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Title: Owner of Metcalf Bank Dies
Description: Short article, with photo, about the death of Barton P. Cohen, a business lawyer with Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin and a longtime owner of Metcalf Bank.
Date: 2006-12-12
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Photographs and Facts
Description: Photo and biographical article about Randolph Preston Rogers, an attorney "with the law firm of Warner, Dean, McLeod and Langworthy." Born in Arkansas in 1884 and coming to Kansas City in 1909 as a lawyer.
Date: 1916-02-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Her Father Tried the James Gang
Description: Article describing "C. C. (Neal) Chiles, a prosperous Independence banker" at the time of his death in 1920 "said to have owned more land than anyone in Jackson County." Description also of his son, "Judge William Hockaday Wallace [or William Wallace], the county attorney responsible for prosecuting surviving members of the Jesse James gang in the 1880s," and his granddaughter, Mary Chiles Wallace Hill, former resident of the "castle-like structure" at 3200 Norledge Avenue, adjacent to the Kansas City Museum.
Date: 1980
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Geroge Humphrey and Elmore Truitt
Description: Photos and biographical articles about George Humphrey, a Kansas City lawyer, and Elmore Truitt, a Kansas City realtor. Description of Humphrey as born in Lewis County, Missouri, and starting out as a teacher before becoming an attorney in 1894 and state senator in 1904, arriving in Kansas City in 1915 and residing at 3208 Olive Street. Description of Truitt as a realtor born in Pennsylvania and coming to Kansas City in 1886, in 1893 establishing "the E.S. Truitt Real Estate Co.," obtaining "the contract for the Westlake Construction Company for the building of the Muehlebach Hotel, one of his many transactions," and residing at 4320 Oak Street.
Date: 1916-05-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

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