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The Kansas City Star is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri.Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes.. The Star is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as the newspaper where a young Ernest Hemingway honed his writing style. [2]
He purchased the Kansas City Evening Mail and its Associated Press franchise in 1882 and started the Weekly Kansas City Star in 1890 and the Sunday Kansas City Star in 1894. [2] Nelson bought the Times in 1901, putting The Morning Kansas City Star on it. Nelson had portraits of Tilden, Grover Cleveland, and Theodore Roosevelt in his office.
Bruce Riley Watkins (March 20, 1924, Parkville, Missouri - September 13, 1980 Kansas City, Missouri) and his stepfather Theron B. Watkins (1877–1950) were prominent political and social activists in Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri.
Albert I. Beach (1883–1939), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri [6] Joseph Boggs (1749–1843), army officer, moved from Old Westport Cemetery in 1915 [ 7 ] Daniel Boone III (1809–1880), and Mary Constance Philibert Boone (1814–1904), early Kansas City founders who settled in the area that later became Forest Hill Cemetery [ 8 ]
He was born at 1734 Prospect Avenue in the 18th and Vine Jazz District of Kansas City, Missouri. He served in World War II as a crewmember on B-17 planes. [ 3 ] In 1946, he and nephew Frank Morgan (four years his junior) [ 4 ] formed a partnership Vic-Gene Manufacturing Inc. to sell women's wear to Kansas City, Missouri -area stores.
Marjorie Powell Allen (1929-1992) was an American philanthropist from Kansas City, Missouri who worked with the Powell Foundation. [1]Allen gave two day camps and a residential camp for children, but most notably she donated 809 acres of Powell family land that became Powell Botanical Gardens.