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Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of the home of William Bernard built by himself "on the same tract of land" in Westport as Colonel A. G. Boone's home.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Reminiscences of 1830s and 1840s Westport, including some early and "first" settlers, residences, churches, marriages, etc., including the general lifestyle and a visit in 1838 from John A Sutter from his later successful California gold mine.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Mention of the wedding of Peter Behan to Ann Harris around 1840, "out in the country, on the present site of the Westport Junior High School."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of the Harris House Hotel and Yoacham Tavern in pioneer Westport as firsts of their kind there.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Memories of Old Westport
Description: Description of William Chick as the city's first postmaster and one paragraph about possibly the first "brick house. ..built before 1836, as Colonel William Miles Chick, who moved to the county in that year occupied it as his first residence here," with Albert Boone's house "about a block to the north." Same site "later known as the Alex Waskey farm."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The First Baptist Church of Westport
Description: Mention of the First Baptist Church of Westport in a description of its merging with another church.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Child's Recollections of the Battle of Old Westport
Description: Childhood recollections of the author (Mrs. Bridget Dixon Turgeon, or Bridget Turgeon) from the Battle of Westport in the Civil War from her father's (Hugh Dixon) grocery store at "4056 Penn Street" or Pennsylvania Avenue, bought from "Uncle Tommie Johnson."
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Journey to Missouri in 1822
Description: Mention of James Hunter as proprietor of "a saddler's shop" in Westport during the late 1830s or early 1840s, at a time of no other "businesses houses" there except for "dram shops" and the store of William Chick on the future site of the Harris House.
Date: 1921-10-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Early Schools of Jackson County
Description: Two paragraphs about the "first" school in Westport and one of its teachers.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Vicissitudes of Pioneer Life
Description: Reminiscences of the author, the son of William M. Chick. Includes the busy 1830s trading environment of Westport, subsequent move and 1844 flood disaster in Kansas City, and later description of travels of the author in the late 1840s in and around Kansas City. Also mentions work on ferries and steamboats for fur traders and other early businesses and describes the 1849 gold rush and 1848-1849 cholera epidemic, etc.
Date: 1922-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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