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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Biographical sketch of Mary Luann Jones Gant, "Missouri's first woman state senator" who was born in Kansas City in 1936. She started her career with the Missouri Department of Agriculture and became state representative in 1966 and state senator in 1972.
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1989
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Book
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Portrait and biographical description of Jessie Ann Benton Fremont (alternately spelled Jesse Fremont), or Jessie Fremont (1824-1902), a native of Virginia, the wife of John C. Fremont, and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Description of her life and career, growing up in Saint Louis and marrying Fremont in 1841, converting his western expedition notes into books in the 1840s, and becoming an editor and author, and after the couple's move to California in 1849 "maintaining an informal salon encouraging young writing talents such as Bret Harte," dying in Los Angeles.
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Date
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1989
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Object Type
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Book
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Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies
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Description
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Biographical sketches of Dr. Alice Berry Graham (or Alice Graham, a dentist) and her sister Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson (or Katharine Richardson, a physician), founders of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City in the late 1800s.
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Date
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1989
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Book
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Joan Crawford
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Biographical sketch of Joan Crawford (1906-1977), a movie actress starting in 1925 with silent pictures, growing up in Kansas City. Description of her life and career, moving to Kansas City in 1917 from Oklahoma, attending the Scarritt School and Saint Agnes school before working at and attending the Rockingham Academy in Kansas City and Stephens College in Columbia while developing as an actress and dancer. Description of her successful movie career through the 1930s and decline with family troubles documented in the book and movie, "Mommie Dearest."
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1989
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