Category: Interview
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Johann Friedrich Daniel Wendt – Soldier, Immigrant, and Farmer
We know quite a lot about Max and Minnie Wendt after they settle, by 1870, first in Moberly, MO, then St. Louis, MO, finally Kansas City, KS. Before that; before they emigrated from Germany, we have few details about their whereabouts and lives. Here, we present what is known and unknown with a few theories…
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The True Identity of Delamer Duverus
The Golden Reed, by Delamer Duverus, outlined the vision of humanity and the future where he predicted the downfall of mankind in the kind of apocalyptic terms usually reserved for science fiction, oracles of doom and madmen. Let’s see who he actually was.
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Dearest Dorothy – the Love Letters of Johnny Baldwin
Between June 1939 and May 1940, with World War II looming, Naval Signalman, John “Johnny” Baldwin carried on a long distance letter writing courtship with Dorothy Lee Dixon. In all, 35 letters were sent to Dorothy. Before they married in May 1940, they had only met twice.
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Lola F Purtee Donahue Interview – growing up along the Kansas River
“… I don’t know how, why, but I was in the car with them, and the police were stopping and inspecting cars. And Paul Lee turned to Irma Craighead (I was in the back seat), Paul Lee turned to Irma Craighead and said, “Get your Bible out, get your Bible out and show ‘em!”
Family Stories I've Found 