Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
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Biographical sketch of James Slavens (1838-1905), a meat packing pioneer and former mayor, city treasurer of Kansas City. Native of Indiana coming here in 1866 as a lawyer and Union Civil War veteran with residence at 3016 Oak Street.
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Creator: Whitney, Carrie Westlake
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1908
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Pages 128-129: ". ..[I]n the spring of 1868 he [Slavens] formed a partnership with E. W. Pattison and William Epperson for the purpose of engaging in the beef and pork packing business. They built a large stone house which is still standing in West Kansas City [the West Bottoms] and in the fall of that year they packed forty-five hundred head of cattle, which was the beginning of the large beef packing business for which Kansas City has become celebrated. The following year Mr. Slavens. ..built a large brick packing-house, carrying on the business for ten years."
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q977.8411 W61
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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