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Title
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Driving Cattle from Old Westport to Coast Was Rugged Task 100 Years Ago
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Description
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Biographical article about James Gillespie Hamilton by his granddaughter, the author, describing his cattle drive in 1857-1858 from Westport to California as "a member of the firm [Blank & Blank Cattle Company] which occupied the historic building at the northwest corner of Westport road and Pennsylvania avenue," arriving in San Francisco with 715 of their original herd of 1000.
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Date
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1955-07-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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James Hamilton
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Description
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Information on James Hamilton, a Western freighter arriving in Westport in the early 1840s, native to Virginia. Illustrations and description of his career, becoming a merchant with Boone & Hamilton and then Bernard & Hamilton, building his home at the northwest corner of Westport Road and Belleview Avenue (sketched in Spalding's 1855 map of Westport), and traveling overland to California in 1858.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Westport Mo. and Its Additions
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Description
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Early map of Westport, Missouri, shows streets with names and width; some residences like Col. A. Boone; and the Godfrey Vineyard. A “Table of Distances” gives miles from Westport to places like San Francisco; Salt Lake City; Astoria, Oregon; Santa Fe; etc. It notes population of Westport in 1846 as 300 and in 1855 as 1500. It includes an inset map of Missouri, beginning around Jefferson City, and Kansas, showing rivers and roads, especially the Salt Lake City and California road.
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Date
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1855-07
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Historic Westport: The Hamiltons of Westport
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about the Hamiltons of mid-1800s Westport, James Hamilton (~1816-1869), a Western freighter, and his wife Cornelia Hamilton, a daughter of Thomas and Catherine Bernard. Description of their lives and residences, James arriving in Westport from Callaway County, Missouri, by 1843, marrying in 1844, and building their first house "at 557 Westport Road" in 1847 and their second "on what is now the center site of the Old Westport Shopping Center" at Westport Road and Belleview Avenue in 1854.
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Date
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1981-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Ben L. Welch Commission Company
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Description
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Photo and bio of James Hamilton, "connected with the Ben L. Welch firm shortly after its organization" in its cattle department.
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Date
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1897-06-15
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Odyssey of James Hamilton
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Description
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Extensive article about James Gillespie Hamilton, or James Hamilton (~1816-1869), and his wife Cornelia Bernard Hamilton, or Cornelia Hamilton, with photos of them and the author. Description of their lives in Westport with excerpts from numerous letters, starting with James in 1843 outfitting travelers for the Oregon Trail and John Fremont's expedition, with office in Boone's Trading Post, and continuing after James's death in 1869 with Cornelia's activities until her death in 1912.
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Date
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1969-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
