What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of Kansas City, Missouri and its people.
This is a scanned copy on CD of the original 3 – Volume set published in 1908.
Kansas City Missouri
Its History
and Its People
1808 – 1908
BY
CARRIE WESTLAKE WHITNEY
VOLUME I ,VOLUME 2, VOLUME 3
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO:
D.L. CLARK PUBLISHING CO.
1908
(2050 pages on 1 CD)
An essential resource for Genealogists
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CONTENTS
VOL. 1
Chapter I. - At the Kaw's mouth
Chapter II. - Independence and Westport
Chapter III. - "Zion" redeemed
Chapter IV. - The town of Kansas
Chapter V. - Hills and hollows transposed
Chapter VI. - Teh levee outgrown
Chapter VII. - On the road to Santa Fe
Chapter VIII. - Civil War period
Chapter IX. - The new era
Chapter X. - Banking and finance
Chapter XI. - The story of the railroads
Chapter XII. - Realty in Kansas City
Chapter XIII. - The public utilities
Chapter XIV. - The civic associations
Chapter XV. - Education
Chapter XVI. - The free public library
Chapter XVII. - The press
Chapter XVIII. - Churches
Chapter XIX. - Chapter XIX. Charities
Chapter XX. - The legal and medical professions
Chapter XXI. - The great industries
Chapter XXII. - Federal department in Kansas City
Chapter XXIII. - The newer city
Chapter XXIV. - Revival of river transportation
Chapter XXV. - The city charters
Chapter XXVI. - Parks and boulevards
Chapter XXVII. - Art movements in Kansas City
Chapter XXVIII. - Women's clubs
Chapter XXIX. - Social life
Chapter XXX. - Kansas City in prophecy
SURNAMES
LISTED IN THE INDEX - VOL. 1
Abbott, Abeel, Abernathy, Adams, Adkins, Adkinson, Aguirre, Alcott, Allbright, Allcutt, Allen, Alther, Anaugi Anderson, Andrews, Armour, Armstrong, Arnoldia, Ashbaugh, Ashburn, Askew, Astor, Atchison, Atwill, Aubrey, Aull, Austin, Auther, Axman, Bachman, Bacon, Bagley, Bailey, Bainbridge, Baird, Baker, Baldwin, Bales, Ballingal, Banks, Barclay, Barlow, Barnes, Barney, Barse, Bartholet, Bartlett, Barton, Bauerlein, Bayha, Beadle, Beals, Beattie, Beckman, Becknell, Beel, Behan, Belanger, Bell, Belmar, Benjamin, Bennett, Benson, Benteen, Benton, Benzenberg, Berger, Bergman, Berkowitz, Berkshire, Bernard, Bernheimer, Bent, Betts, Betz, Bigelow, Bigger, Bingham, Binswanger, Bishop, Bittinger, Black, Blair, Bland, Block, Blood, Blunt, Boggs, Bogie, Bohan, Boice, Bolen, Bone, Bonebrake, Bonham, Boone, Boor, Booth, Boreman, Borland, Boutie, Bouton, Bower, Bowers, Bowker, Bowser, Bradley, Brady, Bramscomb, Branch, Branham, Brannick, Brazeale, Breeze, Breidenthal, Brice, Brichaut, Bridgeford, Bridger, Brierly, Brinkman, Brisbane, Britton, Broadhead, Brodkins, Brooke, Brooker, Brooks, Brown, Brozeal, Brumback, Brumidl, Bryant, Buchanan, Bucher, Buck, Buckner, Budd, Buell, Bullene, Bunker, Burge, Burke, Burnett, Burnham, Burr, Burris, Butts, Byers, Byrnes, Cahill, Cahn, Caldwell, Calloway, Colvin, Cambliss, Cammack, Camp, Campbell, Canon, Cantrell, Canville, Carlat, Carkener, Carpenter, Carson, Carter, Case, Casey, Chace, Chalfant, Chambers, Chambliss, Champagne, Chanute, Chapman, Chappel, Chavez, Cheany, Cheever, Chenny, Chester, Chew, Chick, Child, Childs, Chouteau, Chrisman, Christopher, Churchill, Clark, Clarke, Clemons, Clemson, Clendenning, Cline, Coalter, Coates, Cobb, Coburn, Cochrane, Coe, Coffman, Cohen, Colley, Collins, Colman, Colvin, Combs, Comingo, Comings, Comstock, Conant, Connelly, Connor, Conover, Cook, Cooke, Cooper, Copeland, Cordian, Corle, Corrigan, Corrill, Coughlin, Couzins, Cowan, Cowdery, Cowen, Cowherd, Cox, Crabbs, Craddock, Craig, Cravens, Crawford, Creagor, Creel, Crisp, Crittenden, Cromer, Cronin, Cross, Crowell, Crum, Crutcher, Curtis, Cushing, Cutts, Dahlsten, Dale, Dalton, Davis, Davy, Day, Dean, De Crisap, Deichman, Delap, De Launay, Denny, De Smet, Devereux, Diaz, Dibble, Dick, Dickerson, Dickey, Dickinson, Dickman, Dietzgen, Dillon, D'Isay, Ditsch, Dively,Dodge, Doggett, Dominick, Donahue, Donnelly, Doran, Doring, Dougherty, Douglas, Douglass, Dowling, Downing, Dripps, Drbois, Duncan, Dundee, Dunklin, Dunlap, Dunn, Dunscombe, Dunston, Durfee, Dyas, Eaton, Eberle, Edds, Edgerton, Edwards, Egbert, Eggers, Egner, Eisely, Eisvogels, Elkins, Ellet, Ellicott, Ellis, Ellison, Ellsworth, Elston, Emery, Emmons, English, Enright, Epperson, Eslinger, Ess, Evans, Everhart, Ewing, Ezakiel, Ezekiel, Faeth, Fagan, Farlow, Faxon, Reil, Feld, Felty, Fennell, Ferrill, Ferry, Field, Filley, Findlay, Fisher, Fitzgerald, Fitzgibbons, Fitzhugh, Flack, Fleming, Flershiem, Flineman, Flournoy, Flower, Flowerree, Folk, Fonda, Ford, Foster, Fournais, Fowler, Foy, Fristoe, Frost, Fuller, Fulton, Funston, Fuoss, Furgason, Gage, Gallup, Gamble, Garside, Gass, Gates, Gaylord, Gehring, Geir, Gentry, George, Gibson, Gilbert, Gill, Gilles, Gillham, Gillis, Gilpin, Given, Glaman, Gleason, Gleed, Glennon, Glime, Glover, Godbey, Goffe, Goforth, Goodwin, Gould, Green, Greenwood, Greer, Gregg, Gregory, Griff, Griffin, Griffis, Grimes, Grissom, Gross, Groves, Grute, Guffin, Guinotte, Hadley, Haff, Hagerman, Hale, Haley, Hall, Hallar, Hallett, Halley, Hallowell, Halpin, Hamilton, Hammerslough, Hancock, Hand, Handy, Hann, Hanna, Hannah, Hanowalt, Hanson, Harder, Harlan, Harlow, Harmon, Harney, Harris, Harrison, Harvey, Hasbrook, Haskell, Haslett, Hawkins, Hawks, Hayden, Hayes, Hays, Hedges, Hedrick, Helm, Hendrix, Henry, Hereford, Herndon, Hertzberg, Heyl, Hicks, High, Hill, Hilliker, Hocker, Hodge, Hoffman, Hogan, Holt, Holden, Holloway, Holmes, Holton, Howes, Honke, Hopkins, Horn, Horning, Horton, Houck, Hough, House, Hovey, Howe, Howell, Hubbard, Hudgins, Hudson, Hughes, Huhn, Huling, Hulse, Hunt, Hunter, Huppert, Hutching, Hutchins, Hutchinson, Huttig, Hutton, Hyman, Inman, Irwin, Jackson, James, Jameson, Janssen, Jarboe, Jardine, Jaudon, javins, Jehn, Jenkins, Jewett, Jobe, Johnson, Johnston, Jones, Joy, Kander, Karnes, Kaufman, Kean, Kearney, Keen, Kellar, Keller, Kendall, Kenefick, Kennedy, Kenning, Kerley, Kessinger, Kimball, Kimberlin, King, Kinnaird, Kinney, Kirkman, Kirkpatrick, Kleber, Klinger, Kloss, Koehler, Krans, Kumpf, Kurts, Kyle, La Barge, Ladd, La Force, La Hines, Lambert, Lampe, Lankford, Lanphear, Latchaw, Lathrop, Latz, Laughlin, Law, Lawrence, Lea, Leach, Lebrecht, Lee, Leftwitch, Leiberman, Lemoine, Lesneur, Lester, Leverige, Lewis, Lillis, Lindell, Lindsay, Linkingfelter, Linn, Lippincott, Lockridge, Logan, Lombard, Lampkin, Long, Longan, Loos, Lorie, Love, Lovejoy, Lowe, Lowry, Lucas, Lumpkin, Luther, Lutz, Lykins, Lyons, McArdle, McBride, McCarty, McClellan, McClure, McCormick, McCoy, McCrary, McCune, McDaniel, McDearmon, McDonald, McFarlane, McGee, McGhee, McGraw, McGuire, McHenry, McKee, McKenzie, McKinney, McKinnon, McKnight, McLaren, McLellin, McMillen, McMurray, McRoberts, Madden, Madison, Mahoney, Majors, Mann, Mansur, Marmaduke, Marsh, Marshall, Martin, Mason, Mastin, Mathews, Matthews, Maughs, Mayer, Meinrath, Mengas, Mercier, Merine, Merriam, Meyer, Miller, Millett, Milligan, Mills, Mitchell, Mitchener, Modie, Moffet, Moise, Montgomery, Moore, Morey, Morgan, Morley, Morrin, Morris, Morrison, Morse, Moss, Muehlschuster, Mulhaupt, Mulkey, Munford, Munger, Murdock, Murphy, Myer, Myers, Nave, Neff, Neilson, Nelson, Nettleton, New, Nichols, Nicolet, Noble, Nofsinger, Norberg, Nortleet, Norman, Northrup, Oakes, O'Brien, O'Connor, O'Donnell, O'Dwyer, O'Flaherty, Oglebay, O'Kane, Oldham, Olmstead, O'Neill, O'Regan, O'Shaughnessy, Otto, Overton, Owen, Park, Parker, Parmenter, Parrish, Partridge, Patrick, Patterson, Pattison, Paulo, Payne, Peak, Pearse, Pearson, Peck, Peet, Perkins, Perry, Peters, Phelps, Phillips, Pierce, Pile, Pinkston, Pitcher, Polk, Pomeroy, Poor, Porter, Powell, Pratt, Prentis, Prescott, Price, Priddy, Prince, Prindle, Pruitt, Putnam, Quantrell, Quarles, Quayle, Rabe, Ragan, Ralph, Ralston, Ramage, Ramsey, Rankin, Ransom, Rawlings, Ray, Raymond, Reed, Reeder, Reid, Reiger, Reinhart, Reynolds, Rhodes, Rice, Richards, Richardson, Richter, Riddlebarger, Ridenour, Ridge, Ridgeley, Rigdon, Ripley, Ritchey, Ritchie, Roberts, Robertson, Rovidoux, Robinson, Roby, Rockwell, Roe, Rogers, Roi, Ross, Rothenburg, Rothgieser, Roux, Rowley, Royer, Rozzelle, Rule, Runnion, Russell, Rust, Ruxton, Ryan, Ryder, Sadler, Sager, St. Clair, Salisbury, Samuels, Sanderson, Sass, Sauer, Saunier, Sawyer, Scammon, Scarrit, Scarritt, Schaad, Schapman, Schauffler, Schley, Schmeizer, Schoellkopf, Schoen, Schultze, Scotford, Scott, Sebree, Seeger, Seested, Sessions, Sewell, Sexton, Shannon, Sharp, Shaw, Sheeley, Sheffield, Sheidley, Sheley, Shelley, Shepard, Sheridan, Short, Shouse, Shulman, Sibley, Silvey, Sims, Simpson, Slater, Slavens, Sloan, Slover, Smalley, Smart, Smith, Snell, Snider, Snyder, Soden, Spalding, Spears, Spellman, Spengler, Squier, Stark, Steacy, Stebbins, Steele, Steen, Stephens, Stevens, Stewart, Stiles, Stillwell, Stimson, Stone, Stoller, Stout, Stowe, Strean, Street, Strong, Stull, Sturges, Sublett, Sumner, Sutermeister, Sutliff, Swain, Swift, Swinney, Switzer, Swofford, Swope, Sylvester, Symington, Tainter, Taintor, Talbot, Talpey, Tassouf, Tate, Taylor, Teed, Tefft, Tew, Thacher, Tharpe, Thayer, Thomas, Thomson, Thompson, Thorn, Thorne, Thornton, Tichenor, Tiffany, Tillery, Timmerman, Tindell, Titus, Tobener, Tod, Todd, Tomlinson, Topping, Tourtelot, Townley, Traber, Tracy, Treadway, Trefren, Trickett, Trigg, Trimble, Troost, Troxell, Trumbull, Bschudy, Tucke, Turner, Turney, Twiss, Twitchell, Twyman, Ullman, Underwood, Van Daun, Van Horn, Van Landingham, Van Quickenborne, Vaughan, Verhoegen, Vineyard, Vogel, Volker, Wagoner, Wagonhals, Waite, Waitman, Walden, Waldron, Waldo, Walker, Wallace, Waller, Walrond, Walters, Ward, Warder, Waren, Warfield, Warner, Washburn, Waterman, Watkins, Watson, Webb, Weber, Webster, Weeks, Weightman, Weil, Wells, Welsh, Werlein, West, Weston, Wheeler, Wheatley, Whipple, White, Whitehead, Whitlock, Whitmer, Whitney, Wilder, Wiles, Wilkes, Williams, Willis, Wilson, Winants, Winch, Wineland, Winner, Winsborough, Winslow, Winter, Witzig, Wofford, Wolf, Wontz, Wood, Woodbury, Woods, Woodson, Woodward, Woodworth, Woolf, Wornall, Worthington, Wright, Wuertz, Wuerz, Wyman, Yancy, Yantis, Yeager, Yocum, Yore, Young, Younger
BIOGRAPHICAL - VOL. 2
Abernathy, Adams, Adkins, Ahern, Allen, Anaugi, Arnold, Atwill, Baehr, Baker, Ball, Bannister, Banta, Barham, Barkley, Bartlett, Battell, Bayles, Beals, Beekman, Bell, Bellemere, Blue, Boutell, Branham, Brodnax, Brown, Bruner, Brunner, Budd, Bunting, Burnham, Burton, Butler, Button, Caffery, Campbell, Cavanaugh, Child, Chouteau, Clark, Coe, Cole, Colgan, Collier, Collins, Colvin, Conner, Conrad, Cook, Cooper, Cosby, Cranfill, Cravens, Crosby, Crowe, Crutcher, Culbertson, Dalton, Dayton, De Bord, Dew, Doherty, Dominick, Downing, Durham, Dumm, Dunn, Dwight, Eastwood, Eaton, Edwards, Egner, Eneberg, Ennis, Evans, Eyssell, Ferree, Fitts, Flahive, Fletcher, Foster, Fudge, Gage, Gardner, Gaskill, Gentry, Glass, Glover, Goodman, Gordon, Gossard, Gray, Green, Greenwood, Griffin, Griffith, Gross, Groves, Guinotte, Hagerman, Hairgrove, Halcro, Hall, Halley, Harzfeld, Hayward, Hedges, Hedrick, Heite, Henderson, Henn, Hewson, High, Higley, Hilliker, Hofmann, Holmes, Holtz, Hoover, Hughes, Hurt, Huttig, Hyatt, Jaccard, Jackson, Johnson, Kahmann, Karnes, Kearney, Keith, Kenmuir, Kienzle, Kinlen, Kirk, Knapp, Koch, Kornbrodt, Kraus, LaForce, Leng, Lengel, Leslie, Lewis, Lillis, Lipscomb, Livingston, Lombard, Long, Loomas, Lorie, Lowe, McClure, McCullum, McCoy, McCrum, McLaughlin, Mackenzie, Manville, Martin, Mason, Mathias, Maxwell, Merine, Merrill, Meservey, Meyer, Middleton, Minor, Montgall, Moore, Moriarty, Morley, Morris, Morrison, Moulton, Muehlebach, Mulligan, Murdock, Murphy, Murphey, Nave, Nelson, Newham, Norton, Oldham, Oliver, O'Mara, Orrison, Orthwein, Pain, Parker, Patton, Peake, Pearson, Peck, Peet, Peltzer, Pfost, Phillips, Platt, Pontius, Porter, Prescott, Priddy, Proctor, Pugh, Punton, Putnam, Pyle, Raach, Raber, Reynolds, Ridenour, Ridge, Robinson, Rosenberger, Rosenzweig, Ross, Rule, Rumble, Runyan, Ryan, Ryder, Sanford, Saunders, Scarritt, Schaefer, Scholey, Scott, Seaver, Sedgewick, Seehorn, Setzler, Shaw, Sills, Slavens, Smart, Smith, Snead, Snyder, Soden, Stevenson, Stine, Stoeltzing, Stone, Sullivan, Sulzbacher, Suydam, Sweeney, Sweet, Swinney, Swope, Talbott, Tarsney, Teasdale, Thomson, Tillhof, Titus, Tobener, Toll, Tomb, Twichell, Twitchell, Vanderslice, Van Horn, Van Noy, Van Vleck, Velie, Vivian, Vliet, Waddell, Waldron, Walker, Walton, Warneke, Washburn, Webb, Weber, West, Wherrett, White, Whitney, Williams, Wollaston, Woods, Woodstock, Wright, Yates, Yost
BIOGRAPHICAL - VOL. 3
Abernathy, Adams, Adsit, Ahern, Aikins, Alexander, Anderson, Antill, Armour, Ashley, Austin, Avery, Baker, Barzen, Bayles, Beardsley, Becker, Benz, Betterman, Beverforden, Blossom, Boob, Boone, Bontecou, Botsford, Bowles, Boyer, Bray, Breitag, Brent, Bridge, Brooke, Brown, Browne, Bruening, Brumback, Bryan, Bryant, Bullene, Bunting, Burgin, Burnet, Burnham, Burts, Busch, Case, Chapeze, Chase, Cheek, Cheney, Clarke, Coffin, Coleman, Colton, Conover, Coon, Corbin, Crabbs, Creager, Croysdale, Culp, Cunningham, Curry, Dana, Danielson, Davis, Davison, Dean, Denslow, Deveney, Dickinson, Dickson, Dillon, Doggett, Douglass, Duke, Dunn, Dusky, Dyer, Edwards, Elliott, Engelhard, Ennis, Ewins, Faeth, Faxon, Fielding, Flaugh, Fleming, Flowerree, Fox, Fradenburg, Fratt, Freeman, Fuller, Furgason, Gifford, Gilday, Giles, Girardey, Gleisner, Glover, Goldsby, Good, Goodrich, Graves, Gray, Green, Greenlease, Grieb, Groff, Guild, Hackett, Haldeman, Hall, Hallett, Halliwell, Halsey, Hardacre, Harkless, Harmon, Hartman, Harwood, Hayde, Hayes, Hector, Heinz, Heite, Heslip, Hilderbran, Hinchman, Hocker, Hoefer, Hoelzel, Hoffman, Hofsess, Hollinger, Holmes, Horigan, Hucke, Hughes, Hunter, Huston, Hutchison, Jackson, Jennings, Jones, Kaempff, Kelley, Kelly, Kennedy, Kent, Ketner, Kiersted, Kinsley, Kirn, Kissenger, Knepp, Koehler, Kramer, Krames, Lambader, Lampkin, Landes, Lang, Lee, Lentell, Levy, Lieben, Lindberg, Lockridge, Lumpkin, Lyons, McClelland, McCune, McCutcheon, McElroy, McGervey, McKenzie, McKinley, McLaughlin, McMillen, McQueeny, Mann, Marley, Massie, Mastin, Maxwell, Meier, Middlebrook, Middleton, Milburn, Mohrie, Moll, Monk, Moore, Moorhead, Morgan, Morledge, Morr, Morrow, Moss, Mott, Muir, Mumford, Myers, Nead, Nearing, Nelson, New, Newhouse, Hichols, Norman, Norris, Nottberg, Nuckols, Ohaus, Orr, Park, Patterson, Pattison, Pelletier, Phelan, Pipes, Porter, Porterfield, Powers, Prather, Prescott, Prewitt, Price, Prince, Pringle, Race, Ragan, Raichley, Rankin, Rea, Reed, Richards, Richardson, Rickey, Rider, Ridge, Rigby, Ringolsky, Robinson, Rock, Root, Sanders, Sass, Sauer, Scarritt, Schnier, Schoen, Scofield, Seddon, Shackleford, Shryock, Simms, Simpson, Sloan, Slover, Smith, Snow, Snyder, Spaar, Sparks, Speas, Sternberger, Stevenson, Stewart, Stiles, Stilwell, Stone, Stout, Stubenrauch, Sutter, Swofford, Taylor, Thomas, Thomes, Thomson, Titchenal, Tomlinson, Toohey, Topping, Tourtellot, Townley, Trickett, Tripp, Tufts, Underwood, Van Closter, Vaughan, Vrooman, Wade, Walker, Wallace, Wallis, Walton, Ward, Warner, Weber, Wedding, Wheelock, White, Whitehead, Whitlock, Whitney, Whitsett, Wible, Wibracht, Wickes, Williams, Wilson, Winningham, Winter, Withers, Wittich, Wofford, Wood, Woods, Woodward, Woolf, Wornall, Zentner, Zumbrunn
