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Title
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John Richards, Harware Store Merchant
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Description
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Photo and bio of John Richards, early "hardware merchant" in Kansas City. Born in Virginia in 1834 and moving to Missouri in the early 1850s as a hardware store employee (at Sibley and Saint Louis) before starting his own hardware company in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1857 and moving it to Kansas City in 1875 at 5th and Delaware Streets.
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Date
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1901
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Richards Field, First Kansas City Commercial Airport
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Description
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Photos and history of the first Richards Field, established in 1922 as Kansas City's first commercial airport by Major Howard Wehrle, Fred Harvey, Simpson Yeomans, Roger Crittenden, and Robert Lester, and named for Lieutenant John Richards II, a fellow Kansas Citian pilot killed in World War I. Description of the airport's becoming obsolete for "modern" airplanes of the late 1920s and being replaced by an airport in 1927 closer to downtown Kansas City, "first known as New Richards Field and then Municipal Airport," and later as Downtown Airport.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
