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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Photo and bio of Walton Holmes, former president of the Kansas City and Westport Horse Railway Company and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, born in Independence, Missouri, in 1861 as a son of Nehemiah Holmes.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Directory
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Photo and bio of Hugh Campbell Ward, or Hugh Ward, a banker and former Missouri state representative of Kansas City. Born in Westport, Missouri in 1864 as a son of Seth Ward and becoming a lawyer.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Directory
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Description
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Photo and bio of George Collins, arriving in Kansas City in 1887 from New York, becoming a bank "cashier of the Westport Bank, and then the German Savings Bank of this city," and in 1892 forming "a partnership in the financial and fire insurance business."
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of Robert Jay Ingraham, or Robert Ingraham, city counselor of Kansas City and a former judge, born in Ohio in 1864 and coming to Kansas City in 1884. Also former mayor of the town of Westport, Missouri, before its consolidation with Kansas City.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Political History of Jackson County: Biographical Sketches of Men Who Have Helped to Make It
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Description
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Photo and bio of George Holmes, a livestock dealer and former grain store merchant, banker, and Western freighter, etc. Description of his life and career, born in England in 1834 and emigrating to Independence, Missouri, about 1850, moving to Westport in 1852 after working "with Alexander Majors' ox train to El Paso," and then moving to Kansas City in 1866, appointed county assessor in 1899 and city assessor in 1901.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
