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Title
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Memoirs of Francis Clay Wornall
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Description
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Description of farmland "about two miles south of Westport," bought by the Wornall family in 1843 from the McCoy family, "patented" partly by John C. McCoy and partly by his father and Indian missionary Isaac McCoy in 1835-1836.
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Date
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1963-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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From the Archives
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Description
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One paragraph about the collection of photographs from the Swoford family showing "a street corner and some buildings, horses and street car tracks, and on the side of one building. ..printed P[alace] S[tables and] S[hoeing] S[hop]," possibly at the corner of Westport and Main Streets in 1899.
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Date
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1964-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Letters to the Editor
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Description
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Reply to the magazine's inquiry about the location of the Palace Stables & Shoeing Shop in an earlier issue, placing the livery stable "at Westport and Main and. ..torn down to provide the building site of what was to become the Warwick theatre."
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Date
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1965-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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McCoys of Early-Day Independence: John McCoy
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Description
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Photos and biographical description of John McCoy (1816-1904), a Santa Fe trader and newspaper journalist coming to Independence with his brother, William McCoy, in 1838, and building his large house at "the northwest corner of Main and White Oak streets in Independence, in 1887."
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Date
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1964-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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McCoys of Early-Day Independence: Alexander Watts McCoy
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Description
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Portrait and biographical description of Alexander Watts McCoy, or Alexander McCoy, a civil engineer and publisher of an abolitionist newspaper in Independence. Description of his life and career, born in Ohio in 1812 as a brother of William and John McCoy and coming to Independence in 1849, then having his printing establishment destroyed during the Civil War Battle of Independence and leaving Jackson County for good.
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Date
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1964-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
