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Title
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William B. Strang, Jr.
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Description
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Photo and bio of William B. Strang, Jr., or William Strang, "dreamer, visionary, inventor, real estate and community developer, prometer, and entrepreneur-on-a-shoe string" coming to Kansas City from New York City around the turn of the 19th century. Description of his transportation career, establishing the Strang Line or the Missouri and Kansas Interurban Railway from Kansas City, Missouri, to Olathe, Kansas, and points in-between (ending in 1940 as obsolete because of automobile proliferation), leading to the development of Overland Park, Kansas, and establishing Strang Aviation Park there in 1909.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section