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Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of Felix La Force, "engaged in the brokerage business in Kansas City," born in Boone County, Missouri, in 1847 and coming here in 1881 "as a member of the [dry goods] firm of Grimes, Woods, La Force & Company."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of William La Fayette Hutchison, "head of the Kansas City Electrical Construction Company," born "near Leeds in Jackson county," Missouri, and joining his company in 1990 as an electrical engineer.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Twenty-first Annual Report of the Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri for the Year Ending June 30th, 1902
Description: Report for the year ending June 30, 1902, on each department of the library system and their operations, such as circulation, acquisitions, etc.
Date: 1902-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Origin of County Names
Description: Article about the origins of names of Missouri counties, mostly taken from names of government officials dealing with state history such as governors, presidents, senators, etc., and river names with some others taken from Indian and French words.
Date: 1901-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of George Pugh (1847-1904), an iron foundry worker and founder and president of "the Pugh Foundry Company" at "Nos. 9 to 21 West Levee." Native of England emigrating to Kansas City in 1887 and managing his factory for manufacturing window castings and building weights, etc.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of W. E. Ryder, "vice president and general manager of the Midland Asbestos Manufacturing Company." Born in Ohio in 1867 and coming to Kansas City in 1900 as organizer of the company at 3rd and Highland Streets, manufacturing "asbestos materials for all building purposes, insulating materials, pipe coverings, boiler coverings, etc."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Biographical sketch of L. B. Price, a traveling sales executive and former farmer. Born in Pennsylvania in 1856 and coming to Kansas City in 1893 as operator of "the L. B. Price Mercantile Company," handling "lace curtains, rugs, silverware, counterpanes, etc."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Samuel Underwood
Description: Biographical sketch of Samuel Underwood, "a brick contractor and builder." Born in Saint Louis in 1904 as a son of Drury Underwood (a fellow building contractor) and raised in Kansas City before erecting such structures as "Walker's Laundry, Heim's Brewery. ..the Shunhaefen plant," and "the high school at Independence," etc.
Date: 1905-03-22
Object Type: Book

Title: Isaac Dumm
Description: Biographical sketch of Isaac Dumm, "president of the Reliance Investment Company, conducting a general investment business in stocks, bonds, etc." He was born in Iowa in 1876 and arrived in Kansas City in 1899 as a journalist with the Kansas City Times, becoming its advertising manager before moving to the Kansas City World then "establishing the I. W. Dumm Publishing Company" in 1904, merging "into the Kansas City Post Newspaper Company on the 1st of January, 1906."
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of Dr. Theodore Case (1832-1900), a physician and businessman, native to Georgia and arriving in Kansas City in 1857, serving in 1860-1861 as "editor of the Medical Review of Kansas City" and as a Union officer in the Civil War, later involved in various affairs, including real estate, teaching medicine and chemistry, writing and editing local scientific publications, aiding his brother Oliver Case in a wagon manufacturing business, and serving as city treasurer, postmaster, etc.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Leo Leslie
Description: Biographical sketch of Leo Leslie, "one of the foremost builders and owners of handsome residences and fine business property in Kansas City," born in Massachusetts in 1856 and coming to Kansas City in 1879 as a dry goods merchant "under the firm name of L. N. Leslie & Company at No. 726 North Main street," with residence at 4057 Warwick Boulevard. Description of his later career, selling the firm to W. T. Matthews in 1886 and organizing the Suffolk Investment Company real estate development business, building the "handsome theatre, 'The Sam S. Shubert,' on [10th] street, between Baltimore avenue and Wyandotte street" in 1906, as well as several apartment houses and residences, etc. in Downtown and Midtown.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 1]
Description: Volume one of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 2]
Description: Volume two of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri Its History and Its People, 1808-1908. [Volume 3]
Description: Volume three of Carrie Westlake Whitney's early history of Kansas City, Missouri.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

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