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James Duard Marshall was a painter, lithographer, museum director, and art conservator who lived most of his life in Kansas City. Duard [pronounced "doo-erd"] was a student of Thomas Hart Benton and is best known for his 30-foot mural created for the centennial of Neosho, Missouri in 1939. The civic leaders of Neosho had approached Benton to produce the mural, as Benton had been born in Neosho, but he suggested that his student Marshall do the job. That mural hangs in the Neosho Newton County Library.
McGinty is a surname of Irish origin.
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- ↑ Philip Thomason (March 1993). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Neosho Commercial Historic District" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 24 photographs from 1993) and Site map
- ↑ Family proud building named after Hale McGinty; Neosho Daily News; January 17, 2010
- ↑ Neosho; Life Magazine; May 26, 1941
- ↑ Family proud building named after Hale McGinty; Neosho Daily News; January 17, 2010