Jr Baker

Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941

• Author(s): Kate Sayen Kirkland

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2012-09-01
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• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate. Working tirelessly with local authorities, Baker saved Rice’s fortune from more than one hundred claimants; he championed the wishes of his deceased client and founded Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art—today’s internationally acclaimed Rice University. For fifty years Captain Baker nurtured Rice’s dream. He partnered with leading lawyers to create Houston’s...

Cumulated Index Medicus

• Categories: Medicine

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1968
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Directory of Organization and Field Activities of the Department of Agriculture

• Categories: Agriculture

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1962
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Air Force Register

• Author(s): United States. Air Force. Office of the Directorate of Personnel Program Actions

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1968
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• Publisher: Unknown

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U.S. Army Register

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Army

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1961
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• Publisher: Unknown

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