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Case, Theodore Spencer

soldier, physician, journalist, was born Jan. 26, 1832, in Jackson, Butts county, Ga. From 1860 till 1861 he edited the Medical Review of Kansas City, Mo. He became second lieutenant of the twenty-fifth Missouri infantry in 1861, and later captain and assistant quartermaster. In 1865 he was made colonel and quartermaster-general of Missouri, and from 1866 till 1868 was curator of the university of Missouri.

From 1873 till 1885 he was postmaster of Kansas City; and in 1885 became professor of chemistry in Kansas City Medical college. He edited the Kansas City Review of Science and Industry from 1877 till 1885; and in 1886 became president of the Kansas City real estate and stock exchange.