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Title: Mr. & Mrs. Kersey Coates
Description: File contains biographical information about Kersey Coates (1823-1887), a prominent Kansas City promoter and developer, and his wife Sarah Chandler Coates(1829-1897), a prominent Kansas City suffragette.
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: The '81 Club
Description: The '81 Club recently celebrated its 125th anniversary with a dinner at the Kansas City Country Club. This women's club was founded by Sarah Coates and others to "associate themselves together for the purpose of mental improvement and the pursuit of a systematized course of study." The program for the evening was given by local historian Dory DeAngelo. Includes a photograph of the group.
Date: 2007-03-03
Object Type: Magazine

Title: SC199 ’81 Club Collection Finding Aid
Description: This collection includes meeting minutes, programs, scrapbooks and other materials relating to the ’81 Club, a Kansas City women’s club founded by Sarah Chandler Coates in 1881.
Date: 1886/2019
Object Type: Finding Aid

Title: Century-Old '81 Club Reveres Its Founder
Description: Biographical article about "Sarah Walter Chandler Coates, wife of Kersey Coates," and her founding of the '81 Club of Kansas City, a social club on Quality Hill, celebrating its centennial year, with photos.
Date: 1981
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Century-Old '81 Club Reveres Its Founder
Description: Celebration of the club's centennial and founder, Sarah Walter Chandler Coates, wife of Kersey Coates.
Date: 1981
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Civic Housekeepers And More
Description: A history of women's organizations and women civic leaders in Kansas City. Beginning the in the 1850s and continuing forward, women in Kansas City sought to form groups that addressed issues of education, charity, morality, reform, and equality. Organizations such as the Kansas City Athenaeum, the Women's City Club, and the Forward Kansas City Committee created an environment of female civic engagement and activism, playing a key role in overhauling the politically-corrupt city government in the elections of 1940.
Date: 2013-12
Object Type: Manuscript

Title: In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates
Description: Photos of the funeral monuments of Kersey Coates and his wife Sarah Walter Chandler Coates in Elmwood Cemetery in 1898.
Date: 1898~
Object Type: Book

Title: In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates
Description: Book interspersed with numerous photographs illustrating early Kansas City, including a photo of Sarah Walter Chandler Coates, or Sarah Coates, on the frontispiece.
Date: 1898~
Object Type: Book

Title: In Memoriam: Sarah Walter Chandler Coates
Description: Extract of a letter from Susan B. Anthony, or Susan Anthony, the pioneer feminist and suffragette, about her visits with Sarah W. C. Coates, or Sarah Coates in Kansas City in 1870 and 1896, dealing with the right to vote for women.
Date: 1898~
Object Type: Book

Title: Kansas City Women of Independent Minds
Description: Photo and bio of Sarah Chandler Coates, or Sarah Coates (1829-1897), a teacher from Pennsylvania who moved to Kansas City with her husband, Kersey, in the 1850s. She experienced border warfare troubles while moving to a house at 10th and Pennsylvania Avenue on what became Quality Hill, and was involved in many clubs and "almost every charitable effort in the city."
Date: 1992
Object Type: Book

Title: Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri: A Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference
Description: Biographical sketches of Kersey Coates (1823-1887) and his wife Sarah Walter Chandler Coates, or Sarah Coates (1829-1897), describing their lives and careers in the growth of Kansas City through promoting construction of railroads and buildings, etc., also including businesses such as Emery, Bird, Thayer and Company.
Date: 1901
Object Type: Book

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