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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of George Sidener, a Saint Louis lawyer born in Indiana in 1864.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Arthur Spencer, a lawyer in Joplin, Missouri and born in Indiana in 1868.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Henry Flower, president of the Fidelity Trust Company in Kansas City, born in Indiana in 1860, coming to Kansas City in 1885, and becoming a lawyer in 1885.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Orville Delbert Woodward, or Orville Woodward, a "[t]heatrical manager" of Kansas City. Born in Indiana in 1866 and coming to Kansas City in 1898 as "president of the Woodward & Burgess Amusement Company" with offices in the Willis Wood Theater and residence at 3324 Troost Avenue.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Jesse Williams Jennings, "manager for Jennings & Graham, Kansas City depository of the Western Methodist Book Concern" at 1121-1123 McGee Street. He was born in Indiana in 1852 and came to Kansas City in 1904, with residence at 815 Glen Airy Place.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Peter Ridenour, "president of the Ridenour-Baker Grocery Company, of Kansas City, Mo." Born in Indiana in 1831 and coming to Kansas City in 1878 with his business ("the largest wholesale house west of the Mississippi river"), residing at 318 East 9th Street.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Charles Jobes, a Kansas City banker starting out as a coal miner, railroad and levee worker, and civil engineer. Born in Indiana in 1853 and arriving in Kansas in 1887 as a banker, then coming to Kansas City as president of the American National Bank of Kansas City, with residence at 3236 Paseo Boulevard.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Book of Missourians
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Milton Gibbs, manager of the Kansas City branch store of D. M. Osborn & Company, an agricultural implement business. He was born in Wisconsin in 1864 and came to Kansas City in 1903, residing at 909 Indiana Avenue.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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John Felt, Architect
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Description
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Biographical sketch of John Felt, president of the J. H. Felt & Company, architects, of Saint Joseph, Missouri. Felt was born in Indiana in 1867 and starting work as an architect in his hometown before moving to St. Joseph in 1898.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The Wyandot Indians
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Description
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Article about the history of the Wyandotte Indians since colonial times, originally a tribe of the Iroquois group migrating from Labrador to the Great Lakes by the 1700s. Later forced to the Great Plains from Ohio in the early 1800s, occupying part of Kansas Territory adjacent to the Shawnee Indians' land there in the 1840s, and becoming gradually assimilated racially and culturally into the United States thereafter.
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Date
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1906
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
