Author

Publication

2010 - Arcadia Pub., Charleston, SC, South Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

31,750 words, Guess

Page Count

127 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100738577170
  • ISBN-139780738577173
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009928537
  • OCLC Control Number505616623
  • Better World Books9780738577173
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Classifications

  • LCCF689.W6 W643 2010

Description

Wichita, a city of entrepreneurs, offered an ideal home for Middle Eastern Christians who started arriving in the 1890s. Initially identifying themselves as Syrians, they operated as peddlers across southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma. Peddling rapidly gave way to wholesale, grocery, and dry goods companies. Patriarchs such as N. F. Farha and E. G. Stevens established themselves in local business and civic circles....The Lebanese established two churches, St. George Orthodox Church and St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church, that became focal points of community life.

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Series Statement

  • Images of America

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