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Title: Report of the Kansas City Stock Yards for 1882
Description: This report, made by E. E. Richardson, Secretary, shows the receipts at the yards for the year to have been as follows: Cattle, 439,671; Hogs, 963,036; Sheep, 80,724; Horses and Mules, 11,716. ..Grand total [in receipts] 7,926,230.
Date: 1883-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Engineering--Sanitary Engineering in Kansas City
Description: Detailed description about improvements on the sewer works in the city with locations of new drainage systems and potential health hazards and costs.
Date: 1880-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Major B. F. Jones, or Benjamin Jones, "secretary and general manager" of "the water-works in Kansas City," born in Georgia in 1831 and coming here about 1875 as a Civil War veteran.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Biographical sketch of G. W. Pearsons, "assistant city engineer of Kansas City." Born in 1833 and coming here about 1873 as "chief engineer of the Kansas City Water Works."
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Photo and bio of Captain William Weston, a lime and cement dealer with residence at Independence and Maple Avenues. Born in Pennsylvania in 1832 and coming to Kansas City about 1865 as a bricklayer and Union Civil War veteran "establish[ing the lime works on five acres of land in the Guinnotte tract [sic]" in 1866 and then becoming city treasurer in 1874.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Photo and bio of Thomas Scott, a real estate developer and builder. Born in Canada in 1854 and coming to Kansas City in 1870 as a builder, constructing "the Riverview bridge," co-organizing the incorporation of Kansas City, Kansas, and co-founding the Kansas City Cement Works Company.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Biographical sketch of Howard Holden, an executive and cashier of the First National Bank of Kansas City, born in Massachusetts in 1837 and coming to Kansas City in 1866. Also president of the Excelsior Springs Company and former president of the Board of Trade and "one of the originators of the first water works company."
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Charles Brockett, or C. A. Brockett, founder of the Kansas City Frear Stone and Pipe Manufacturing Company after arriving in Kansas City in 1873 from Connecticut and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the business's name changed later to the C. A. Brockett Cement Company, also engaged with the Kansas City Cement Works Company and the American National Bank of Kansas City.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: Nehemiah Holmes
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Nehemiah Holmes (1826-1873), called the father of the street railroads of Kansas City, born in New York and arriving here in 1856 as an engineer and banker, investing in real estate and organizing the Kansas City & Westport Horse Railroad starting in 1868, Kansas City's first street railway system.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book Section

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Abiather Chadwick, "one of the best known and most widely respected men connected with Kansas City's real estate interest," originally from New York, working "in the hardware trade at Des Moines," Iowa, before moving after 1877 to Kansas City and engaging "in the real estate trade, under the firm name A. Chadwick & Co.," changing to Chadwick & Woolworth in 1885 and to Chadwick, Woodworth & Company in 1887.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Portrait and biographical sketch of Thomas Bryant, a Missouri state senator arriving in Kansas City in 1867 from Kentucky and Independence, elected to office in 1880, with descriptions of his legislative work.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: Editorial Notes - The Telephone in Early Kansas City
Description: From the article: "Mr. J. A. Hamblett has been...exhibiting the workings of the telephone...and has very successfully transmited [sic] oral messages between the Exposition grounds, the Coates House and the Western Union Telegraph office...It has been adopted in several of the Eastern cities...and doubtless will become a much valued labor-saving machine."
Date: 1877-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Andrew French
Description: Biographical sketch of Andrew French, "president of the French Commission Company." He was born in Cooper County, Missouri, in 1844, and came to Kansas City in 1868 "as assistant editor of the 'Kansas City Commercial Advertiser,' a Democratic daily paper," going on to work as a journalist at the Kansas City Times, the Kansas City Evening News, and the Kansas City Evening Mail, before entering the grocery and grain business in the 1870s, "under the firm name of French Brothers" in 1876 and after 1886 called the French Commission Company.
Date: 1888
Object Type: Book

Title: Scientific Miscellany: Kansas City Industries
Description: Mention of the manufacturer of "all kinds of wrought iron work, garden fences, cresting, girders, anchors, gratings, etc."
Date: 1881-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

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