The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
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Biographical sketch of Theodore S. Case, "the present Postmaster of Kansas City," born in Jackson, Butts County, Georgia, in 1832, the son of Ermine Case, Sr., and Mary A. Cowles Case, and brother of Oliver, George, and Ermine, Jr. Description of his career, starting as a physician in Ohio, moving to Kansas City in 1857, editing two newspapers in 1860, becoming a Union officer in the Civil War, entering real estate and construction with his brother Oliver, losing most of his money around 1870 due to an economic panic, drought, and grasshopper plague, being appointed city postmaster in 1873, and publishing the "Western Review of Science and Industry" journal and other scientific and quasi-scientific papers in Kansas City.
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1878
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q920.07 U59
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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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