Honor Kansas City Explorer after Half a Century: Dr. Edwin R. Heath, 3343 Forest Avenue, Who Discovered South American River in 1880, Given Unique Distinction
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Honor Kansas City Explorer after Half a Century: Dr. Edwin R. Heath, 3343 Forest Avenue, Who Discovered South American River in 1880, Given Unique Distinction
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Photos, illustrations, and biographical article about Dr. Edwin Heath, a Kansas City physician and explorer and mapper of a previously undiscovered South American River called the Beni in 1880, with the Heath River, part of the boundary between Bolivia and Peru. Description of his career, becoming a doctor in New York and coming to Wyandotte, Kansas, about 1863, before traveling to South America with Dr. J. P. Root, a Wyandotte resident and United States "minister to Chile" in the 1860s, returning afterwards to reside at 3343 Forest Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.
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1924-05-18
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Kansas City Journal-Post
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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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