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Renaming Anderson Bridge
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Both local historian and writer Dory DeAngelo and photographer David Remley are heading an effort to rename the Anderson Bridge in the Northeast area to the Graham-Richardson Memorial Bridge. This would honor sisters, dentist Dr. Alice Berry Graham and physician Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson who founded Children's Mercy Hospital and who lived in the Northeast area.
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2004-09-01
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Bridge Named For Hospital Founders
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Short notice indicating that the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners had voted to name a bridge over Anderson Avenue in the Northeast area after Katharine Berry Richardson and Alice Berry Graham. The bridge is on Gladstone Boulevard and was recently rebuilt. The two ladies who were sisters founded Children's Mercy Hospital and were thought to have used this bridge daily.
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2004-12-02
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Founder of Mercy Dead: A Long Illness Fatal to Dr. Alice Graham, Lover of Children
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Portrait and obituary for Dr. Alice Berry Graham, or Alice Graham, co-founder of Mercy Hospital," dying "at the home of her sister, Dr. Catherine Berry Richardson, 121 Clinton Place," at the age of 63. Description of her life and career, starting the hospital later called Children's Mercy Hospital about 1898 in Kansas City for crippled children at 414 Highland Avenue, starting as a dentist in Philadelphia.
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1913-05-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
