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Title
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John F. Richards: Son-in-Law of Zenas Leonard
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Description
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History of the Richards & Conover hardware distribution and sales company starting in Leavenworth and moving to Kansas City in 1875, with illustrations and photo and description of John Richards, the company's founder, dying in 1922. Mention of Colonel John Conover as the company's first salesman later becoming a partner.
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Date
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1969-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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John F. Richards
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Description
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Portrait view of John Richards, identified as “Kansas City Pioneers†with name written on back of photograph.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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SC193 Richards and Conover Hardware Company Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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The Richards and Conover Hardware Company was started in 1857 by John Francisco Richards and continued to operate as a family-owned business until it closed in 1999. This collection, donated by a former president of the company and descendant of John F. Richards, consists of the business records created and maintained by the company’s owners and employees.
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Date
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1854/1999
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Who's Who in Kansas City
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Description
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Portraits and biographical article about John Richards, "president [of the] Richards & Conover Hardware Company." Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Sibley, Missouri in 1849 before becoming a western trader to the Rocky Mountains in 1852 and coming to Kansas City in 1875.
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Date
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1921-07-24
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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John Richards, Harware Store Merchant
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Description
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Photo and bio of John Richards, early "hardware merchant" in Kansas City. Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Missouri in the early 1850s as a hardware store employee (at Sibley and Saint Louis) before starting his own hardware company in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1857 and moving it to Kansas City in 1875 at 5th and Delaware Streets.
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Date
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1901
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Richards Field, First Kansas City Commercial Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of the first Richards Field, established in 1922 as Kansas City's first commercial airport by Major Howard Wehrle, Fred Harvey, Simpson Yeomans, Roger Crittenden, and Robert Lester, and named for Lieutenant John Richards II, a fellow Kansas Citian pilot killed in World War I. Description of the airport's becoming obsolete for "modern" airplanes of the late 1920s and being replaced by an airport in 1927 closer to downtown Kansas City, "first known as New Richards Field and then Municipal Airport," and later as Downtown Airport.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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J. F. Richards, Self-Made: Richards-Conover Founder, Orphan at 12
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about John Francisco Richards, or John Richards (1834-1922), founder and president of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company. Native of Virginia raised in Saint Louis and visiting Jackson County in the early 1850s before starting his own hardware business in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1857 and moving it to Kansas City in 1875 (at 5th and Delaware Streets) and later serving as a judge in Jackson County.
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Date
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1970
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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John Francisco Richards
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Description
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Description of the early history of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company, established in Leavenworth before the Civil War and in Kansas City by 1875 at 424 Delaware Street. Company founded by John Francisco Richards as J. F. Richards and Company and joined by Colonel John Conover in 1866.
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Date
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1923-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
