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Title: Our Easley Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: Description of some early white settlements in 1825 near Chouteau's Trading Post, elaborating on several trail and later street locations, including those from Fort Osage.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Early Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: Description of the Bales family, early settlers of Jackson County, Missouri, highlighting Walter Bales, his wife Sarah Johnson Bales, and his son William Bales, from a 1903 interview of William and a biographical document about Walter, with descriptions of the Town of Kansas.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Easley Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: History of the McGee family of Kansas City, starting with James Hyatt McGee, or James McGee (1786-1840) and including his wife Eleanor Fry McGee, or Eleanor McGee (1793-18?), and their descendants.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Easley Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: Biographical description of Mobillon McGee, "the fourth child and third son of James Hyatt McGee, and his wife, Eleanor Fry McGee." Description of his life and career, born in Kentucky in 1817 and brought to Jackson County, Missouri, in 1828 by his parents, then entering the military in the 1840s, engaging in Indian trading in the 1850s near Lawrence, Kansas, and moving to California in 1883.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Easley Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: Excerpts from "Tales of an Old Timer" by John McCoy (1811-1889) mentioning Colonel Robert Patterson as an early settler of Kansas City in 1825 along with the Johnson family (including John Johnson, Robert Johnson, and Samuel Johnson, et al.). Description of Patterson's settling "at the Vogle [Vogel?] place on the State Line near Westport."
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Easley Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: Biographical description of Elijah Milton McGee, or E. Milton McGee (1819-1873), "the 5th child and 4th son of James Hyatt McGee, Sr., and his wife, Eleanor Fry McGee." Description of his life and career as a native of Kentucky brought to Kansas City in 1828 and becoming a western explorer and trader, entering the Seminole War in 1837 and joining General Fremont's 1842 expedition to the Rocky Mountains, then finding gold in California in 1849 and returning to Kansas City in 1851. Afterwards becoming a real estate developer with the plat of McGee's Addition in 1854 and making "Grand Avenue the widest street in the city," then being elected a Missouri state representative in 1862, Missouri state senator in 1865, and mayor of Kansas City in 1870. Also a story of his trip to the New York Stock Exchange to promote Kansas City and being written up on the front pages of the newspapers there around 1870.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

Title: Our Easley Ancestors and Their Relatives
Description: Information about the Johnson family of Kansas City, Missouri, starting with John Johnson (1770-1833), the half-brother of Christopher Mulkey, and Johnson's family, including his son James Johnson (1802-1867), arriving 'en masse' in Kansas City in 1825 by covered wagons after a stay at Fort Osage. Description of John Johnson as "a native of North Carolina, a typical pioneer frontiersman," camping first at about 14th and Waldron Avenues and later building a log cabin at 14th and Benton Boulevards. Biographical sketches also of Christopher Mulkey and his son William Mulkey (1822-1903), et al.
Date: 1963
Object Type: Book

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