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Title
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Union Cemetery
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Description
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Mention of the burial sites of George Caleb Bingham, "Kansas City's first artist, a man of national renown," missionary Dr. Johnston Lykins, and wife of both, Mrs. George C. (Mattie) Bingham, at Union Cemetery.
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Date
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1922-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Looking Backward
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Description
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Descriptions of Mrs. Johnston Lykins, or Mattie Lykins, "a talented and accomplished woman for those days and a writer of short stories," also later the wife of artist George Caleb Bingham. Description of her founding of "a home for Confederate orphans" at 32nd and Locust Streets.
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Date
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1922-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Commonwealth of Missouri; A Centennial Record
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Description
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Biographical sketch of Martha A. "Mattie" Lykins, or Mattie Lykins, the wife of Dr. Johnston Lykins and later wife of artist George Caleb Bingham. Description of her life up to 1877, born in 1824 in Kentucky as Martha A. Livingston, marrying Dr. Lykins in Lexington, Missouri, in 1851, moving to Kansas City after spending time during the Civil War in Washington, D. C., and then superintending a Sunday school, founding "the Widows' and orphans' Home Society" in 1866, presiding over it until its end in 1874.
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Date
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1877
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Mattie Lykins Bingham
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Description
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George Caleb Bingham married Mattie Lykins, the widow of Johnston Lykins, on June 18, 1878. It was a short lived marriage as he died on July 7, 1879, in Kansas City, Missouri. Chapter details the couple's life during his final year.
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Date
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1905-06-27
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Object Type
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Book
