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Title: Map of The Old Santa Fé Trail from Old Franklin, MO to Santa Fé, N M
Description: Map of the Santa Fé Trail. In upper left corner, "Compiled and issued by Mrs. John Van Brunt, Santa Fé Trail Committee, Kansas City Chapter" [of the Daughters of the American Revolution].
Date: 1909
Object Type: Map

Title: Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
Description: Description of Belton, Missouri, banker Josiah Newton Hargis, or Josiah Hargis (1820-1881), his family, and their home, the Hargis House, the "oldest house in the town of Lee's Summit, Missouri," occupied by them from 1859 to 1869 except from 1863 to 1865 during Order Number 11.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

Title: Bridges Cemetery
Description: Description of location and persons interred at the Bridges Cemetery in the Sni-a-Bar Township of Jackson County, Missouri. Research gathered in 1979 by Ms. Karol Witthar of Blue Springs Historical Society indicates the Bridges Cemetery had been destroyed in 1959-1960. The disposition of the bodies and stones were unknown. Located at Liggett Road, a quarter mile west of Highway 7, it was a cornfield in 1979.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

Title: Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
Description: Mention of the death of Christiana McCoy in 1850, a former member of the Big Blue Baptist Church and wife of Reverend Isaac McCoy.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

Title: Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
Description: Burial ground at Missouri and Independence Avenues donated by the "Old Town company" in 1837 with William M. Chick as the second interment in 1847.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

Title: Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
Description: History of the Highland Academy in Hickman Mills, Missouri, organized in 1845 by Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Johnson from Virginia. Description of the school operation by Mrs. Johnson after Mr. Johnson's death, with the help of slaves, prior to its burning at the beginning of the Civil War.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

Title: Dr. Johnston Lykins
Description: Biographical sketch of Dr. Johnston Lykins (1800-1876), the first legal mayor of Kansas City, first postmaster of Westport (out of the Shawnee Mission), and first editor and publisher of a newspaper entirely in Indian language. Description of his life and career as a native of Virginia and Baptist missionary coming to Kansas City about 1830, "edit[ing] the 'Siwinowe Kesibwi' (Shawnee Sun), the first newspaper to be published exclusively in an Indian dialect." Also an intermittent doctor, real estate developer starting in 1856 with the Lykins Addition, and president of Mechanics Bank in 1859 after his mayorship.
Date: 1905-04-17
Object Type: Book

Title: Soldiers Buried in Kansas City, Missouri: Revolutionary War Through Korean War
Description: Lists with brief descriptions of war veterans buried in Kansas City starting with the first American war, the Revolutionary.
Date: 1953
Object Type: Book

Title: In the Baggage Coach Ahead
Description: Description of a how the poem and song came to be written by Gussie L. Davis inspired by a remark made by 19th- century physician, Dr. James Watson.
Date: 1905-04-17
Object Type: Book

Title: Vital Historical Records of Jackson County, Missouri, 1826-1876
Description: One page history of Highland Academy in Hickman Mills, Jackson County, Missouri, organized in 1845 by Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Johnson. Description of its success as a school with several slave workers until the Civil War.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Book

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