This collection is broken in to two series. Series I contains research materials on German Catholics and German Emigration to Arkansas during the late seventeenth century, including materials copied from the Spiritan Archives located in Pennsylvania, the Notre Dame Archives in Indiana, and the Ottenheimer Library at UALR. Materials are in English, French, and German, please note the parentheses with the bolded Language section for each file. Series II contains bounded materials with four ledgers from the Bird’s Store in Austin, Arkansas (Conway County). The two larger ledgers, from the 1920s and 1930s, show the accounts that local people charged at the store. The smaller two ledgers are from the stores’ expenses and are from the 1940s. The other two items in Series II are two yearbooks from 1930 and 1948-49 from Formosa Vocational High School, called The Chieftain.
Series I – German Catholics in Arkansas Research Materials
Box 1
File 1 – “Materials Relating to German Catholics in the Arkansas River Valley,” by Kenneth C. Barnes, November 13, 2019
File 2 – Ludwigs-Verein Letters relating to the Conway/Morrilton area – Ludwig Mission Society (Located on reels in the Notre Dame Archives, IN; Language: German)
File 3 – Recruitment Material, 1870s-1880s (Located in the Spiritan Archives, Congregation of the Holy Ghost, Pennsylvania; Language: French and German)
File 4 – Correspondence and Reports from St. Joseph, Conway, Ark., 1878-1953 (Located in the Spiritan Archives; Language: French and English)
File 5 – St. Joseph’s German Emigrants – Establishment of St. Joseph’s Colony in Conway, Ark. – Family Histories for:
- Enderlin
- Faber/Favre
- Haas
- Hiegel
- Lachowsky
- Luyet
- Nahlen
- Napholtz/Nabholz
- Simon
- Strack
- Thessing
File 6 – St. Joseph’s German Emigrants Research from Father Warren Harvey – Declarations of Intent to Become Citizens of the United States, 1915-1924, for:
- Frank Joseph Haas
- Frank Joseph Lachowsky
- Adalbert Lachowsky
- Johann “John” Lachowsky
- Alexander Moix
- Maurice Moix
- Cyprian P. Moix
- Baptiste Daniel Moix
- Christopher Rumker
- Pete Nahlen
- Frank Unger
- Frank Moll
- Joe Hambuchen
- Maurice Anthamatten
- J. Morris Daven
- Joseph Lewis Dayer
- Edward Imboden
- Joseph Prouse
File 7 – St. Joseph’s German Emigrants Research from Shirley Schutte – Auswandererbriefe microfilm located at the Ottenheimer Library at UALR (Language: German)
File 8 – Correspondence from Marienstatt, Morrilton, Ark., 1879-1885 (Located in the Spiritan Archives; Language: French)
File 9 – Correspondence from Marienstatt, Morrilton, Ark., 1886-1892 (Located in the Spiritan Archives; Language: French and English)
File 10 – Official Reports of Marienstatt and Sacred Heart, 1878-1901
File 11 – Sacred Heart History and Research Materials, Marienstatt, Morrilton, Ark., 1878-1939 (Located in the Spiritan Archives; Language: English, French, and German)
File 12 – Miscellaneous Materials for Sacred Heart, Marienstatt, Morrilton, Ark. (Located in the Spiritan Archives; Language: English)
File 13 – Koren, Henry J. The Serpent and the Dove: A History of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost in the United States 1745-1984; Chapter 4: “The Trials and Travails of Pioneering: Arkansas 1878-1900”
File 14 – The Church of the Good Shepherd, Conway, Ark., 1948-1955 – African American Congregation (Located in the Spiritan Archives)
File 15 – Leopold Foundation Reports and Newspapers, 1879- (Located in the Spiritan Archives; Language: English and German)
File 16 – Schede, Simone, “‘Gone, but not forgotten’ – But Almost: The German Heritage of Arkansas,” in American Studies: A Quarterly Vol. 44, no. 4 (1999)
File 17 – Schuette, Shirley Sticht. “Strangers to the Land: The German Presence in the Nineteenth Century Arkansas,” Master’s Thesis – Public History, UALR (2005)
File 18 – English Translation of Leitstern, translated as The Guiding Star, for the St. Joseph’s Colony, by Dr. Kenneth C. Barnes, 1996
File 19 – Barnes, Kenneth C. “‘Don’t Go to Arkansas:’ How the Prussian Government Tried to Curb Emigration to the Arkansas River Valley in 1881 and 1882,” Faulkner County Facts & Fiddlings (2001) AND Research Materials for the article
File 20 – Barnes, Kenneth C. Who Killed John Clayton? Political Violence and the Emergence of the New South, 1861-1893. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Book, Video, and Study Guide Pamphlet (2 copies)
End of Box 1
End of Series I
Series II – Bound Materials
Box 1
Item 1 – Formosa Vocational High School Yearbook – The Chieftain – 1930
Item 2 – Formosa Vocational High School Yearbook – The Chieftain – 1948-49
Item 3 – Bird’s Store Ledger, 1928-1930 – Austin (Conway County), Arkansas
Item 4 – Bird’s Store Ledger, 1932-1946 – Austin (Conway County), Arkansas
Item 5 – Bird’s Store Expenses Ledger, 1940s – Austin (Conway County), Arkansas
Item 6 – Bird’s Store Expenses Ledger, 1940s – Austin (Conway County), Arkansas
End of Box 1
End of Series II
Series III
Box 1
File 1-Cadron
File 2- Conway Co. Illustrations
File 3-Statistics: People Data, Conway County
File 4- Clayton vs. Breckinridge
File 5-Conway County, Research Notes
File 6-Autobiography of Pleasant Houston Spears, manuscript