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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Hugh Ward, a lawyer born in Westport, Missouri in 1863 and becoming a "counsel of the Kansas City Home Telephone Company, and a number of other large corporations," with offices in the Commerce Building.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Photo and bio of Arthur Allen, a Kansas City lawyer who became a state representative and state senator with offices in the Waterworks Building at 15th and Broadway. He was born in Virginia in 1831, became a surveyor there and came to Westport as a teacher before becoming Jackson County sheriff and then judge.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of James Chadwick Rieger, or James Rieger, a Kansas City lawyer and former mayor of Westport from 1891 to 1894. Born in North Carolina in 1856 and raised in Kansas City with offices in the New York Life Building.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Perry, a "[c]oal operator" in Kansas City as co-founder of the Keith & Perry Coal Company, later called the Central Coal & Coke Company. Born in England in 1850 and emigrating to Kansas as organizer of the company before moving it to Kansas City around 1890 and "construct[ing] the Perry Memorial Home, in Westport, a suburb of Kansas City."
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Walton Holmes
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Walton Holmes, a pioneer street railway manager in Kansas City. He was born in Independence, Missouri, in 1861 and started work on the street railways about 1876, "made vice-president of the Kansas City & Westport Horse Railway" about 1878, going on in 1886 to become "the first in the United States to demonstrate, in a practical way, the overhead trolley electric system," co-organizing the consolidation of the Grand Avenue Cable Company, Kansas City Cable Company, and Metropolitan Street Railway through the 1890s. Description of his later career, aiding in the building of the park and boulevard system and Convention Hall, "elected president of the American Street Railway Association" in 1900 and co-organizing the Pioneer Trust Company in 1902.
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Date
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1905-03-20
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Object Type
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Book