| Robert A. Long |
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Long made his fortune in lumber operating the Long-Bell Lumber Company. He founded the city of Longview, Washington , a "planned city" built in 1923 around two of Long-Bell's lumbermills. He personally donated the city's public library, first high school, YMCA hall and its Monticello Hotel . Long's city home in Kansas City , Corinthian Hall, is now the Kansas City Museum. Longview Farm was built in 1913-1914 on the outskirts of Kansas City. Portions of the farm are now sites of Longview College and of Longview Lake . Long was a driving force behind the creation of Kansas City's Liberty Memorial , a World War I museum and monument. SOURCES
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