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Old 08-02-2014, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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To be accurate, "the first telephone directory for Independence", which came out in 1880. Notice that there were only two residential customers. I slipped the word residence, and the last entry, when you all were distracted.
I had come up with the phone thing early on but mistakenly thought the date of the first phone in Independence was 1906, and thought that listing had to be earlier so it could not be a phone list. The 1906 date was actually for the first phone in the SE Kansas town where I was born.

Having said that, it seemed that Independence in 1880 got with the phone invention rather early. The first phone system seems to have appeared in the US in 1876 or 77.
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Old 08-02-2014, 11:21 AM
 
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To be accurate, "the first telephone directory for Independence", which came out in 1880. Notice that there were only two residential customers. I slipped the word residence, and the last entry, when you all were distracted.

I shoulda got credit for the Polk's Directory guess

Close enuff !
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:10 PM
 
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I shoulda got credit for the Polk's Directory guess

Close enuff !
Okay, you now have credit, which you can redeem on a future question.
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:20 PM
 
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Okay, you now have credit, which you can redeem on a future question.

OK, hit us up

After nailing the DePugh Q after 2-3 days, I'm fired up
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:41 PM
 
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Minuteman
Robert (Simon) Bolivar DePugh

Eventually captured near Truth or Consequences, NM . . . that news was the first I'd ever heard of the place
Now I remember the dude! My wetware just had problems accessing that file.
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Old 08-02-2014, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Independence, MO
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Minuteman
Robert (Simon) Bolivar DePugh

Eventually captured near Truth or Consequences, NM . . . that news was the first I'd ever heard of the place
And he had a home that was 2 or 3 doors north of Stan's DX on the east side of South Kiger. The house slanted out at the top of the front as compared to the bottom. Quite modernistic for its day. The house is still there.
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Old 08-02-2014, 02:39 PM
 
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OK, hit us up

After nailing the DePugh Q after 2-3 days, I'm fired up
Ask and ye shall receive!

Which Independence school was named for a well-known slave?
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Old 08-02-2014, 03:56 PM
 
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Ask and ye shall receive!

Which Independence school was named for a well-known slave?

Dred Scott?

Harriet Tubman?

Hiram Young?
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Old 08-02-2014, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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Ask and ye shall receive!

Which Independence school was named for a well-known slave?
Young School.

However, when he owned his wagon manufacturing shop he was an ex-slave and he was an ex-slave when the school was named.

When he owned the wagon shop, he bought slaves for his work force and let them work their way to freedom.

The wagon manufacturing shop was at what is now 24 Hiway and Main, I think.

I suppose they put him that far out of town for a reason but his wagons were supposed to have been well built.

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Old 08-02-2014, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Centennial, Colorado
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And he had a home that was 2 or 3 doors north of Stan's DX on the east side of South Kiger. The house slanted out at the top of the front as compared to the bottom. Quite modernistic for its day. The house is still there.
I did not know that he lived there.

He had to have lived there when I was working at 23rd and then Kiger.
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