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Title
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Mize Peters Was Descendant of Pioneer Families
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Description
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Biographical article about Mize Peters, "a charter member of the Jackson County Historical Society," a "druggist on the Independence Square for 25 years," and representative of "the fourth generation of the pioneer Daniel and Mize families in Jackson County," dying in 1980 at the age of 94. Description of his grandfather Roderick Mize (Roderick S. Mize), a native of Kentucky moving to Independence in 1850 as a ferry boat pilot and warehouse operator. Description also of Peters's other ancestor, Roderick Daniel Mize, or Roderick Mize, a previous druggist on Independence Square (born in Liberty during the Civil War) going on "to become judge of the eastern district of the old Jackson County Court" and namesake of the "R. D. Mize Road which runs from Independence to the eastern boundary of the county."
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Colorful Sheriff Lecture Subject
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Description
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Photo (of Gilbert) and article about the lecture by "historical researcher and writer Bil Gilbert" about Joseph Reddeford Walker, or Joseph Walker (1798-1876), "Jackson County's first sheriff and a mountain man discovering the Yosemite Valley in California.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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A Native Son Returns: Charles S. Thomas' Birthplace Marked
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Charles Thomas, former Secretary of the Navy from 1954 to 1957, and the marker on his birthplace home in Independence, Missouri (born there in 1897).
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Volunteers 'Bring History to Life'
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Description
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Article about the re-enactment of the Battle of Lone Jack by the acting group known as the Lone Jack Volunteers.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Her Father Tried the James Gang
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Description
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Article describing "C. C. (Neal) Chiles, a prosperous Independence banker" at the time of his death in 1920 "said to have owned more land than anyone in Jackson County." Description also of his son, "Judge William Hockaday Wallace [or William Wallace], the county attorney responsible for prosecuting surviving members of the Jesse James gang in the 1880s," and his granddaughter, Mary Chiles Wallace Hill, former resident of the "castle-like structure" at 3200 Norledge Avenue, adjacent to the Kansas City Museum.
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Society's Summer Picnic July 27 at Historic Alexander Majors Home
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Description
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Description of the home and its history starting before the Civil War, with a mention of its being "the assembly point for much of the early day freight by the famous firm of Russell, Majors and Waddell."
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Date
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1980
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
