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Title: Grinter Place
Description: Information about the Grinter place, or Grinter house, built in 1857 just north of the Kansas River in Kansas City, Kansas, by Moses Grinter (1809-1878) and his wife Anna Grinter (1820-1905). Illustrations and description of the house and Moses, called the first permanent white settler of Wyandotte County, Kansas, building his first cabin and starting his ferry service about 1831 there.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Historic Spots or Mile-Stones in the Progress of Wyandotte County, Kansas
Description: Description of Grinter's ferry across the Kansas River used for Fort Leavenworth, established in 1831 by the family of Moses Grinter, the "first permanent white settler" in Wyandotte County, Kansas, with photos.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: Biography of Moses Grinter (1810-1878) and Anna Marshall Grinter (1820-1905), Pioneers
Date: 1999
Object Type: Biography

Title: The Delaware Indians in Kansas--1829-1867
Description: Description of the Grinter Ferry (with description of its founder in 1831, Moses Grinter, as "the first permanent resident of the [Wyandotte County, Kansas] locality") also called the Secondine Ferry or the Delaware Agency Crossing, in a discussion about the removal of the Delaware Indians across the Kansas River in 1831.
Date: 1955-09
Object Type: Magazine Article