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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of William Kemp, mayor of Kansas City and a former teacher and school superintendent, growing up in La Monte, Missouri, and Warrensburg, Missouri. Also involved in the clean-up campaign in Kansas City politics in the 1930s as "an appellate judge" and "city counselor."
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Date
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1952
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Book
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Leaders in Our Town
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Photo and bio of Nathan Thomas Veatch, or Tom Veatch, partner in the engineering firm of Black & Veatch (his partner E. B. Black dying in 1949) with offices on the Country Club Plaza. Born in Illinois in 1886 and coming to Kansas City in the 1910s as a civil engineer partnering with Black and building military camps for World War II, etc.
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Date
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1952
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Book
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Henry Massman
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Description
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Photo and bio of Henry Massman, president of the Massman Construction Company and a native of Quincy, Illinois, coming to Kansas City as an infant with his father, a bricklayer. Description of his career, starting as a bricklayer himself for Arthur Stilwell's railroad and then working on Missouri River channel projects (levees, bridges, etc.) and building his own "house in the Roanoke district."
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Date
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1905-05-05
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Book
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Leaders in Our Town
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Photo and bio of Judge Albert Reeves, chief judge of the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City. Born near Steelville, Missouri in 1873 and coming to Kansas City in 1913 as a lawyer before being appointed federal judge in 1923 for western Missouri and becoming involved in the various court cases against the local Pendergast machine, etc.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of Ernest Howard, co-founder and executive of the engineering firm of Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff. Description of his life, born in Toronto in 1880 and coming to Kansas City in the early 1900s as a civil engineer, overseeing the construction of the Intercity Viaduct and numerous bridges around the United States and Canada, etc., with residence at 5708 State Line Road.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Louis Rothschild
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Description
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Photo and bio of Louis Rothschild, president of the Rothschild's clothing store at 10th and Main Streets and "chairman of the city plan commission." Born in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1900 and brought to Kansas City in 1901 with his parents and convincing his former Yale University schoolmate Arthur Mag to join him in Kansas City about 1909, with residence at 610 West Meyer Boulevard. Discussion of urban planning issues affecting Downtown and Kansas City, North in Clay County, etc.
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Date
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1905-05-05
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Object Type
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Book
