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Called 'DR' by all, Daniel Read Anthony was the little brother of Susan B. Anthony. He was a force in his own right. Even before the Civil War he personally knew Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley, Eli Thayer, William Seward, Jim Lane, John Brown and other historical notables.DR was a leader among the first Emigrant Aid Society settlers to Kansas. DR owned a free-state newspaper in Leavenworth. He was a brash, outspoken abolit...

He weighed one-eighth of a Ton. He did not suffer fools.Several individuals claim Kansas City's first brick edifice built in the 1840s. But to the west in the wilderness called 'Indian Country' Thomas Johnson had built a CAMPUS of multistory brick buildings - years before that!America praised his manual training school for Indians at Shawnee Mission in his namesake Johnson County, Kansas.CONTEMPORARIES APPLAUDED HIM"Rev. Thomas Johnson, a nobl...

...one "past" in Kansas City...[is a fabricated] success story of prophecies redeemed, boldness vindicated, and the city itself a continuing testimony to triumph over the wilderness...Wohl and Brown, "The Usable Past" (1960)And there is the REAL "past" of Kansas City, recalled by: THE MAN WHO WAS THEREJOHN CALVIN McCOYBut if you think 'Calvin' was a meek bookworm loafing around the cracker barrel, consider this: Child of the raw frontier, he g...

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