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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of Herbert Woolf, president of the Woolf Brothers clothing store chain in Kansas City and a race horse breeder and owner of "Lawrin, winner of the 1938 Kentucky Derby" with rider Eddie Arcaro. Born in Kansas City in 1880 at 913 Locust Street and taking over his father's clothing store at 11th and Walnut Streets in 1913 before going on to become a world-class race horse breeder at his 200-acre Woolford farm at 82nd and Mission Roads in Johnson County, Kansas.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Woolford Ranch, Burial Place of Derby Winner, Vanishing. ..
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Description
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File containing an article with photos, illustrations, and description of Herbert Woolf (1884-1960), president of the Woolf Brothers Company of clothing stores in Kansas City, and owner since 1925 "of the Woolford farm, renowned in the 1930's and 1940's as one of the top racing stables in the U. S. and farmed as the breeding ground of Johnson County's own Kentucky Derby winner," Lawrin (raced by Eddie Arcaro and dying in 1955, the same year of the ranch's sale to the J. C. Nichols Company). Ranch land surrounding 81st and Mission Roads later developed by into the Corinth subdivisions.
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Date
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1977-06-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Kansas City and Its One Hundred Foremost Men
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Description
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Photo and bio of Herbert Morris Woolf, or Herbert Woolf, "President of the firm of Woolf Brothers, Inc.," clothiers of Kansas City. Born in Kansas City in 1880 and taking over his father's clothing store in 1911 and becoming a prominent horse breeder, "President of the Midland Theatre Company," and "director of the Kansas City Gas Company" with "a surburan [sic] farm at [85th Street] and Mission Road."
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Date
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1925
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Object Type
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Book
