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Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the store "erected by Colonel Albert G. Boone" in Westport as the first brick building west of Independence.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of Sidney Cunningham and Ben Cunningham as "fine, good-looking boys" as pupils at the Westport School in the 1830s or 1840s, along with Will Waldo, Henry Waldo, and Joseph Bernard.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description and footnote about James Marshall, a Missourian and "the first to detect the shining gold particles in the mill-race."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the store built by Duke Simpson "at the southwest corner of the block directly opposite my father's [John McCoy's] store" on Westport Road in the mid-1800s.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of Nathan Scarritt as the author's teacher and uncle by way of marrying Matilda Chick.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Biographical sketch of Mary Ann Chick, or Mary Chick, "eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Chick," explaining her marriage first to "the Reverend William Johnson, an Indian missionary, at her parents' home in Howard County in 1834," and after his death in 1842, marrying "the Reverend J. Thompson Peery, after whose family, Peery street is named."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Portrait of John Calvin McCoy and mention of his father's [Isaac McCoy's] home "just north of the present [1924] St. Luke Hopital."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of Joab Bernard, Finis Ewing, Colonel Albert Boone, Duke Simpson, Edmund Price, and Allen McGee, as hosts to "'dining-days,'" social gatherings in antebellum Westport.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention and footnote about Hardin Steele, "a large farm-owner on the site of what is now Elmwood Cemetery" in the mid-1800s.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the assistance of Captain John Sutter at Westport in 1838 on his trip to California. Lending of a horse to him by John McCoy and one to his companion, "Wetler," by Allen McGee.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention and footnote about Billy Baldridge of Independence as the builder of John Sutter's "mill on the American River in California," the site of the first discovery of gold there in 1848. Baldridge also described as "an excellent mill-wright" building "for Joe Chiles a water-mill three miles southeast of the City on Brush Creek" some time before leaving for California in 1843.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Farms Owned by Isaac McCoy
Description: Mention of Dr. James Stone, "a pioneer Westport physician" buying the house of Reverend Isaac McCoy in Westport in 1842.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Old Time Religion
Description: Description of Captain Joseph Parks, "a hero of the Seminole War in Florida" in command of Shawnee Indians and "a notable attendant at these religious services at Shawnee Mission and Westport." Also portrait and description of Reverend Nathan Scarritt, an early minister of Westport.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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