Sikes Rodgers Collection
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and government documents (proclamations, marriage certificates, etc.) from the from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Includes documents effecting local history around Jackson [MO], the state of Missouri, and the Louisiana Territory as a whole.
Dates
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1780-circa 1867, Bulk [1805-1813]
Rights Statement
Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).
Biographical / Historical
Sikes Rodgers was the mayor of Jackson [MO] from 1919 to 1921.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Correspondence and government documents (proclamations, marriage certificates, etc.) from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Includes documents effecting local history around Jackson [MO], the state of Missouri, and the Louisiana Territory as a whole.
Provenance
Documents stayed within the Rodgers family until Luella Rodgers donated the Collection to Special Collections and Archives.
- Title
- Sikes Rodgers Collection 1780-circa 1867, [1805-1813]
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Joshua Doll
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections and Archives Repository
One University Plaza, MS 4600
Cape Girardeau Missouri 63701 United States
5736512245
semoarchives@semo.edu