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Title: Kansas City: Pictorial and Biographical
Description: Photo and bio of James Mickleborough Greenwood, or James Greenwood, "author, educator and lecturer," born in Illinois in 1837 and moving to Missouri in 1852 and to Kansas City in 1874 as superintendent of the public school system.
Date: 1908
Object Type: Book

Title: James M. Greenwood
Description: Information on James Greenwood (1837-1914), or J. M. Greenwood, prominent superintendent of the Kansas City School District from 1874 to 1913. Description of his career, elected superintendent in 1874 with the public library opened that year in his office, and succeeded about 1911 by I. I. Cammack. Selected as one of the ten "outstanding persons in the development of American education" by the National Educational Association after his death.
Object Type: Vertical File

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: Lest We Forget: James M. Greenwood, Missouri's Greatest Contribution to Public Education
Description: Photo and biographical article about "James Mickleborough Greenwood," or James Greenwood, superintendent of schools in Kansas City, a former mathematics teacher in Kirksville, Missouri, and native of Illinois becoming nationally prominent in educational administration and as a writer on educational issues.
Date: 1933-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men
Description: Biographical sketch of James Mickleborough Greenwood, or James Greenwood, school superintendent of Kansas City. Source states he was born in Illinois in 1836[1837] and came to Kansas City in 1874, becoming nationally known for his administration and writings about education.
Date: 1878
Object Type: Book

Title: James M. Greenwood
Description: Portrait of Kansas City School Superintendent James M. Greenwood.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Public School Leaders
Description: Photo and description of James Greenwood (1837-1914), Superintendent of Schools in Kansas City, Missouri, for more than a third of a century...the most prominent educational figure in the Missouri Valley.
Date: 1905-07-22
Object Type: Magazine 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: James M. Greenwood
Description: Folder includes invitation and commemorative program for the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Dr. James M. Greenwood, held at the Music Hall of the Municipal Auditorium, November 15, 1937. The vertical files in this collection were formerly a part of the department's regular vertical files.
Date: 1937
Object Type: Archival Material

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: An Experience in Helping Teachers Professionally
Description: Article about the teachers and schools in Kansas City, Saint Louis, and Saint Joseph, including issues of finance through tax levies.
Date: 1905-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

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

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