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Title: Old Westport Landing
Description: Autobiographical article about Father Bernard Donnelly's (a reprint from the Kansas City Journal of Commerce from January 1, 1876) experiences on arriving in Independence and Westport Landing (later Kansas City) in 1845. Description of various Santa Fe traders and other citizens and anecdotes about them back to the 1840 murder of Don Antonio Chavez by a "certain Dr. Fontenelle."
Date: 2001
Object Type: Magazine Article

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: A Rebel Child of Civil War Days: Frances M. Lipscomb Hickman
Description: Biographical article about Frances M. Lipscomb Hickman, or Frances Hickman "of Independence," granddaughter of John Harris (of the Harris House hotel in Westport). Born "a mile south of Dallas, Missouri," in 1847 and growing up in Civil War Westport with her uncles Charles Kearney and William Bernard before marrying William Hickman, "the son of Edwin A. Hickman, who established the mill known as Hickman's Mill."
Date: 2001-04
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Twyman, a Legendary Name in Jackson County
Description: Photos, illustrations, map, and biographical article about the Twyman family of physicians of Jackson County, starting with Dr. Leo Twyman (1797-1872), a native of Kentucky moving to Saint Charles in 1827 and then Westport in 1844 and Independence in 1845. Description of his son Dr. Lyddall Twyman (1825-1902), son-in-law of Judge Richard Fristoe, and other later Twymans.
Date: 1995
Object Type: Magazine Article

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

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