Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Louis Houck is often called the "Father of Southeast Missouri" because he brought the railroad to the region and opened the area to industrialization and modernization. This biography tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State ...
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Lawyer and journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Louis Houck is often called the "Father of Southeast Missouri" because he brought the railroad to the region and opened the area to industrialization and modernization. This biography tells how Houck not only developed the region economically but also followed the lead of Andrew Carnegie by making art, culture, and formal education available to all social classes. Houck also served for thirty-six years as president of the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State Teacher's College, and as a self-taught historian he wrote the first comprehensive accounts of Missouri's territorial period.
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