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Title
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Kansas City's Mayors: Term Marked by Innovation
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Alexander Harris (~1820-1898), the ninth mayor of Kansas City holding office just after the Civil War. He approved the construction of the Hannibal Bridge and other growth of the city to the south, dying in 1898 at the age of 78.
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Date
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1975-01-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Alexander Harris
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Description
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Photo and bio of Alexander Harris (1820-1898), twice mayor of Kansas City in 1866 and in 1888, born "either in Kentucky or Tennessee" and keeping a saloon in Kansas City by the early 1850s "on Main Street between Commercial and the Levee," with "a residence at 4th and High Streets," later becoming mayor and then deputy sheriff and county judge, and in just before his second term as mayor, a "ticket agent for the Wyandot, Kansas City and Northwestern Railroad with offices at 531 Main Street, which later was at the Grand Avenue Depot."
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Date
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1968
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Fashionable Pearl Street
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Description
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Mention of Mrs. W. V. Lippincott as the sister of Mrs. John Moore and a daughter of "A. L. Harris, now dead, formerly mayor of this city and subsequently of Durango, Colorado," residing at 513 East 4th Street, in 1921 "the home of a prosperous Italian."
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Date
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1921-10-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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SC85 Charles S. Stevenson Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Charles S. Stevenson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1895, but grew up in Olathe, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. He worked at Hallmark Cards from the end of World War I until 1960. After retirement he became a free-lance writer for the Kansas City Star. He was very active in local social, civic, and military affairs. He died in 1985 in Kansas City, Missouri.<br><br> The collection provides information on the first 48 mayors of Kansas City, Missouri, serving the city between 1853-1971. The papers represent the files that Mr. Stevenson kept while he was writing a series of articles concerning Kansas City mayors which appeared in the Kansas City Star and Times in 1975-1976. Items found in the folders include rough drafts and final drafts of the articles, personal notes, photocopied newspaper clippings, and correspondence. The personal correspondence includes letters from relatives of some of the former mayors.
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Date
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1975/1976
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
