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Title: Case Family
Description: Information about the Case family, including Theodore S. Case (1832-1900), Ermine C. Case, Jr. (18??-1886), Oliver Case (1835-19??), and John L. Case (18??-?), and others, including wives, mothers, et al. Biographical descriptions of Theodore Case, an Ohio physician from Georgia moving to Kansas City in 1853. He was also city treasurer, a realtor, author, and promoter of the Hannibal & Saint Joseph Railroad. Ermine Case was a lawyer, realtor, builder, paleontologist, Kansas City resident, and member of the American Philosophical Society.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Year Book of the Society of Sons of the Revolution in the State of Missouri
Description: Photo and bio of Colonel Theodore Case (1832-1900), a physician and one of the founding teachers at the Kansas City Medical College. He was born in Georgia in 1832, arrived in Kansas City in 1857, and died in Kansas City in 1900.
Date: 1900
Object Type: Book

Title: Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the Board of Education of the Kansas City Public Schools, Kansas City, Mo., for Year Ending June 30, 1898
Description: Story in the book by Theodore Case entitled "Kansas City before and during the War," about the city's history in general and especially the author's observations of it from 1857 through the 1860s, concentrating on prominent early businessmen, living conditions, and effects of the Civil War.
Date: 1899
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Theodore Case, a native of Georgia moving to Kansas City in 1853. He was a physician, later involved in real estate, city promotion and government as a journalist, postmaster, builder, lobbyist, "chair of chemistry in the Kansas City Medical College," etc.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of Dr. Theodore Case (1832-1900), a physician and businessman, native to Georgia and arriving in Kansas City in 1857, serving in 1860-1861 as "editor of the Medical Review of Kansas City" and as a Union officer in the Civil War, later involved in various affairs, including real estate, teaching medicine and chemistry, writing and editing local scientific publications, aiding his brother Oliver Case in a wagon manufacturing business, and serving as city treasurer, postmaster, etc.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biographical sketch of Theodore S. Case, "the present Postmaster of Kansas City," born in Jackson, Butts County, Georgia, in 1832, the son of Ermine Case, Sr., and Mary A. Cowles Case, and brother of Oliver, George, and Ermine, Jr. Description of his career, starting as a physician in Ohio, moving to Kansas City in 1857, editing two newspapers in 1860, becoming a Union officer in the Civil War, entering real estate and construction with his brother Oliver, losing most of his money around 1870 due to an economic panic, drought, and grasshopper plague, being appointed city postmaster in 1873, and publishing the "Western Review of Science and Industry" journal and other scientific and quasi-scientific papers in Kansas City.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Theodore S. Case (1832-1900), Soldier, Scientist, and Physician
Date: 2008
Object Type: Biography

Title: The Wild and Wooly Town of Kansas
Description: Colorful tales of the "Old West" era of Kansas City, following Theodore Case's first days in the dangerous town of saloons, prostitutes, gunfights, and gambling.
Date: 1978-05-07
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Prominent Kansas Citians
Description: Composite view; left to right: Theodore S. Case, Bishop Edward R. Atwell, J.M. Greenwood, Edwin C. Meservey, Hiram M. Northrup, William A. Rule, Edward F. Sweeney, A.A. Tomlinson.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Mattie Lykins Scrapbook
Description: Clippings in Mrs. Johnston Lykins's scrapbook about the Baptist Pottawatomie Indian Mission on the Kansas River from 1851 to 1853, including information about the Widow's and Orphan's Home in 1874 and several photos taken by Dr. Theodore Case on his travels.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: Theodore Case
Description: Biography of Dr. Theodore Case, a physician arriving in Kansas City in 1853 and later helping commit the city to the Union in the Civil War. Description of his positions as state railroad commissioner, state university curator, postmaster, and construction business owner.
Object Type: Archival Material

Title: 5th Street
Description: Early view of Kansas City identified as 5th Street looking east from Wyandotte Street. Buildings built by Theodore Case.
Date: 1867
Object Type: Photograph

Title: The History of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Biographical sketch of Dr. Theodore Case, realtor, physician, and prominent promoter of Kansas City in the 1800s.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City's Hannibal Bridge: Western Town-Booming and Eastern Capital
Description: Description of the West Kansas Land Company in the context of the development of the Hannibal Bridge, involving the efforts of James Joy and Theodore Case.
Date: 1959-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Baptist Beginnings in Kansas City Were Small
Description: One paragraph about the joining of Theodore Case with the Baptist Church, mentioning his first wife as "the daughter of Dr. Lykins."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: K. C.: A History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and descriptions of Theodore Case in contexts of the Kansas City business directory, the Industrial Exposition, political reform, power elite, city water, and the Real Estate Board.
Date: 1978
Object Type: Book

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