Given by Eugene Edge III.

Though his main focus was Columbia, the publisher had correspondents in many of the large & small communities in central Missouri.

The newspaper clippings consist of birth, death and marriage information, and, estate information. Some, if not all, of these clippings came from the Herald-Whig, Quincy, Illinois. The newspaper(s) includes information about both Illinois and Missouri residents. The names of individuals in these records are roughly in alphabetical order. This material is part of the Mildred Hooper collection.