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KALLOGH: Death and scandal trail Kansas town founder to San Francisco
The article traces Isaac Smith Kalloch from Ottawa Kansas founder roles to his 1879 election as San Francisco mayor. It notes ambitious schemes to build schools churches railroads and a university, plus a searing Times Life excerpt calling him a famed promoter and unscrupulous rogue, culminating in his 1879 shooting and eventual death in 1887.
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Kallogh
San Francisco
Kalloch
Golden Voice
M.M. Marberry
C.C. Hutchinson
Hutchinson, Kan
Ottawa
Ottawas
Barker
Ottawa University
Logan
Cherry
Seventh
Ash
John Mark Lambertson
Franklin County Historical Society
Lambertson
Western Home Journal
Second Baptist Church
Balloch
Leavenworth, Lawrence and
Galveston
Kansas
Anderson
Franklin
Douglas
Ottawa Reserve
Tony Jones
Marais Des Cygnes
Hope Cemetery
Time Life
Isaac Smith Kalloch
Lawrence
de Young
Milton Kalloch
Chronicle