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Title: Station Stalwart Steps Down
Description: After a seven-year tenure, Mike Haverty is stepping down as chairman of the board of Union Station at Kansas City. Haverty, who is executive chairman of the Kansas City Southern railroad, has been an active supporter of Union Station since it was reopened in 1999. He will remain on the board of directors.
Date: 2012-06-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Car Dealer Was Area Fixture
Description: Local car dealer R. Lloyd Ketcham died March 8, 2008, at the age of 97. He opened his own car dealership in Liberty, Missouri, in 1950. Ketcham Oldsmobile then moved to Independence in 1958. It still remains today as Broome Oldsmobile. The Ketchams were also philanthropists giving money to various educational institutions including the University of Missouri at Columbia. Includes his picture and that of his wife.
Date: 2008-03-27
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Family Time
Description: Photos and biographical article about family businesses in Greater Kansas City including the following: (1) CPG Incorporated run by Georgia Clark and her daughter Neoshia Paige, (2) J. M. Fahey Construction Company run by Kevin Fahey and his brother Joe Fahey, (3) O'Neill Communications run by Pat O'Neill, his wife Julie O'Neill, and their daughter Keli O'Neill Wenzel.
Date: 2001-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: William Volker
Description: Charcoal pencil drawing of William Volker (1859-1947) by artist Frank Goodman (1892-1944), head of The Kansas City Star art department. Note attached to back of framed drawing reads: "Mr. Goodman presented this Wm. Volker portrait to the library. I would suggest that Mr. Van Millet be consulted as to framing, PBW" (Purd Wright).
Date: 1940~
Object Type: Artwork

Title: Venerable Store Loses a Link to the Past
Description: Article features the Strasser Hardware store and Harold Strasser who recently died at age 100. The store is located at 910 Southwest Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas. Harold's father A. L. Strasser opened Rosedale Plumbing and Electrical in 1917 and Harold started working there at age 10. The store soon became A. L. Strasser Hardware and is a fifth-generation business. "Strasser Hardware now is up to 45, 000 square feet, taking a small city block at 910 Southwest Blvd. It has nearly 60 employees. As a True Value co-op store, Strasser has the buying power of about 5,400 stores...and it brags about its inventory--100,000 items ranging from various nuts and bolts to lumber to water heaters." Harold Strasser was named the "Oldest Male Worker" in Kansas in 2000 and died March 11, 2008.
Date: 2008-03-26
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Biography of Louis S. Rothschild (1900-1984), Merchant and Civic Leader
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: The Plaza Perception
Description: Cover story about the Country Club Plaza and some of its locally owned businesses. Includes a map, "Who Is Local at the Plaza?" identifying not only the locally owned business but all the stores on the Plaza.
Date: 2011-03-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: He Molded Company Into a Success
Description: Leo Willliam Zahner, Jr., of Olathe, Kansas, died November 15, 2007. He is featured in the "Tribute" column found with the newspaper's obituaries. He was the third generation of his family to run A. Zahner Sheet Metal Company. "He was the one who took a small maker of ornamental metalwork and made it a factor in some of the nation's highest-profile architecture." The company was founded by Andrew Zahner in 1871. In recent years "it crafted the Sky Stations atop Bartle Hall, the aqua-tinted siding on the new Kansas City Star press building, the metal inside and outside the new addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and the wheat sculpture that adorns the Kansas City Board of Trade."
Date: 2007-12-29
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Deal of a Lifetime
Description: Article reports the acquisition of Fishnet Security, a Kansas City-based information security business, by Lake Capital of Chicago, Illinois. FishNet was founded in the mid-1990s by "serial entrepreneur" Gary Fish, who evolved the business from a small one-man operation to a large computer security company. Fish has since started two new companies: Secure Passage, a software spinoff of Fishnet, and a real estate group called FishNet LLC.
Date: 2008-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Garmin Finds a Sure Way to Success
Description: The top company in the Kansas City Star's Star 50 list is Garmin Ltd. The Olathe-based company manufactures navigation gear, and the CEO is Min Kao who emigrated from Taiwan in 1976 and co-founded, with Gary Burrell, the company in 1989. The company is the No. 1 manufacturer of navigation gear in the U.S. and is No. 2 in Europe. They employ 4,700 people and have sales of $1.77 billion. Garmin outsources almost no work and even advertising is done in house. "The company's vast product line means its gear shows up not just in electronics retailers, but in major department stores, sports retailers, specialty marine shops, aircraft supply houses and even cell phones. Garmin products are sold in stores from Australia to Zimbabwe."
Date: 2007-05-15
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: From the Stacks: Western Historical Manuscript Collection--Kansas City. The William Volker and Company
Description: Writings on William Volker have usually focused on his philanthropic activities rather than his business. Volker was an astute and hard-working businessman who expected the same of his employees. He built a successful business in home furnishings and, even with his generous donations to charity in his lifetime, the William Volker Charities Fund exceeded $15 million at the time of his death.
Date: 2007-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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