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Title
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Daniel Ahern
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Description
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Photo and biography of Daniel Ahern, "the efficient chief of police" and native of Ireland born in 1855, entering the Kansas City police force in 1881.
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Colonel J. L. Abernathy
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Description
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Biography of Colonel J. L. Abernathy (1833-1902), moving to Kansas City in 1870 after establishing a furniture store in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1855, and before that a dry goods store in Rushville, Indiana.
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Date
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1908
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Book Section
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Biography of James Adkins (1834-1897), a bank employee and insurance salesman in Kansas City starting in 1880, previously working in the drugstore and wool manufacturing businesses in Liberty, Missouri, starting in 1855, also a prominent member of the Baptist and Odd Fellow organizations of the area.
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Description
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Photo and biography of William Alexander, a Kansas City resident starting in 1873 and becoming a worker on and inventor of mechanical devices, including watches and especially "an electric call bell, which has been installed in many railway and telegraph officess, so that any operator, by pressing certain keys, may call any other operator on the line."
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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John Adams
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Description
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Photo and biography of John Adams, the agent "for the Schoenhofen Brewing Company at Kansas City," originally from Ireland, starting in the brewing business in Kansas City in 1878 and a member of several social clubs in the city, including "the Pendergast Hunting Club."
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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William Ahern
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Description
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Biography of Irish construction contractor William Ahern, of William J. Ahern & Son, with a photo of his son and business partner, John J. Ahern. Description of his various building projects, including part of the Washington Monument and New York's Grand Central Station before coming to Kansas City, with works here including "the Dwight, the Home Telephone, the Bailey building and the Gates building, while a large number of residences also stand as monuments to his skill and enterprise."
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Date
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1908
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Object Type
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Book
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