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Title
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Old Westport Landing
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Description
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Autobiographical article about Father Bernard Donnelly's (a reprint from the Kansas City Journal of Commerce from January 1, 1876) experiences on arriving in Independence and Westport Landing (later Kansas City) in 1845. Description of various Santa Fe traders and other citizens and anecdotes about them back to the 1840 murder of Don Antonio Chavez by a "certain Dr. Fontenelle."
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Rebel Child of Civil War Days: Frances M. Lipscomb Hickman
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Description
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Biographical article about Frances M. Lipscomb Hickman, or Frances Hickman "of Independence," granddaughter of John Harris (of the Harris House hotel in Westport). Born "a mile south of Dallas, Missouri," in 1847 and growing up in Civil War Westport with her uncles Charles Kearney and William Bernard before marrying William Hickman, "the son of Edwin A. Hickman, who established the mill known as Hickman's Mill."
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Date
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2001-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Twyman, a Legendary Name in Jackson County
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, map, and biographical article about the Twyman family of physicians of Jackson County, starting with Dr. Leo Twyman (1797-1872), a native of Kentucky moving to Saint Charles in 1827 and then Westport in 1844 and Independence in 1845. Description of his son Dr. Lyddall Twyman (1825-1902), son-in-law of Judge Richard Fristoe, and other later Twymans.
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Date
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1995
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
