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People Who Made a Difference
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Description
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Photos and biographical descriptions of "20 people who we believe had the greatest lasting impact on Kansas City and helped to define our city today": (1) Berenice Chouteau, (2) Father Bernard Donnelly, (3) Sarah Chandler Coates, or Sarah Coates, (4) George Kessler, (5-6) Ella and Jacob Loose, (7) William Rockhill Nelson, (8) William Volker, (9) Tom Pendergast, (10) J. C. Nichols, (11) Harry Truman, (12) Chester Arthur Franklin, or Chester Franklin, (13) Bennie Moten, (14) Lucile Bluford, (15) Joyce Hall, (16) Ilus Davis, (17) Bruce Waltkins, (18) Ewing Kauffman, (19) Dr. Patricia McIlrath, and (20) Buck O'Neil.
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2000-05
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Magazine Article
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Mary Rockwell Hook
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Portrait, photos, and article about Mary Rockwell Hook (1877-1978), "one of Kansas City, Missouri's most important early woman architects," designing mostly houses in Kansas City and across the South. Description of her life and career. She designed structures in Kansas City suburbs starting in 1929, including a house in Raytown and the Mission Hills residence of Ruth White Lowry, the site of Ernest Hemingway's partial writing of "A Farewell to Arms."
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1993
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Magazine Article
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