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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of William Kemp, mayor of Kansas City and a former teacher and school superintendent, growing up in La Monte, Missouri, and Warrensburg, Missouri. Also involved in the clean-up campaign in Kansas City politics in the 1930s as "an appellate judge" and "city counselor."
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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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City Market Vendors
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Description
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Interior view of customers and vendors at stalls in the City Market, looking east. Venders include Palermo & Arcuri, Joe Cipolla, Joe Lombardo, Joyce Meat, etc.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of Nathan Thomas Veatch, or Tom Veatch, partner in the engineering firm of Black & Veatch (his partner E. B. Black dying in 1949) with offices on the Country Club Plaza. Born in Illinois in 1886 and coming to Kansas City in the 1910s as a civil engineer partnering with Black and building military camps for World War II, etc.
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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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Photo and bio of Judge Albert Reeves, chief judge of the Western District of Missouri in Kansas City. Born near Steelville, Missouri in 1873 and coming to Kansas City in 1913 as a lawyer before being appointed federal judge in 1923 for western Missouri and becoming involved in the various court cases against the local Pendergast machine, etc.
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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 Genealogy & History of the White Cloud Family
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Description
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Photos, portraits, and biographical article about various members of the White Cloud family of Iowa Indians of the Saint Joseph, Missouri area since their emigration to the area in the 1700s and including events on the Nodaway River in the early 1800s, etc.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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Photo and bio of Ernest Howard, co-founder and executive of the engineering firm of Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff. Description of his life, born in Toronto in 1880 and coming to Kansas City in the early 1900s as a civil engineer, overseeing the construction of the Intercity Viaduct and numerous bridges around the United States and Canada, etc., with residence at 5708 State Line Road.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
