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<p>Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate. Working tirelessly with local authorities, Baker saved Rice’s fortune from more than one hundred claimants; he championed the wishes of his deceased client and founded Rice Institute for the Advance
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- Author
- Kate Sayen Kirkland
- Publisher
- Texas A & M University Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781603447973
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Historical Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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