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- On this day, Robert McClure Snyder, one of the wealthiest men in Kansas City and the builder of Ha Ha Tonka in Camden County was out for a drive. He was one of the first people in Kansas City to have an automobile. His driver swerved to miss a child and Snyder became one of the first to be killed in an auto accident.
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Jun 5, 2022 · The boy, Arthur Rodell, was carried into a nearby store, unconscious and bleeding from his ears. He died later that evening. Robert McClure Snyder was taken to a hospital where the impact of the pole to his head had crushed his skull. He was pronounced dead. He was 54 years old.
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Oct 27, 2020 · He was one of the first people in Kansas City to have an automobile. His driver swerved to miss a child and Snyder became one of the first to be killed in an auto accident.
Jul 21, 2017 · By October, 1906, the outside of the mansion was finished except for some remaining work on the roof. Snyder would not live to see its completion. He died as the result of a car accident on October 27, 1906, while in Kansas City. The Snyder Family Corporation. After Snyder’s death, work at Hahatonka quickly came to a standstill.
On October 27, 1906, Robert McClure Snyder, one of the wealthiest men in Kansas City and builder of Ha Ha Tonka mansion in Camden County, was out for a drive. He was one of the first people in Kansas City to own an automobile.
Shortly after their return from a European trip in October 1907, Snyder’s father died unexpectedly in one of the first motor car accidents in Kansas City.
In 1906 Robert M. Snyder was killed in an automobile accident on Independence Boulevard in Kansas City. It was one of the states first automobile accidents. The building of his mansion came to a halt at Ha Ha Tonka.
Oct 27, 2016 · Robert purchased 2500 acres of Ozark land and set out to build his castle high on the bluffs above the spring below, but he was killed in an auto accident in 1906 before it was ever close to finished.
