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Title
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Deaths: Mrs. Carey E. Harper
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Description
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Obituary for Mrs. Gertrude Harper, "80, of 350 East Armour boulevard," a lifelong Kansas Citian and "the daughter of L. S. C. Ladish, an early real estate developer here." Harper also the wife of Carey Harper, the maternal granddaughter of Colonel Milton Payne, "a pioneer mayor of Kansas City for five terms," and great-granddaughter of Gabriel Prudhomme, early owner of the Kansas City town site.
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Date
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1967-01-10
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Prudhomme Family
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Description
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Photocopy of the map and abstract of the title to the Gabriel Prudhomme estate land, split up following Gabriel's death in 1831 and partly apportioned to John Johnson (between 3rd, 4th, Cherry, and Holmes Streets).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Prudhomme Farm Map
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Description
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Illustrated map of "the Prudhomme farm, looking south from the river front," bounded by Broadway, Troost, and Independence Avenues and the Missouri River or 1st Street. Depiction of the land of the Town of Kansas formerly owned by Gabriel Prudhomme, showing the Hannibal Bridge, the Levee, "Karnes school," city hall, court house, and the "railways power plant."
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Date
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1928
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Kansas City's First Church
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Description
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Mention of the baptism in 1834 by Father Benedict Roux at the "first Catholic house of worship in Kansas City" of Adeline Prudhomme, "the daughter of Gabriel Prudhomme, original owner of the 'Townsite,' the initial point of this City at the Kaw's Mouth."
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Date
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1923-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Town of Kansas: Medley of Beginnings at Kawsmouth
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Description
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A 23 page paper read before the Kansas City Corral, The Westerners, Hotel Bellerive, December 10, 1957, dealing with the early history of Kansas City, concentrating on the period just before the Town of Kansas's incorporation in 1838 (by James McGee and other English speakers). Description of the riverfront area's first permanent European settlement by French speakers in the 1820s including Gabriel Prudhomme, buying a plat of 257 acres between Broadway, Holmes, and 5th Streets and the Missouri River and operating a ferry before being killed in 1831.
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Date
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1957
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Object Type
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Manuscript
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Title
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Gabriel Prudhomme Estate
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Description
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A 16 page typescript (carbon copy) paper on the Gabriel Prudhomme estate, the parcel of land on the riverfront area in the 1820s "bec[oming] the Town of Kansas" following its owner's death in 1831. Description of the land's appraisal (and inheritance by Prudhomme's descendants) in 1831 by "Elliot Johnson, John Self and Lewis Roy [or Louis Roi]" and division in 1837 followed by platting and auctioning off in 1838 as the original Town of Kansas. Contains bibliographic sources on p. 14-16.
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Manuscript
