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Title: Colonel Robert Hunt Biography
Description: Biographical sketch of Colonel Robert Hunt, mayor of Kansas City in 1873, born in Ireland in 1839 and coming to Kansas City in 1859, serving the Union in the Civil War.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biography of Joel H. Haden.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biography of Joseph Alexander, a lawyer in the 1850s and bank cashier in the 1860s in Saint Charles, Missouri.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biography of Isaac Abraham, a physician in Harrisonville, Missouri, in Cass County, starting "immediately after quitting military service" for the Union in 1865, originally from Pennsylvania.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biography of Joseph Alexander, a prominent farmer of Nodaway County near Maryville, Missouri, starting in the early 1840s after living "a short time" in Jackson County. Later appointed county judge and elected sheriff of Nodaway County during the Civil War.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biography of Thomas Akers (1828-1877), a government official with a "brief service in Congress" in 1854 and a nomination for governor of Missouri in the late 1850s, living mostly in Lexington, Missouri, starting out as a Methodist sermon writer and professor of mathematics at Masonic College.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biography of Captain Barton Able (1824-1877), a Missouri riverboat captain based in Saint Louis and involved in the growth of the city through transportation, including river commerce and railroad bridges, also a Union officer during the Civil War and "one of the founders of the Mississippi Valley Transportation company."
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

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