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Title
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The Parsonage Parlor: Lexington's Waddell House Was Bought by a Pony Express Founder
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Description
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Photos and description of the "parsonage," now known as the Waddell House, built in 1840. William Bradford (W. B.) Waddell, a businessman in Lexington, Missouri, joined with William H. Russell and Alexander Majors to create the Pony Express. Waddell acquired the parsonage of the First Baptist Church for his son Robert and his bride Emma Clement Waddell. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, and Katherine Bradford Van Amburg, a descendant of Waddell, lives in the home.
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Date
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2008-08
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Pony Express
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Description
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Description of the overland journey of the horse-riding mail carriers of the Pony Express, organized by William Russell of the freighting firm of Russell, Majors & Waddell, from Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from the late 1850s to the early 1860s.
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Date
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1997
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Object Type
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Book Section