1930-1939 Theses (MU)
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Item The legislative career of Champ Clark(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1933) Bevington, Ethel Elizabeth"Champ Clark, christened James Beauchamp Clark, was born in a Kentucky farm cottage on March 7, 1850, in the town of Lawrenceburgh, some sixty-odd miles from Louisville. His was a typical pioneer home, a small structure with low ceilings and rough clapboard finishings. His father, John Hampton Clark, was a New Englander who had migrated to Kentucky. Although a member of a distinguished family, John Clark had been overcome by adversity, and occupied a relatively humble position in life. A. wagon-maker by profession., he was also a dentist, a singing master, and a student of current affairs. Champ Clark's mother, Aletha Jane Beauchamp, a daughter of one of Kentucky's prominent jurists, died at an early age, leaving two children, Champ and Elizabeth."--Page 1.Item A history of the hemp industry in Missouri(University of Missouri., 1938) Easton, Miles W.Hemp, one of the oldest known fiber plants was cultivated in China and India as early as 500 A. D. With the rise of civilization and the development of those activities that create a demand for this fiber, the hemp culture spread to other parts of the world. By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it was grown extensively in Russia, France, and Italy. Russia was considered the leading hemp producing country of the world at that time. The hemp plant yields a strong and durable fiber. Consequently, its fiber proved useful in the manufacture of rough fabric commodities. Then transportation on the high seas became an important factor in the commerce of the world, this fiber found another important use in the manufacture of riggings for sailing vessels. The plant was even grown for narcotic purposes at an early date in China and India. The hemp plant was first introduced into North America soon after the colonial settlements were established. It was grown in New England on a small scale, but considerable attention was given to its cultivation in Maryland and Virginia. Both the British government and the colonial legislatures attempted to promote the industry of hemp by offering bounties for its production in the latter part of the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth centuries. However, the industry did not assume any great importance in North America until the urgent need for it arose in the cotton industry. Kentucky grew hemp on a small scale by 1800. With the deinand for raw hemp for manufacture into cordage, bagging, and canvas, the industry expanded greatly in Kentucky, and began to extend to other western states, particularly to Missouri.--Introduction.Item John Brooks Henderson as a representative of border-state public opinion(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1939) Merideth, Dorothy McClure; Viles, Jonas"The stormy years of the Civil War and reconstruction period were years off confusion and strife in politics as well as in military affairs; fierce partisanship was the order of the day. No section of the country experienced this more than the border region, settled by people from both North and South and torn between these conflicting loyalties; Missouri furnishes an excellent example of this condition. John Brooks Henderson, the subject of this study, represented Missouri in the United States Senate during the greater part of the war between the states, and through the immediate post-war years. The climax of partisan hatreds which came with the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson marked the end of Henderson's effectual political career, for he had the courage to defy party demands and to vote for the acquittal of the Chief Executive who had earned the vituperative opposition of the Radical Republicans. The position of a border-state representative was often difficult in these years; the problems which Henderson met and tried to solve were probably typical in the experience of others of his region..."--Page [1]Item Place names of six northeast counties of Missouri(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1938) Elliott, Katherine; Ramsay, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1880-1953"Six counties, Marion, Shelby, Knox, Clark, Lewis, and Scotland, furnish the material for this thesis. In the lexioon which follows, we have sought to bring together as exhaustive a list of names as may be, with all information that could be discovered relating to their origin, and facts particularly interesting and important pertaining to their location and their history. The name-source, in a few cases, unfortunately remains unsolved. All such cases we have indicated by the asterisk; one, if there exists a conjecture only relative to the name; two, if the name remains wholly unsolved. Names we know have been lost. Too much time has elapsed for complete information to be secured. Chapters Two and Three enter into a classification of the names which we hope will prove illuminating to the student interested in such a study. There remains but to say that in no sense does this study make a pretense to being exhaustive. It has proved interesting, however, to the writer, and we hope may interest the reader equally well..."--Page v.Item Study of levels of living in three southeast Missouri counties(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1937) Hart, Grace EdithPreliminary statement: Purpose: The purpose of the study was to ascertain something of the levels of living of farm and village families in a selected area in Southeast Missouri. Particular emphasis is given to the tenure groups: owner, renter, share-cropper, and farm laborer. Scope: The inquiry included a sample of 1,533 households in the open country and villages of' Dunklin, New Madrid, and Pemiscot Counties in Southeast Missouri. The households were both white and Negro and represented all occupations and income groups. The scope of the inquiry is embodied in the schedule used, which appears in the Appendix...--Page 1.