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Shubael Allen
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Description
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Illustrated portrait and biographical sketch of Colonel Shubael Allen (1793-1841), bridge builder in Pennsylvania and Kentucky before arriving in Clay County, Missouri, in 1820, becoming the county sheriff (1826-1830), judge (1831-1834), and namesake of Allen's Landing, starting in 1825.
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1878
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Book
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The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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Biographical sketch of Reverend Minerson Erastus Buck, or Minerson Buck, an Episcopal minister from Connecticut, moving to Michigan and then Kansas City in 1876," elected rector of S. Luke's [sic] parish, Kansas City, Missouri," the same year "elected to the chaplaincy of the Craig Rifles, an independent rifle company of Kansas City, and the most popular military organization in Western Missouri."
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Date
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1878
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Book
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John Thornton
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Colonel John Thornton (1786-1847), a Missouri state representative and military officer (involved with the establishment of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1829) of Liberty, Missouri. Native of Pennsylvania moving to Old Franklin, Missouri in 1817 and moving "to what is now Clay county, in April, 1820" as a farmer and "judge of the county court of Ray county" and then "judge of the county court of Clay county" in 1822.
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1878
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