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Title: Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908
Description: Photo and bio of James Greenwood, "author, educator, and lecturer," who was born in Illinois in 1837 and started out as a teacher before coming to Kansas City in 1874 as superintendent of the Kansas City School District, writing many articles and books on mathematics and education.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: Board of Education (The), [Super]intendents and Twenty-Four of the Principals of Public Schools
Description: Severely damaged composite of portrait photographs of members of the Kansas City Board of Education and principals. Item is incomplete; source of publication unknown. Portraits include: Benson, W. E., Secretary, Board of Education; Betz, Carl, Superintendent of Physical Culture; Buchanan, J. T., Principal, High School; Buchanan, Elizabeth, Principal, Bryant School; Cammack, I. I., Principal, Lathrop School; Davis, J. C., Principal, Benton School; Faxon, F. A., Member, Board of Education; Greenwood, J. M., Superintendent of Schools; James, J. C., Member, Board of Education; Jaudon, Thos P., Principal, Madison School; Karnes, J. V. C., Vice President, Board of Education; Kinkead, R. G., Principal, Irving School; Lockett, Emma J., Principal, Linwood School; McNeill, I. C., Assistant Superintendent of Schools; Martin, E. L., Member, Board of Education; Norman, J. L., Member, Board of Education; Ridgeway, W. C., Principal, Jackson School; Shelton, U. M., Principal, Franklin School; Swinney, E. F., Treasurer, Board of Education; Thompson, C. W., Principal, Garfield School; Threlkeld, Sallie, Principal, Emerson School; Wardner, A. E., Principal, Longfellow School; White, E. C., Vice Principal, High School; Williams, W. H., Principal, Chase School; Woodward, Wilhemine, Principal, Karnes School; Yeager, R. L., President, Board of Education.
Date: 1895-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Teachers to Whom the Young Look
Description: Photo portraits and brief biographies of important local educators: (1) Barnard, J. U.; (2) Cottingham, J. M.; (3) Berry, W. H.; (4) Dillenbeck, Preston; (5) Biggs, L. Kate; (6) DuBois, H. E.; (7) Brua, Elizabeth; (8) Faxon, Frank A.; (9) Buchanan, Elizabeth; (10) Edmondson, Gertrude; (11) Cammack, Ira I.; (12) Green, Gertrude; (13) Greenwood, J. M.; (14) Martin, W. H.; (15) Harrison, J. Scott; (16) Norman, J. L.; (17) James, J. C.; (18) Morrison, Gilbert B., (19) Hawkins, W. J.; (20) Reese, Ida M.; (21) Jaudon, Thomas P.; (21) Tharpe, F. D.; (22) Lathrop, Gardiner; (23) Reynolds, C. P.; (24) Lockett, Emma J.; (26) Richards, S. E.; (27) Longan, G. B.; (28) Ridgeway, W. C.; (29) Longshore, William T.; (30) Threlkeld, Sallie; (31) Rader, L. W.; and (31) Parker, Charles S.
Date: 1900-01-01
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Greenwood Donation to Kansas City Public Library
Description: The donation (1918) of the library of James Greenwood by his heirs to the Kansas City Public Library, consisting of more than 2,000 volumes, primarily nineteenth-century mathematics textbooks, is noted in a column called "Forty Years Ago: From the Files of November 8, 1918."
Date: 1958-11-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: James M. Greenwood
Description: Head and shoulders portrait.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Prominent Kansas Citians
Description: Composite view; left to right: Theodore S. Case, Bishop Edward R. Atwell, J.M. Greenwood, Edwin C. Meservey, Hiram M. Northrup, William A. Rule, Edward F. Sweeney, A.A. Tomlinson.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Kansas Citians
Description: Composite view; left to right: Andrew Young, J. M. Greenwood, Judge H. L. McCune, Walter McLucas, J. B. Reynold, and Edwin C. Meservey.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Board of Education from 1867 to 1895, Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Unframed composite of round portrait photographs of members of the Board of Education of the Kansas City School District from 1867 to 1895. E. H. Allen (1867-1869); Frank Askew (1879-1886); J. A. Bachman (1867-1869); A. A. Bainbridge (1867-1869); W. E. Benson, Secretary (1880-1895); X. X. Buckner (1871-1872); C. A. Chase (1873-1884); James Craig (1869-1879); F. A. Faxon (1894-1895); Joseph Feld (1870-1872); J. M. Greenwood, Superintendent (1874-1895); T. K. Hanna (1872-1874); R. H. Hunt (1874-1878); J. C. James (1884-1895); J. V. C. Karnes, Vice President (1869-1882 and 1893-1895); H. C. Kumpf (1867, 1880-1890); Gardiner Lathrop (1882-1893); T. B. Lester (1867-1870); E. L. Martin (1875-1895); J. L. Norman (1887-1895); H. R. Seeger (1871-1873); W. E. Sheffield (1867-1872); E. H. Spalding (1867); E. F. Swinney, Treasurer (1894-1895); Henry Switzer (1875-1880); L. K. Thacher (1890-1894); Henry Tobener (1869-1870); H. A. White (1873-1875); and R. L. Yeager, President (1879-1895).
Date: 1896~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Board of Directors, Officers, and Heads of Departments of The School District of Kansas City, Mo.
Description: Damaged composite of portrait photographs of Kansas City School District personnel. At least one photo (Wm. T. Bland) is missing; others are loose. Portraits include Brady, J. H., Chief Engineer; Cammack, I. I., Asst. Superintendent.; Casey, Frank S., Purchasing Agent; Cook, Hale H.; Faxon, Frank A., President; Greenwood, J. M., Superintendent.; Harrison, J. S.; Jackson, J. B. Jr., Secretary; Ladd, Sanford B., Counsel; McCune, Henry L.; Moore, Milton, Vice President; Smith, Charles, A., Architect; Swinney, E. F., Treasurer; Tharpe, F. D., Asst. Superintendent; Wright, Purd B., Librarian.
Date: 1912-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Biography of James M. Greenwood (1837-1914), School Superintendent
Date: 2003
Object Type: Biography

Title: SC86-2 Josephine Woodbury Heermans Greenwood Papers Finding Aid
Description: Josephine Woodbury Heermans Greenwood was born in Michigan on Christmas Day 1859. She became an employee of the Kansas City School District in 1888 and was principal of Whittier School between 1891-1910. She and James Greenwood, Superintendent of the Kansas City School District, were married from 1910 until his death in 1914. Mrs. Greenwood remained in Kansas City, well known as a Christian Science practitioner. She died in Massachusetts on October 13, 1928, and is buried in Mount Washington Cemetery in Independence, Missouri.

The collection contains primarily correspondence of a personal nature with over 425 letters covering parts of two centuries with the bulk dated between 1890 to 1914. Other items include tributes to James M. Greenwood after his death, a few newspaper clippings as well as some ephemeral material. The majority of the correspondence is between Josephine Heermans [Greenwood] and James M. Greenwood, as well as between Josephine and her various relatives.
Date: 1846/1928
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Colonel Robert T. Van Horn: His Life and Public Service
Description: Description of the introduction of the article's author, James Greenwood, to Colonel Robert Van Horn in 1874 Kansas City by lawyer J. V. C. Karnes, or Joseph Karnes, at the Kansas City Journal of Commerce newspaper building on 5th Street between Main and Delaware Streets.
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Missouri Verse and Verse-Writers
Description: Mention of James Greenwood as "well known in the United States for his writings on educational subjects" while in Kirksville, Missouri."
Date: 1924~
Object Type: Book

Title: Colonel Robert T. Van Horn: His Life and Public Service
Description: Footnote about the author of the article, James Greenwood (1837-1914), "Superintendent of the Kansas City school system for thirty-nine years (1874-1913)," a native of Illinois dying in Kansas City. Description of his career, turning from law to teaching after the Civil War and founding the Greenwood Club, and listing his surviving family members in Kansas City--"the widow, Mrs. Josephine Heermans Greenwood [or Josephine Greenwood], and a daughter, Mrs. Ada G. MacLaughlin [or Ada MacLaughlin] and her two sons, Thomas and Joseph MacLaughlin."
Date: 1924-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: SC86-1 James M. Greenwood Papers Finding Aid
Description: James M. Greenwood was the leading educator in Kansas City for 40 years (1874-1914). In his tenure as superintendent of schools, he became recognized locally, nationally, and internationally. He was born in Illinois on November 15, 1837, and died at his desk on August 1, 1914. Greenwood's papers include correspondence primarily sent to Greenwood (1891-1917); reports and speeches (1906-1913); an unpublished manuscript on the history of Missouri; personal journals (1910, 1914); notebook kept by Mrs. Greenwood (1892-1896); and miscellaneous, primarily personal items. These papers cover the middle to late part of Mr. Greenwood's tenure as Superintendent of the Kansas City School District. A few published items are included but the bulk of the collection is handwritten or typewritten. Mr. Greenwood's interest in mathematics is evident as a subject of his speeches and outlines.
Date: 1891/1941
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: History of Adair County
Description: Photo and description of James Greenwood, or J. M. Greenwood (1837-1914), long-time school superintendent of Kansas City, raised in Missouri and about 1852 "living somewhere on the prairies of Adair County between Kirksville and the east line of the county," becoming a "professor of mathematics" in Kirksville, Missouri, before coming to Kansas City.
Date: 1911
Object Type: Book

Title: Men Who Are Making Kansas City: A Biographical Dictionary
Description: Photo and bio of James Greenwood, school superintendent of the Kansas City School District, born in Illinois in 1837 and moving to Missouri in 1852 as a teacher, arriving in Kansas City in 1874, becoming "president of the Missouri State Teachers' Association" and "writ[ing] and revis[ing] many textbooks, and contribut[ing] coiously to mathematical journals."
Date: 1902
Object Type: Book

Title: SC86-3 Ada Greenwood MacLaughlin Papers Finding Aid
Description: Ada Greenwood MacLaughlin, daughter of Kansas City School Superintendent James Greenwood and his wife Amanda, was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on August 1, 1860. She resided in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1874 until her marriage in 1881 to William MacLaughlin. She moved back to Kansas City from Illinois sometime after her husband's death in 1904 and taught history at Westport High School for many years. Mrs. MacLaughlin was a genealogist and local history enthusiast. She died in Kansas City on May 31, 1935. Items in the collection include: a scrapbook, posters, charts, certificates, lecture notes and outlines, genealogy items, newspaper clippings, journals/daybooks, poetry, photographs, convention buttons and badges, and other ephemeral items. Most of the dated material is between 1890-1916. Many items, such as lecture notes and papers as well as diary/journal/daybooks, appear to have belonged to Josephine Heermans Greenwood. Of particular interest are the journal books kept by Josephine between 1895-1907 when she was principal of Whittier School. She discusses school management and other education related matters, social obligations, religion, etc.
Date: 1870/1925~
Object Type: Finding Aid

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