Fanny Crosby, Hymn Writer The First and Seventh Day      2 copies The Why of Easter Date A Prayer by Alice Wilson Oldroyd A Prayer in Old Age by Rev. Archibald Alexander Prayer for the Day By Edgar A. Guest Confidence in View of Death by Victor Hugo Gone by Clifford Reynolds Knight   Kansas City Star 17 Apr 1920 The Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds Poems Asked for   Kansas City Star 10 Nov 1910 Pgs. 1 & 2 Practical Christianity for Practical Christians  Weekly Unity, vol. XIX, No 50  7 Apr 1928 Musings at Eventide by Charles Carroll Woods    St. Louis Daily Globe 15 July 1917 Southern Missouri Methodist Charter member Dies  Rev. Charles Carrol Woods   1927 Queen Victoria’s Tomb Divinity of Christ Claimed by Himself, Says Rev. W.J. Ryan The Democracy of the Dead John J. Ingall’s eulogy on Congressman Burnes of Missouri The Relief of Lucknow from a letter to the London Times by the wife of an officer at Lucknow   1910 Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson The Tercentenary of John Bunyan Recalls the Story of One of the World’s Greatest Books (The Pilgrim’s Progress)    Kansas City Star 20 July 1928 Methodism’s Work in Rome Rainbows Cross Each Other Trace Symbols of Christmas candies, tree and mistletoe are relics of nature worship days  1920 Listening by Frank Grubbs
7	Newspaper clippings found in Family Worship on loan from Jerry Wilson. The date and source on many are not given. New Testament of today is seen as true version 1929 Greatest Religious Work of Rembrandt brought to U.S.   Kansas City Star 29 Sep 1922 A Senator’s Bible Reading Sen. Beveridge of IN    1907 To a Skeleton unknown author A Guard of the Sepulchre by Edwin Markham   Kansas City Star 22 Mar 1913 An Armistice Day Prayer by Rev. George Elton Harris 1924 In Flanders Field by Col. John McRae   Kansas City Star, 1921 War Prayers Immortal poem a legacy – In Flanders Field   Kansas City Star 1922 Poppies will be sold by bevies of pretty girls Armistice Day Poetry Debout les Morts John Dunnegan   1918, France For these Things We Give Thanks Miss Dunnegan (Olive) to become Missionary A world View of the Bible  Kansas City Star 16 Apr 1911 Columbus by Joaquin Miller An Investment in religion by Wilbur Lakes Thanks Day first observed in this state 82 years ago, Annual Union Thanksgiving Service held at the Mosque Christ’s birth in words of one syllable Mother o’ Mine the song of the world Easter and Passover fall on same date The Old Optimist from Philadelphia Ledger Ill feeling almost ruined first official Thanksgiving Day in 1789  Kansas City Times 24 Nov 1932 Easter Day looms large in history of centuries The history of Thanksgiving  Kansas City Post 29 Nov 1922
8	Newspaper clippings found in Family Worship on loan from Jerry Wilson. The date and source on many are not given. The first Easter as depicted in art   1910 Victor Hugo’s Easter hope Easter by Amy Baron Leonard Easter Day by Katherine Edelman West End men hear Chancellor J.R. Day on significance of Easter What he thought    (about Chief Justice John Marshall, Bunyan and the Bishop) A Baby’s Prayer from Richmond Times-Dispatch Asleep in Jesus – death of Anna Sallie Dunnegan, 2 yr. old daughter of THB & Ella C. Dunnegan We Are Seven by William Wordsworth Sermons in Song – The Man of Uz by Wilbur Nesbit History of bible given in sermon by Rev. Geistweit Think on This Quatrain Small clippings of a few lines 1) Dorothy Dunnegan returns to school after Dunnegan-Prusch wedding 2) Robert Dunnegan returns to Ithaca, NY, after wedding 3) Rev. D.T. Simmons and son selected to sing at Mrs. Dunnegan’s funeral (two copies) 4) Card of Thanks from THB Dunnegan and children            5) Near the Close – S.Weir Mitchell 6) Book brings $34,000 – The Pilgrim’s Progress
9	Miscellaneous items rather than newspaper clippings found in Family Worship on loan by Jerry Wilson. Ribbon with poem by Ophelia G. Browning     (the title is missing because of the frayed top) With Loving Wishes for Your Birthday – poem by Gretchen Photo of Thomas Harvey Hagerty, D.D., Kansas City, MO 9 May 1917       page from unknown book St. John and the Lamb (painting) by Bartolome Esteban Murillo   2 pgs. The Story of the Empty Tomb by Fred P. Fisher          from The Epworth Herald 7 Sep 1912  Christmas card to THB Dunnegan from youngest son, John