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Title
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Charles Spalding--Westport and Kansas City Town Booster
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Description
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File containing a photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876), a pioneer promoter and writer of Kansas City. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City in 1855 as city engineer (producing a famous map of Westport that year) and journalist for the Kansas City Enterprise, writing one of the city's first books in 1858, becoming city clerk in 1860, and dying partly from Civil War wounds.
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Date
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1996-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
