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For more information on Mary Margaret McBride, visit "Women in American History" by the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Internationally acclaimed artist Gordon Snidow was born in Paris. His works can be found in the county's historical society's museum at the courthouse. He is an Emeritus Member of the Cowboy Artists of America. For more information on Gordon Snidow, visit his web site, GordonSnidow.com, the Fenton Gallery, Reneau Art, and the Claggett/Rey Gallery. Use web search engines to find many more references to Gordon Snidow.
Information on the Paris area founding fathers will be forthcoming. Other Influential, High-Achieving, and Accomplished People Brief biographies of other noteworthy Paris area people will be forthcoming.
Revised Monday, October 16, 2006
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Paris is the hometown of the late Mary Margaret
McBride, one of Missouri's best-known author and radio and television
personalities during the 1920 -1930s. A graduate of the University of
Missouri School of Journalism in 1919, she began broadcasting for WOR
(New York) in 1934 and attracted millions of listeners, mostly women, with her
personal confessions and interviews with noted personalities. She also
wrote for such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Saturday Evening Post
and Good Housekeeping, has had a newspaper column for Associated Press
and wrote numerous books including How Dear To My Heart (1940). She
died April 7, 1976.
