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Title
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Past Times: The Other Pendergast
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about James Francis Pendergast, or Big Jim Pendergast (1856-1911), "founder of the Pendergast dynasty" and First Ward City Council member in Kansas City. Description of his life and career as a native of Ohio moving with his family to Saint Joseph, Missouri, and then to Kansas City in 1876 as an iron worker before winning a large amount of money "on a racehorse named Climax" in 1881 and buying "a saloon and hotel, his springboard to prominence" in city politics. Noted for both his "virtues" (financial support of poor and distressed people and political support of the park and boulevard system and Union Station, etc.) and "vices" (associations with saloons and gambling, etc.), with a memorial statue of him "by Missouri-born sculptor Frederick Hibbard. ..placed in Mulkey Square Park at 12th Street and Kersey Coates Drive," later relocated in 1990 to "Case Park on Quality Hill, overlooking the West Bottoms."
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Date
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1992-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
