Excerpt from Notable St. Louisans in 1900: A Portrait Gallery of Men Whose Energy and Ability Have Contributed Largely Towards Making St. Louis the Commercial and Financial Metropolis of the West, Southwest and SouthBelow each name will be found a brief title or description. For purposes of uniformity these titles are limited to two lines, and an effort has been made to select such descriptions as are most 11p-to-date and distinctive. To have enumerated every past and present office of some of those whose pictures are given would have required nearly a page of space, and would have changed the work from a portrait gallery to a collection of biographies.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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