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Title
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Martin Rice
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Description
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Illustrations and information on Martin Rice (1814-1903), "pioneer and writer" of eastern Jackson County history called the "Bard of Lone Jack."
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Has Kept Faith: Remarkable Record of Martin Rice, of Lone Jack
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Description
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Portrait and biographical article about Martin Rice, "the oldest resident of the village of Lone Jack, in the southwestern part of Jackson county." Born in Tennessee in 1814 and brought to Jackson County in 1833 by his family, becoming the "only Republican in his voting precinct" and "count[ing] the ballots as judge or clerk" for decades of elections there.
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Date
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1898-10-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Traveler of 1880 in Missouri Found It Vastly Changed from 1836
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Description
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File containing a biographical article with illustration and information on changes in Missouri observed by Jackson County pioneer Martin Rice (1814-1903). Description of his arrival at Independence and Westport in 1836 and by 1880 witnessing the growth of farms, transportation, and industry as the "bard of Lone Jack," Missouri.
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Date
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1952-05-05
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Martin Rice
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Description
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Folder includes a hand copied poem entitled "The Muse of History" supposedly originally written by Martin Rice. It was to have been included as an introduction in a Jackson County, Missouri, history book, but was never put in the publication. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
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Object Type
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Archival Material
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Title
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Notes on the Pioneer School of Kansas City, Part One
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Description
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Footnote mentioning Martin Rice as "one of the County's most noted pioneers" and successor of Reverend Ziba Peterson ("another Mormon preacher" and school founder) as teacher at "a school near the present site of Lone Jack" in the early 1830s.
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Date
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1922-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Martin Rice Rocker to Museum
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Description
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Brief article about the "hickory rocker" "given to the Historical Society by Fabius Butler of Lone Jack, great-grandson of Martin Rice known as the 'sage of Lone Jack.'"
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Date
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1971
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Personal Recollections of Sage of Lone Jack
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Description
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Portrait and biographical article about Martin Rice (1814-1903), "the oldest living pioneer of Jackson County" just before his death in 1903, known as the "pioneer settler of Lone Jack, Mo." Native of Tennessee moving to Lone Jack, Missouri in 1833 and becoming a writer of poetry and books about western Missouri history.
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Date
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1966
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Lone Jack Baptist Church
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Description
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File containing a paper on the history of the Lone Jack Baptist Church, read in 1880 by Martin Rice (a pioneer and church member in Lone Jack, Missouri). Town of Lone Jack originally established in 1832 as Basin Knob, Missouri.
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Date
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1905-05-17
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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What I Saw of Order No. 11
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Description
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Article with detailed reminiscences of Martin Rice, a Jackson County resident and vocal opponent of Order Number 11 during its execution in 1863. Description of many of the arrests and murders of Missouri residents by Union soldiers.
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Date
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1967-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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History of the Blue River Baptist Association of Missouri
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Description
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Section of the book written by Lone Jack pioneer Martin Rice) on the history of the Blue River Baptist Association from 1874 to 1886, organized in 1834 in Lafayette County, Missouri. Rice also author of 1882's "Rural Rhymes, and Talks and Tales of Olden Times" about pioneer Jackson County, etc.
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Date
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1890
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Object Type
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Book
