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• Title: Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857-1941
• Author : Kate Sayen Kirkland
• Release Date : January 01, 2012
• Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,History,United States,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 14622 KB

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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.
KATE SAYEN KIRKLAND, a writer and editor based in Houston, has previously written a book on the influential Hogg family. She holds a PhD from Rice University.

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