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Provides short biographies on notable men and women from Missouri from a variety of areas including politics, business, agriculture, entertainment, sports, social reform, science and religion.
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Daniel Kane, Sr. (1810-1870) was born at Londonderry, County Derry, Northern Ireland. He married Catherine Dixon and four of their eight children were born there. They emigrated to Canada in 1846 during the time of the Great Potato Famine and settled in Huron Co., Ontario. They lived there for over twenty years. Four more children were born in McKillop Twp., Ontario. Later, family members moved to Minnesota and settled at Melrose, in Stearns Co. in 1869. Daniel died at Reno, Minn. when he froze to death in a blizzard.
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When Napoleon was exiled to the Island of Elba, his second wife Marie Louise was separated from him and ruled as the duchess of Parma. This book examines her life during this period and later.
. . . The first original contribution to the debate on the opium war in a very long time. -- Peter Wesley-Smith, author of Unequal Treaty 1898-1997--Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26 January 1841. The man responsible - Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot - was recalled by his government in disgrace and has also been vilified ever since by China. --This book tells a different story. Describing the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view - through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara - it shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. On three occasi...
William Kinney (birth date, place and parents not listed) died in 1770 in Desarte, Little Creek [Hd?], Sussex County, Delaware. He married Mary (birth date, place and parents not listed). She died after 1770. They were the parents of 4 children. Descendants have lived in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, Maryland, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Oregon and elsewhere in the United States.
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