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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

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They're some of our favorites. Up next, a story about the only president from the state of

Missouri, Harry S. Truman. Here's our own Monty Montgomery to get us started.

Harry Truman was born May 8, 1884, in Lamar, Missouri. But his family would soon move to the town he's most associated

with. Here's MPS Ranger Doug Richardson with more. It was likely in 1890 that the Truman family

settled in independence, mostly so that Harry could attend the better schools.

And for the rest of his life, Truman described Kansas City as a suburb of independence. He believed that.

Well, it's good to be back home. And what I call the center of the world, Independence, Missouri.

I think it's the greatest town in the United States, and I've been all over the country,

and I've been to Europe and South America and several other places.

But I still like to come back home, and I'll continue to feel that way as long as I live. And I think you

find everybody in Independence feels the same way about this town because it's the center of things

for most of us and it's the center of things for me. And I'm more than happy to be here and to stay

here for the rest of my life.

Truman would graduate from those schools his family moved to Independence for in 1901,

meeting his future wife, Best Wallace, in the process.

But his plans for higher education didn't pan out. Harry Truman's father suffered a financial reversal of sorts.

And it appears as if John Anderson Truman lost at the time about $40,000

as a result of some not so great investments.

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