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In 1896, Julius Wayland moved to Girard from Kansas City, Missouri and brought with him his socialist periodical Appeal to Reason. [16] In 1900 he employed Fred Warren as his co-editor. Warren was a well-known figure on the left and managed to persuade some of America's leading progressives to contribute to the Appeal to Reason .
Baker was born in Girard, Kansas. Her parents divorced around 1905, and Edith moved to Kansas City, Missouri with her mother. From ages 8 to 14, Baker was educated at St. Mary's Convent in Independence, Missouri, receiving piano and voice lessons. [1] There are varying accounts of her musical development during her early teenage years.
Ruth Imogen Stout [1]: 2 was born June 14, 1884, [2] in Girard, Kansas, [3] the fifth child of Quaker parents John Wallace Stout and Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter Stout. [1]: 2, 35 Her younger brother Rex Stout, also an author, was famous for the Nero Wolfe detective stories.
Stanley Armour Dunham was born in Wichita, Kansas, the younger of two sons to Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham, Sr. (December 25, 1894 – October 4, 1970) and Ruth Lucille Armour (September 1, 1900 – November 25, 1926). [3] His father's ancestors settled in Kempton, Indiana, in the 1840s, before relocating to Kansas. [4]
Menninger was born on July 22, 1893, in Topeka, Kansas, the son of Florence Vesta (Kinsley) and Charles Frederick Menninger. In addition to studying at Washburn University, Indiana University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, he also studied medicine at Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the school cum laude in 1917. [1]
Eugene Gerber was born in Kingman, Kansas, to Cornelius and Lena (née Tiesmeyer) Gerber.The fourth of seven children, he had two brothers, Jerome and Larry, and four sisters, Kathleen, Helen, Leola, and Joan. [1]
9.2 Notable historical figures not from Kansas but who participated in a ... (1854–1912), newspaper editor, Appeal to Reason; Girard; William Allen White ...
Joseph Bernard Shannon was born on March 17, 1867, in St. Louis, Missouri, and moved in his youth to Girard, Kansas. [1] His father died in Girard from an accident. [2] He moved to Kansas City, Missouri, in 1879 where he was a constable and a city-market master, and he attended night school at Central High School and Spalding Business College.