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Charles Kearney
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Biographical sketch of Charles Esmonde Kearney, or Charles Kearney, a railroad executive and former western freighter, born in Ireland in 1820 and emigrating to Westport in 1852 in "partnership with W. R[.] Barnard [sic], soon concentrating all the Santa Fe outfitting trade at the point."
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1878
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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 John Wornall, "president of the Kansas City National Bank, now the Bank of Kansas City." Born in Kentucky in 1822 and moving to Jackson County, Missouri in 1844 with his father as a farmer south of Westport, serving as a trustee of William Jewell College and Missouri state senator from about 1869 to 1873.
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1878
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The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Dr. Samuel Chauncey Parsons, Samuel Parsons, a Kansas City physician. Born in Massachusetts in 1809 and coming to Kansas City in 1869 with "land one mile from the city limits on the Westport road." Description also of his sons' "general insurance business, at No. 603 Main street, Kansas City" formerly operated by Samuel J. Parsons and his brother Burton Parsons.
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1878
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The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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Photo and bio of Captain Eugene Bartlett Millett, or Eugene Millett, a livestock executive in Kansas City. Born in Texas in 1838 and starting in the cattle industry as a youth before beginning to drive them to Westport and other parts of Missouri and Kansas in the late 1860s, with "elegant residence on the bluff between [6th Street and 7th Street], one of the finest and probably the most expensive in construction in Kansas City."
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Date
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1878
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The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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Photo and bio of George Briant, a native of Cooper County, Missouri. He moved to Jackson County as a youth and attended Highland Academy. In 1851 he was "employed in the Santa Fe freighting train," traveling on "no less than sixty-six trips from Jackson county, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico," until attacked by Indians in 1864, with a large court case over the resulting loss of freight. Afterwards in 1865 moving to Kansas City with the bank of Watkins & Company and in 1877 engaged in Colorado trade with base in Westport.
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1878
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Book
