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Title
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Daniel Yoacham
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Description
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All the items in the folder are poor quality photocopies. They include reminiscences by Sallie H. Klaber, death certificate of John F. McCormack, deed recordings, and other sources of information on people who were descendants of Daniel Yoacham of Westport. The copies were sent to Adrienne Christopher, a descendant of Daniel Yoacham also. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Date
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1842/1973
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Memories of Old Westport
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Description
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Description of the Harris House Hotel and Yoacham Tavern in pioneer Westport as firsts of their kind there.
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Date
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1924-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Cowtown Chronicles: Murder Most Foul on the Santa Fe Trail
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Description
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Illustration and story about "the plot to rob wealthy trader Antonio Chavez" hatched at Yoacham Tavern in 1843 Westport, describing the futile efforts of the tavern's owner, Daniel Yoacham (dying in 1846), to prevent Don Antonio Jose Chavez's murder, vindicated by the capture of the murderers and hanging of their leaders, David McDaniel and John McDaniel, in Saint Louis in 1844.
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Date
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2000-09
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
