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Title
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Hard Times for John Sutter in Westport, Missouri
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Description
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Portrait, map, photo, and biographical article about John Sutter (1803-1880), owner of the California land where the 1849 Gold Rush started. Born in Germany as Johann Augustus Suter and emigrating to Westport in 1837 on the way to the far west, buying a storehouse ("Lucas & Kavanaugh") and farm home near the later Uptown Theater (later the home of Allen McGee) and then moving to Oregon and California in 1838.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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New Civil War Markers in Loose Park
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Description
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Article about the "new historical markers depicting the Battle of Westport in Loose Park" made "[o]f steel and aluminum and replac[ing] those of wood (which rotted away" placed originally by the Boy Scouts in 1976).
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
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Description
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Entry about Westport Landing, Missouri, a town "founded in the early 1830s on the site of present-day Kansas City, Missouri, by Francois Chouteau as a trading post for the American Fur Company." Joined with the town of Westport, Missouri founded two miles to the south in 1833 by John McCoy as an "[i]mportant center on the Missouri River for transshipment of goods along the Santa Fe and Chihuahua Trail."
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Robert C. Corbett
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Robert Corbett, past president of the Westport Historical Society, retiring in 1987 as chairman of United Missouri Bank.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Our President's Biography
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Description
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Biographical article about Joe Montanari, "the 1998 elected president of the Westport Historical Society" and "the president of Montanari Fine Art Jewelers" established on Westport Road about 1973 and moved in the late 1990s to 114 West 47th Street on the Plaza.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
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Description
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Entry about Louis Vasquez (1798-1868), "[f]ur trapper and trader" of the West starting in the 1820s, native of Saint Louis, and retired resident of Westport, Missouri.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Gone but Not Forgotten: Death of John Calvin McCoy, an Old and Respected Citizen
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Description
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Photos, portraits, and biographical article about the McCoy family of John Calvin McCoy (1811-1889), or John McCoy of Westport and Kansas City. Information about his family members, including his daughters Mattie McCoy (1858-1938) and Eleanor McCoy (1840-1926), his father Isaac McCoy (1784-1846) and mother Christiana McCoy (?-1851), his wives Virginia Chick McCoy (1820-1849) and Elizabeth Woodson McCoy (1819-1896), and son Spencer Cone McCoy, or Spencer McCoy (1844-1863), killed in the Battle of Springfield. Also a photo of John McCoy's antebellum home in Westport and description of his first log house (also the post office and trading post) built at the northeast corner of Westport and Pennsylvania Avenues about 1833.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Gone but Not Forgotten: George Thoman, 1819-1907
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Description
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Biographical article about George Thoman (1819-1907), a guide for Union General Curtis during the Civil War Battle of Westport. Native of France emigrating to Kansas City in 1856 and settling at the "southeast corner of 55th and Prospect" Avenues.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
