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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Biographical sketch of Mary Luann Jones Gant, "Missouri's first woman state senator" who was born in Kansas City in 1936. She started her career with the Missouri Department of Agriculture and became state representative in 1966 and state senator in 1972.
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Date
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1989
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Book
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Photo and bio of Marion Nevada Talley, or Marion Talley (1906-1983), an opera singer born in Nevada, Missouri and raised in Kansas City before moving to New York City and Hollywood, appearing in the 1936 movie "Follow Your Heart."
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Date
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1993
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Biographical sketches of Dr. Alice Berry Graham (or Alice Graham, a dentist) and her sister Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson (or Katharine Richardson, a physician), founders of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City in the late 1800s.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Portrait and biographical description of Jessie Ann Benton Fremont (alternately spelled Jesse Fremont), or Jessie Fremont (1824-1902), a native of Virginia, the wife of John C. Fremont, and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Description of her life and career, growing up in Saint Louis and marrying Fremont in 1841, converting his western expedition notes into books in the 1840s, and becoming an editor and author, and after the couple's move to California in 1849 "maintaining an informal salon encouraging young writing talents such as Bret Harte," dying in Los Angeles.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book