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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Description
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Biography of Edgar Snow (1905-1972), a journalist, diplomat, and author of books and articles about China, starting in the late 1920s, born and raised in Kansas City.
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Date
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1999
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Book
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Short biography written by Alan R. Havig of both Goodman Ace and his wife Jane, he a noted writer and both radio personalities who were born in Kansas City. Includes citations.
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Date
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1999
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Book
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Title
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Dictionary of American Biography
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Henry Finck (1854-1926), "author and music critic" and "one of the most versatile and gifted members of his profession," born in Bethel, Missouri. Description of his career, starting with work for national magazines and newspapers in the 1870s and becoming "music critic for the 'Nation'" magazine from 1881 to 1924, also writing 17 books "on humorous, musical, or seriously philosophical topics."
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1958
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Dictionary of American Biography
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Description
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Biographical sketch of William Torrey Harris, or William Harris (1835-1909), a noted American philosopher and educator native to Connecticut and moving to Saint Louis in 1857. Description of his life and career, becoming superintendent of schools in Saint Louis in 1868 and in 1867 founding the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy," publishing the debuts of American philosophers Charles Peirce and John Dewey, et al., and the first English translations of Fichte and Schelling, et al. Description of his later career, moving to Massachusetts in 1880 "to assist in the establishment of the Concord School of Philosophy."
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1932
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Biography of Sara Teasdale (1884-1933), a poet born in Saint Louis, Missouri, one of the nation's most prominent female poets from the 1900s to the 1930s.
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Date
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1999
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Book
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Title
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Dictionary of Missouri Biography
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Short biography of Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) written by Arthur F. McClure and Vivian Richardson. Carnegie, from Maryville, Missouri, authored the self-help book "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Article includes citations.
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1999
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Clarence Decker (1904-1969), "educator" and former president of the University of Kansas City, native of Iowa, and during his college presidency also writing and co-writing books about international relations and western culture.
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Date
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1960
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Object Type
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Book
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Two Kansas City Women Write Novelized Biography of Bridger
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Illustration and book review of "Jim Bridger, King of Scouts" by Clide Ann Hollmann (a native Missourian "connected with the information department of General hospital" in Kansas City) and Myrtes-Marie Plummer (a native Kansas Citian and "for sixteen years a teacher of creative writing").
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1954-05-22
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Newspaper Article
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