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Jay H. Neff (1854–1915), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri and newspaperman [27] J. C. Nichols (1880–1950), real estate developer [ 28 ] Buck O'Neill (1911-2006), first baseman and manager in the Negro American League, first African American coach in Major League Baseball, played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum ...
Joy Bang – actress, born in Kansas City [8] Kay Barnes – mayor of Kansas City 1999–2007; Hector Barreto Sr. – activist and entrepreneur; H. Roe Bartle – mayor of Kansas City and namesake of Kansas City Chiefs; Lucas Bartlett – soccer player; Count Basie – jazz musician and bandleader; Noah Beery – actor; Wallace Beery – Oscar ...
It started as a weekly, The Kansas City Enterprise, on September 23, 1854, a year after the city's founding and shortly after The Public Ledger went out of business. Kansas City's first mayor, William S. Gregory, and future mayors Milton J. Payne and Elijah M. McGee, along with city fathers William Gillis, Benoist Troost, Thompson McDaniel, Robert Campbell and Kansas City's first bank and ...
Police were called to the 4100 block of NW 65th Street in Kansas City around 12:30 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 2, after a fourth victim escaped the home and knocked on the door of a neighbor who then called ...
There are 333 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Kansas City. Downtown Kansas City includes 149 of these properties and districts; the city's remaining properties and districts are the National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas City, Missouri. One historic district overlaps the downtown and non-downtown ...
Westport is a historic neighborhood and a main entertainment district in Kansas City, Missouri.. In the early 1800s, West Port was settled by a group led by American pioneer and tribal missionary Reverend Isaac McCoy, who brought his son John Calvin McCoy as surveyor, and his son-in-law Reverend Johnston Lykins who bought the land.
Bill Grigsby was born in Wellsville, Kansas, in 1922, the youngest of three sons of Harry Ludwell Grigsby and Elanore Amelia Grigsby.His father was a geologist, frequently unemployed during the Great Depression so the family moved to Lawrence, Kansas, when Bill was in third grade. [2]
The median age in the city was 37.5 years. 26.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.5% were from 25 to 44; 32.4% were from 45 to 64; and 11.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.0% male and 52.0% female.