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Title: Westport Church Uses Resources to Partner with Community
Description: First Covenant Evangelical Church at 1501 W. 42nd Street was established in 1887 as a Swedish Evangelical Misdsion Church. By 1992, when Pastor Kevin David arrived, its membership had dwindled. Today, the building has been refurbished, membership is up, and a variety of community programs are based in the Church.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Short biography of John C. McCoy (1811-1889) written by Shirl Kasper. McCoy founded the town of Westport and was prominent in the history of early Kansas City.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Dictionary of Missouri Biography
Description: Biography of John Finis Philips (1834-1919), a notable lawyer, federal judge, and Battle of Westport veteran, involved in many important business law cases in the late 1800s for the Western District of Missouri.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: Frederick Lyman Lee II, October 7, 1935-December 29, 1998
Description: Obituary for Frederick Lyman Lee II, or Fred Lee (1935-1998), a historical writer and native of Kansas City. Details of his life and career, starting as a writer in 1961 after service in the military, then becoming president of the Westport Historical Society, etc., engaged in the restoration of the Harris-Kearney Home and Fort Osage and in the creation of Pioneer Park at Broadway and Westport Roads.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Immanuel Lutheran Celebrates 100 Years with Displays And Events
Description: Immanual Lutheran Church, 1700 Westport Road, is celebrating its centennial. Chartered January 4, 1899 by a group of Swedish immigrants, the congregation built its current structure in 1928 after selling its former church at 23rd and Madison to the congregation of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Newsletter Article

Title: Kansas City: An American Story
Description: Chapter of the book about the early settlement of the Town of Kansas with the aid of the Santa Fe, Oregon, and other major overland trails leading west, with many maps, diagrams, and photos. Highlights the roles of the McCoy family in the settling and merging of Kansas City and Westport.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book

Title: First Airplanes in Kansas City
Description: Description of the "first successful aeroplane designed and built in Kansas City and its initial flight" on August 26, 1910, flown by "J. C. McCallum, inventor and builder of the machine." On same page a description of a 1909 flight "in the Westport fire station back yard" of an airplane invented by architect Edgar Faris and Frank Marvin, both of Kansas City.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Gone But Not Forgotten [Etc.]
Description: Article includes excerpt of John Campbell's obituary as well as a photo of both John and Charlotte Campbell. Also a listing for their children and a reprint from the Kansas City Star, June 4, 1950.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Opening the Western Frontier: Rev. Thomas Johnson & the Shawnee Indian Mission [and associated articles]
Description: Article about the Methodist Shawnee Indian Missions in the 1830s near Turner, Kansas, and Westport, Missouri, and the family of missionary Reverend Thomas Johnson (1802-1865), with photos, maps, and illustrations. Description of Thomas Johnson, a native of Virginia and Methodist minister "appointed missionary to the Shawnee Indians" (his brother William Johnson appointed to the Kansas and Delaware Indians), arriving in Kansas and building the first mission building in 1830, killed at his home at 35th and Agnes Avenues in Kansas City "by parties unknown."
Date: 1999
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Shawnee Mission Northwest High School Yearbook - Lair
Description: Yearbook for the 1999 class of Shawnee Mission Northwest High School.
Date: 1999
Object Type: Yearbook

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