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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Portrait and biographical sketch of Sarah Rickard Barret, or Sarah Barret, a woman "almost" marrying Abraham Lincoln in her youth before "[s]ettling in Kansas City in a cottage at 2011 Indiana Avenue."
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1992
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Book
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Photo and bio of Mary Harmon Weeks, or Mary Weeks (1851-1940), an "author as well as an educator" in child welfare, and wife of electrical engineer Edwin Ruthven Weeks. Native of Ohio raised in Kansas City and becoming one of the first two teachers at Central High School in 1867 with students such as Burris Jenkins, Fred Wolferman, and Frank Wornall. Organizer of "the first PTA [parent-teacher association] in Missouri," namesake of the "Mary Harmon Weeks School at 4201 Indiana" Avenue, and resident of 3408 Harrison Street.
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Date
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1992
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Book
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Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
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Photo and bio of Mary Tiera Farrow, or Mary Farrow (1880-1971), "the dean of women lawyers in Kansas City" and author of the book "Lawyer in Petticoats." Description of her life and career as a native of Indiana coming to Kansas City about 1898 as an office worker before becoming a lawyer with offices in the New York Life Building and city treasurer of Kansas City, Kansas, in 1907. First president of the Women's Bar Association of Kansas City in 1917 and co-founder of "a women's school of law in 1925" in Kansas City with Louise Byers.
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Date
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1992
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Book