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Title
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The Founding of Westport, Mo.: Charles Spalding, Westport and Kansas City's First Town Booster
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Charles Carroll Spalding, or Charles Spalding (1826-1876 ca.), perhaps the first civic booster or promoter for Kansas City and Westport. Native of Vermont coming to Kansas City about the mid-1850s as city engineer (appointed in 1855 and producing a map of Westport there) and newspaper writer (hired in 1856 on the Kansas City Enterprise by editor Robert Van Horn). Author of the 1858 book (one of the first published in Kansas City) "Annals of the City of Kansas" and city clerk in 1860 before returning to Vermont and serving the Union in the Civil War.
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Date
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1978-02
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
