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Title
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Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
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Description
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Description of Belton, Missouri, banker Josiah Newton Hargis, or Josiah Hargis (1820-1881), his family, and their home, the Hargis House, the "oldest house in the town of Lee's Summit, Missouri," occupied by them from 1859 to 1869 except from 1863 to 1865 during Order Number 11.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Bridges Cemetery
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Description
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Description of location and persons interred at the Bridges Cemetery in the Sni-a-Bar Township of Jackson County, Missouri. Research gathered in 1979 by Ms. Karol Witthar of Blue Springs Historical Society indicates the Bridges Cemetery had been destroyed in 1959-1960. The disposition of the bodies and stones were unknown. Located at Liggett Road, a quarter mile west of Highway 7, it was a cornfield in 1979.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
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Description
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History of the Highland Academy in Hickman Mills, Missouri, organized in 1845 by Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Johnson from Virginia. Description of the school operation by Mrs. Johnson after Mr. Johnson's death, with the help of slaves, prior to its burning at the beginning of the Civil War.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Dr. Johnston Lykins
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Dr. Johnston Lykins (1800-1876), the first legal mayor of Kansas City, first postmaster of Westport (out of the Shawnee Mission), and first editor and publisher of a newspaper entirely in Indian language. Description of his life and career as a native of Virginia and Baptist missionary coming to Kansas City about 1830, "edit[ing] the 'Siwinowe Kesibwi' (Shawnee Sun), the first newspaper to be published exclusively in an Indian dialect." Also an intermittent doctor, real estate developer starting in 1856 with the Lykins Addition, and president of Mechanics Bank in 1859 after his mayorship.
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Date
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1905-04-17
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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In the Baggage Coach Ahead
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Description
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Description of a how the poem and song came to be written by Gussie L. Davis inspired by a remark made by 19th- century physician, Dr. James Watson.
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Date
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1905-04-17
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
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Description
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One page history of Highland Academy in Hickman Mills, Jackson County, Missouri, organized in 1845 by Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Johnson. Description of its success as a school with several slave workers until the Civil War.
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Date
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1934
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Object Type
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Book