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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of William Ashley Rule, or William Rule, cashier at the National Bank of Commerce formerly at 6th and Delaware Streets. Born in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1859 and coming to Kansas City in 1887 before becming "president of the Kansas City Horse Show Association."
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of James Franklin Spalding, or James Spalding, co-founder with his father E. H. Spalding of "Spalding's Commercial College, now one of the largest institutions of the kind in the West." Born in Michigan in 1835 and coming to Kansas City in 1865 (the same year of the school's establishment) and "author of several works on book-keeping."
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Date
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1902
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Photo and bio of George Madison Shelley, or George Shelley, a wholesale dry goods merchant and former mayor of Kansas City. Born in Kentucky in 1850 and coming here in 1870 as a grocer before becoming president of the City Council and the Board of Public Works.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of Walton Holmes, former president of the Kansas City and Westport Horse Railway Company and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, born in Independence, Missouri, in 1861 as a son of Nehemiah Holmes.
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Date
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1902
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of William Edgar Benson, or William Benson, "secretary of the Board of Education," arriving in Kansas City in 1869 and working as a clerk in the postal, insurance, and real estate businesses until appointment as city clerk in 1877 and then secretary of the Board of Education.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of Horace Havelock Anderson, or Horace Anderson, "secretary and manager" of the Kansas City Transfer Company" starting in 1900, after starting work in Kansas City in 1887 with the Barber Asphalt Company and the Peet Brothers.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City
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Description
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Photo and bio of William Blood, a hotelier arriving in Kansas City from New York in 1884, becoming the manager of the Midland Hotel and Washington Hotel after working "as collector on Santa Fe trains to the employ of Fred Harvey" and managing other hotels in the Midwest and Kansas City, including the Brunswick Hotel, Henrietta Hotel, Auditorium Hotel, and the Richelieu Hotel.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of George Kessler, planner of "Kansas City's magnificent park and boulevard system, having been engineer of the board since its inception in 1892." Description of his life and career, born in Germany in 1862 and emigrating to Kansas City in 1882, becoming "superintendent of parks for the Frisco System" and "landscape engineer of the World's Fair in St. Louis, in charge of the work."
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years
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Description
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Chapter of the book about the early Kansas City journalism career of the author, working as city editor of the Kansas City World and joke and comic strip writer for national magazines, rubbing elbows with William Randolph Hearst and Arthur Brisbane.
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Date
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1947
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Book
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Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
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Description
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Photo and bio of Lee Haney, "press agent of the Orpheum Theater" and a former newspaper journalist and actor, born in Carroll County, Missouri, in 1869, traveling around the company and becoming a hotel clerk in Kansas before coming to Kansas City in 1892, working at the Midland Hotel, the Kansas City World, and the Kansas City Journal.
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Date
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1902
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Object Type
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Book
