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Title
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Biography of C. M. Hayman
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Description
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Photo and short biography of C. M. Hayman, or Clarence Hayman, president of Forum Cafeterias of America, Incorporated, born in the early 1880s and moving from Iowa to Kansas City with his family around 1890 to Walnut Grove at 75th and Mission Roads. Description of his career, starting out as stable boy for William Rockhill Nelson and opening his first restaurant at 619 East 12th Street in 1911, and later others at 315 East 12th Street, the first under the Forum name at 707 East 12th Street (Forum Lunch), and then 1125 Grand Avenue, 810 Grand Avenue, 2016 Main Street, 1220 Grand Avenue in 1921 - his first big, ground floor cafeteria, eventually becoming a chain of restaurants.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Description
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Photo and bio of Benjamin Foster, "lumberman" and president of the Foster Lumber Company in Kansas City. He was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1863 and moved to Randolph, Kansas, with his father, the founder of the company, before becoming a partner and relocating to Kansas City in 1889.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Description
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Photo and bio of Harry Darby (1895-1987), a national senator from Kansas and native of Kansas City, Kansas, starting out "in 1911 as a helper, mechanic, boilermaker, and structural iron worker with the Missouri Boiler Works Co." and becoming president of the company whose name he changed to the Darby Corporation. During World War II he manufactured numerous ocean-going ships for the federal government, and in December, 1949 was appointed United States senator. He was also elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Westerners by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame through his activity with the American Royal and work toward the creation of the Agricultural Hall of Fame in Bonner Springs, Kansas.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Current Biography: Who's News and Why
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Description
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Photo and bio of Howard Cowden, "founder, general manager, and president of the Consumers Cooperative Association" at 318 East 10th Street in Kansas City. He was born in Polk County, Missouri, in 1893 and started out as a teacher before entering the agricultural industry about the time of World War I, starting his agribusiness association "in Kansas City in 1929 as a small oil purchasing and distributing medium," but growing into a large and powerful organization, and resing at "R. F. D. 4, Kansas City, Mo."
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Largely a biographical sketch of Nichols's youth and how his energetic personality carried over later in business.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
