Tom Pendergast relocated to Kansas City in1894, Missouri joining his brother James who at the time was the owner of the American house a hotel and saloon. James would be very successful and as more wealth came in, he would employee more family. Tom would improve his situation from doing odd jobs to being the bookkeeper for his older brother. James established himself in the West bottoms of Kansas City which boarders of Kansas state line separated by the Missouri River.  The west bottoms lacked sanitation and maintained roadways for travel. These establishments were crucial to the West bottoms since the area was railyards, warehouses, immigrants, blacks, packing houses, and white workers who labored in the area. Establishments such as this were important to the area as they catered to men who worked very long hours. They also served as banks for these workers in areas that did not care to tend to the business of these blue-collar workers. James would become very well-known and could extend his businesses outside of the West bottoms and establish himself in the North End of the city where there was another neighborhood of the working-class increasing his name in the town.[1]

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