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- catalog abstract ""Insane Sisters is the extraordinary tale of two sisters, Mary Alice Heinbach and Euphemia B. Koller, and their seventeen-year property dispute against the nation's leading cement corporation - the Atlas Portland Cement Company."--Jacket. "In 1903, Atlas built a plant on the border of the small community of Ilasco, located just outside Hannibal - home of the infamous cave popularized in Mark Twain's most acclaimed novels. The rich and powerful Atlas quickly appointed itself as caretaker of Twain's heritage and sought to take control of Ilasco. However, its authority was challenged in 1910 when Heinbach inherited her husband's tract of land that formed much of the unincorporated town site. On grounds that Heinbach's husband had been in the advanced stages of alcoholism when she married him the year before, some of Ilasco's political leaders and others who had ties to Atlas challenged the will, charging Heinbach with undue influence."--Jacket. "To help fight against the local lawyers and politicians who wanted Atlas to own the land, Heinbach enlisted the help of her shrewd and combative sister, Euphemia Koller, by making her co-owner of the tract. In a complex case that went to the Missouri Supreme Court four times, the sisters fiercely sought to hang on to the tract. However, in 1921 the county probate court imposed a guardianship over Heinbach and a circuit judge ordered a sheriff's sale of the property. After Atlas purchased the tract, Koller waged a lonely battle to overturn the sale and expose the political conspiracies that had led to Ilasco's conversion into a company town. Her efforts ultimately resulted in her court-ordered confinement in 1927 to Missouri's State Hospital Number One for the Insane, where she remained until her death at age sixty-eight."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Insane sisters".
- catalog alternative "Price paid for challenging a company town".
- catalog contributor b11354586.
- catalog coverage "Ilasco (Mo.) Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Ilasco (Mo.) History 20th century.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""In 1903, Atlas built a plant on the border of the small community of Ilasco, located just outside Hannibal - home of the infamous cave popularized in Mark Twain's most acclaimed novels. The rich and powerful Atlas quickly appointed itself as caretaker of Twain's heritage and sought to take control of Ilasco. However, its authority was challenged in 1910 when Heinbach inherited her husband's tract of land that formed much of the unincorporated town site. On grounds that Heinbach's husband had been in the advanced stages of alcoholism when she married him the year before, some of Ilasco's political leaders and others who had ties to Atlas challenged the will, charging Heinbach with undue influence."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""Insane Sisters is the extraordinary tale of two sisters, Mary Alice Heinbach and Euphemia B. Koller, and their seventeen-year property dispute against the nation's leading cement corporation - the Atlas Portland Cement Company."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""To help fight against the local lawyers and politicians who wanted Atlas to own the land, Heinbach enlisted the help of her shrewd and combative sister, Euphemia Koller, by making her co-owner of the tract. In a complex case that went to the Missouri Supreme Court four times, the sisters fiercely sought to hang on to the tract. However, in 1921 the county probate court imposed a guardianship over Heinbach and a circuit judge ordered a sheriff's sale of the property. After Atlas purchased the tract, Koller waged a lonely battle to overturn the sale and expose the political conspiracies that had led to Ilasco's conversion into a company town.".
- catalog description "Her efforts ultimately resulted in her court-ordered confinement in 1927 to Missouri's State Hospital Number One for the Insane, where she remained until her death at age sixty-eight."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-252) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 262 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Insane sisters, or, The price paid for challenging a company town.".
- catalog identifier "0826212409 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Insane sisters, or, The price paid for challenging a company town.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Insane sisters, or, The price paid for challenging a company town.".
- catalog spatial "Ilasco (Mo.) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Ilasco (Mo.) History 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "Missouri Ilasco".
- catalog subject "977.8/355 21".
- catalog subject "F474.I23 A54 1999".
- catalog subject "Heinbach, Mary Alice.".
- catalog subject "Insanity (Law) Missouri Ilasco History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Koller, Euphemia B.".
- catalog subject "Real property Missouri Ilasco History 20th century.".
- catalog title "Insane sisters".
- catalog title "Insane sisters, or, The price paid for challenging a company town / Gregg Andrews.".
- catalog title "Price paid for challenging a company town".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".