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Title
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Benjamin Holladay
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Description
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Information on Benjamin Holladay (1819-1887), a pioneer in Western transportation called "the Stage Coach King," born in Kentucky and starting in the riverboat and stagecoach businesses as a youth (with his father, a military colleague of George Washington). He moved to Liberty in 1837 and to Weston, Missouri, in 1838, becoming a Western freighter. Photos, illustrations, and description of his later career, buying out Russell, Majors & Waddell in 1862 as "Missouri's first millionaire," founding the Weston Distillery (later becoming McCormick's Distillery in Weston) and controlling later Western transportation through railroads, Pacific Ocean steamboats, etc.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Mc Cormick Distillery
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and information on the McCormick Distillery, first established by Ben Holladay in Weston, Missouri, in 1856 and later purchased by the McCormick family. Their natural springs of limestone water first discovered by the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Ben Holladay: His Career, His Achievements and His Misfortunes
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Description
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Biographical article about Ben Holladay, a prominent Western freighter who was born in Kentucky about 1821 and came to Missouri, making a fortune in trade with the Utah Territory and with the Pony Express out of Weston and Saint Joseph. He engaged in the shipping industry in California before losing most of his fortune by the age of 55 in 1876.
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Date
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1876-06-30
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Gather Lore for Weston Museum
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Description
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Photo and article about the planned local history museum of Weston, Missouri in Platte County, with information about its history and collected antiques and other artifacts dealing with the border warfare period, Buffalo Bill Cody and his uncle, and "Maj. Ben Holladay's International house," etc.
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Date
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1959-07-15
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Ben Holladay
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Description
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about Ben Holladay (1819-1887), a prominent Western freighter in Weston, Missouri. He was born in Kentucky and moved to Platte County, Missouri, in 1838, and to Saint Joseph, Missouri, in 1858, "buil[ding] the Pike's Peak stables, where two years later the speedy horses for the Pony Express were to be sheltered." Description of his later career, "becoming 'Missouri's first Millionaire,['] for his stagecoach and freighting business with Utah and Salt Lake City."
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Bit of Weston, Missouri, History
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Description
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Illustrations (of the town itself and citizens John Woods, William Osborne, and Ben Holladay) and first in a series of articles about the history of the Platte County town of Weston, Missouri on the Missouri River.
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Date
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1952-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Overland Mail Carriers
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Description
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Chapters of the book about the overland mail services from Saint Joseph to the Far West in the late 1850s to early 1860s, carried out by the Pony Express of Russell, Majors & Waddell, and by the Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Company of Ben Holladay and Wells Fargo. Copies of their ads and descriptions of the men running the businesses, especially Alexander Majors (1814-1900), Ben Holladay (1819-1887), and their various horse riders and stagecoaches.
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Date
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1905-06-22
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The New Encyclopedia of the American West
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Description
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Photo and entry about Benjamin Holladay, or Ben Holladay (1819-1887) and his stagecoach lines operating as western transportation out of Weston, Missouri and other points west starting in the 1840s.
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Date
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1998
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Object Type
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Book
