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St Louis Mercantile Library's Rise and Later Auctions
Historic St Louis Mercantile Library grew from 1845 efforts by Tevis Woods and others to a permanent home on Locust and Fifth in 1855. The 510 Locust building funded by perpetual memberships enabled a cultural center with lectures by Beecher, Stowe, art exhibits, and a long delivery service for 3000-plus members and 172000 volumes. A Linn County property sale and local notices follow in the issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Floyd C. Shoemaker
St. Louis
Robert K. Woods
Col. A. B. Chambers
Peter Powell
Robert Woods
John Franklin
R.perry
William Scott
John Halsall
John Tevis
Tevis
Scott
Mercantile Library Association
Pine and
Main Streets
Mercantile Library Hall Company of
Locust and
Fifth Streets
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry Ward Beecher
George C. Bingham
Locust Street
Mercantile Library
Robert S. Brookings
Association
James E. Yeatman
Alfred Vinton
H. E. Bridge
Henry Bacon
John Douglass
Alfred Carr
Richard Scruggs
A. L. Shapleigh
C. W. Scudder
H. B. Wallace
Library
W. L. R. Gifford