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Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Pictorial and Biographical
Description: Photo and bio of Colonel John Conover, "of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company of Kansas City, who have the largest wholesale trade in that line west of St. Louis," describing his life and career. He was born in New Jersey in 1835, moved to Iowa and Kansas until after the Civil War, moved to Kansas City in 1875 with the D. A. McKnight hardware store, turning it into his own company in 1882.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of Colonel John Conover, "of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company of Kansas City, who have the largest wholesale trade in that line west of St. Louis," born in New Jersey in 1835 and entering the hardware business about 1851, serving the Union in the Civil War, and settling in Kansas City in 1875.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Colonel John Conover, a Union officer in Kansas during the Civil War and originally from New Jersey. He became co-head of Richards & Conover Hardware Company in Leavenworth, Kansas, moving to Kansas City in 1875.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: John F. Richards: Son-in-Law of Zenas Leonard
Description: History of the Richards & Conover hardware distribution and sales company starting in Leavenworth and moving to Kansas City in 1875, with illustrations and photo and description of John Richards, the company's founder, dying in 1922. Mention of Colonel John Conover as the company's first salesman later becoming a partner.
Date: 1969-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Obituary for Mrs. Hugh Carnes Smith
Description: Obituary for Mrs. Hugh Carnes Smith, or Mrs. Hugh Smith, the daughter of Colonel John Conover of the Richards and Conover Hardware Company, with information about other descendants of him.
Date: 1952-11-02
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: SC193 Richards and Conover Hardware Company Collection Finding Aid
Description: The Richards and Conover Hardware Company was started in 1857 by John Francisco Richards and continued to operate as a family-owned business until it closed in 1999. This collection, donated by a former president of the company and descendant of John F. Richards, consists of the business records created and maintained by the company’s owners and employees.
Date: 1854/1999
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: John Francisco Richards
Description: Description of the early history of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company, established in Leavenworth before the Civil War and in Kansas City by 1875 at 424 Delaware Street. Company founded by John Francisco Richards as J. F. Richards and Company and joined by Colonel John Conover in 1866.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Colonel John Conover, 1835-1914
Description: Photo and biographical article about Colonel John Conover (1835-1914), president of the Missouri Valley Historical Society and co-executive with Colonel John F. Richards of the Richards & Conover Hardware Company, originally in Leavenworth and moving to Kansas City, with Conover joining the company in 1866.
Date: 1923-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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