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100 1 $aAndrews, Gregg.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91018890
245 10 $aInsane sisters, or, The price paid for challenging a company town /$cGregg Andrews.
246 30 $aInsane sisters
246 30 $aPrice paid for challenging a company town
260 $aColumbia, Mo. :$bUniversity of Missouri Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axii, 262 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-252) and index.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aOn 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."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aAfter 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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aIlasco (Mo.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aReal property$zMissouri$zIlasco$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aInsanity (Law)$zMissouri$zIlasco$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aIlasco (Mo.)$vBiography.
600 10 $aHeinbach, Mary Alice.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99036789
600 10 $aKoller, Euphemia B.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99036793
852 00 $boff,glx$hF474.I23$iA54 1999