List of people from Sedalia, Missouri

The following is a list of people who were born in, have lived in, or are otherwise associated with American city of Sedalia, Missouri; they are known as Sedalians.

In addition to what follows, a list of more than fifty Sedalia "Old Timers", who had met at the Sedalia Courthouse on the previous evening, was published in the December 12, 1893, issue of the Sedalia Bazoo; the list indicated when they had arrived in Sedalia, and from whence they had come.[1]

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Arts

Acting

Art

  • Russell M. Glenn (born 1951) – artist and designer
  • LeRoy Daniel MacMorris (1893–1981) – portrait painter, muralist, illustrator, decorator and designer[3]

Comedy

Literature

Music

Scott Joplin

Photography

Business

  • T. B. Anderson – founder of the Sedalia Telephone Company in 1880[8]
  • William E. Franklin – president of Weyerhaeuser Far East, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, International Timber Company of Indonesia, and Kenneday Bay Timber Company (Malaysia)
  • Allen Percival Green (1875–1956) – engineer; founder, A. P. Green Fire Brick Company; philanthropist (donated A. P. Green Chapel to the University of Missouri)[2]
  • John W. Hicks, Jr. (1888–1945) – president, Paramount International Films; vice-president, Paramount Pictures[9]
  • Cyrus N. Johns – president, American Chain and Cable Company[2]
  • E. Virgil Neal (1868–1949) – manufacturer[2][10]
  • Samuel Lee Stedman (1916–1961) – MBA Harvard Business School (1937); New York merchant banker, Wall Street financial analyst[11]

Education

Sedalia School Superintendents

  • 1867–1872: George O. Brown[13]
  • 1872–1876 – G. W. Ready[13]
  • 1876–1884 – D. R. Cully[13]
  • 1884–1888 – William Richardson[13]
  • 1888–1893 – A. J. Smith[13]
  • 1893–1908 – G. V. Buchanan[13]
  • 1908–1920 – John P. Gass[13]
  • 1920–1924 – C. A. Greene[13]
  • 1924–1927 – John N. Crocker[13]
  • 1927–1958 – Heber U. Hunt (1897- )[13][14]
  • 1958–1973 – T. J. Norris[13][15]
  • 1973–1974 – A Henningson[15]

Scientists and Engineering

Historical figures

Journalism

  • Raymond Peter Brandt (1896–1974) – Rhodes Scholar; O.I.C. Office of Finances, American Relief Administration, Vienna, Austria, 1920; District Supervisor, American Relief Administration, Vitebsk, Russia, (1922–1923); reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1917–1919), and Washington, D.C. correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1923–1967)[16]
  • Elizabeth Williams Cosgrove (1878–1975), journalist; writer; poet[17]
  • Elizabeth Jane Dugan (?1848–1911) – also known as "Rosa Pearle"; poet; journalist (started with the Sedalia Bazoo; founder and editor of the Saturday-evening society weekly Rosa Pearle's Paper (1894–1911)[18]
  • Mary Frances "Murry" Engle (1930–2005) – journalist, Sedalia Democrat (1950–1966), Boeing News and Boeing Magazine (1967–1970); Honolulu Star-Bulletin (1970–1993)[19]
  • Charles Grandison Finney (1905–1984) – journalist; writer; part-time night club owner; author, The Circus of Dr. Lao, which adapted as the film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
  • J. West Goodwin – editor of Sedalia Bazoo; president of Missouri Press Association (1891); organizer of the Sedalia Citizens' Alliance (1902)
  • Hazel Norinne Lang (1903–1996) – journalist, reporter and feature writer with the Sedalia Democrat (1925–1970); poet; historian (author of Only Human; Poems of Everyday Life, Exposition Press, (New York), 1955, and the 1,112-page Life in Pettis County, 1815–1873, published in Sedalia, in 1975)[20]
  • Casper Salathiel Yost (1863–1941) – editor of St. Louis Globe-Democrat; founder of American Society of Newspaper Editors (1922)

Medicine

  • Walter Edward Dandy (1886–1946) – scientist and neurosurgeon[2]
  • Willis P. King – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1881)[21]
  • Thomas J. Montgomery – vice-president, Missouri State Medical Association (1874)[21]
  • John W. Trader – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1876)[21]

Military

United States Army

United States Navy

  • Floyd Ewing Hall (1920–1945) – naval aviator shot down over the island of Chichi Jima in the Pacific theater of World War II on February 18, 1945; after a month spent captured on the island, was executed and cannibalized by Japanese commanders; his capture and execution is one of the subjects of James Bradley's 2003 novel Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
  • John James Housel (1911–1941) – SK1c USN; killed in action on December 7, 1941, on the U.S.S. Arizona in the first wave of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

United States Air Force

Other

  • David Thomson (1775–1861) – General, third-division Kentucky militia (1814); politician; father-in-law of General George R. Smith; thought by many to be the killer of Tecumseh[29]
  • William Gentry (1818–1890) – Major in the 40th Enrolled Missouri Militia; livestock farmer; railroad executive; candidate for Governor (1874)[30]

Politics and government

Heads of state and heads of government

Diplomats

Politicians

Senator George Graham Vest

Judiciary

  • Walter Henry Bohling (1888–1968) – Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1934–1963)[2]
  • Brown Harris (1876–1948) – Jackson County circuit court judge for 24 years
  • Henry Lamm (1846–1926) – lawyer; jurist; poet; Associate and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1905–1916)[2][33][34]
  • Hazel Palmer – first female assistant prosecuting attorney in Sedalia, the first female county collector, and the first female magistrate judge of Pettis County; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958; president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women (1956–1958)[2][35]
  • John Finis Philips (1834–1919) – lawyer; politician; colonel 7th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry; president, Missouri Press Association (1891); US Congressman; federal judge[2]
  • Donald J. Stohr (1934–2015) – United States District Court judge; was born in Sedalia.[36]

Mayors of Sedalia

The following have been mayors of Sedalia:

  • 1864 – George Rappeen Smith (1804–1879)[37]
  • 1865 – E.W. Warsburn (resigned)[38]
  • 1865 – F.L. Parker[38]
  • 1866 – John Finis Philips (1834–1919)[38]
  • 1867 – Henry Suess (1837–1891)[39]
  • 1868 – General Bacon Montgomery (1840–1888)[40]
  • 1869 – Albert Parker[38]
  • 1870 – William P. Jackson[38]
  • 1871 – Thomas J. Montgomery[38]
  • 1872 – George W. Cummings[38]
  • 1873 – Dr. R. T. Miller[38]
  • 1874 – William H. H. Hill[41]
  • 1875 – Norman Maltby (1841–1876)[38]
  • 1876 – David Blocher[38]
  • 1877 – Logan Clark[38]
  • 1878–1879 – George L. Faulgaber (1838-)[38]
  • 1880 – E. C. Evans[38]
  • 1881 – Frank Cravcroft[38]
  • 1882–1883 – Charles E.Messerly[38]
  • 1884–1885 – John B. Rickman[38]
  • 1886–1887 – E. W. Stevens[38]
  • 1888–1889 – John D. Crawford[38]
  • 1890–1893 – E. W.Stevens[38]
  • 1894–1898 – Pleasant Dawson Hastain (1854-)[38]
  • 1898–1899 – W. C. Overstreet[38]
  • 1900–1901 – Samuel K. Crawford[38]
  • 1902–1905 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)[38]
  • 1906–1907 – John A. Collins[38]
  • 1908–1910 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)[38]
  • 1910–1911 – J. W. Mellor[38]
  • 1912–1913 – F. L. Ludemann[38]
  • 1914–1917 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
  • 1918–1919 – A. L. Baumgartner[38]
  • 1920–1923 – Frank F. Hatton[38]
  • 1924–1927 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)[38]
  • 1928–1929 – O. B. Poundstone[42]
  • 1930–1931 – S. B. Kennon[38]
  • 1932–1933 – Wilmer Steeples[38] (1891–1946)[43]
  • 1934–1935: O. B. Poundstone;[38] Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[38]
  • 1936–1941 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[38]
  • 1942–1945 – Alonzo H. Wilks[38]
  • 1946–1949 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[38]
  • 1950–1953 – Herbert E. Studer[38]
  • 1954–1957 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[38]
  • 1958–1961 – Abe Silverman (1899–1990)[38]
  • 1970–1973 – Jerry N. Jones
  • 1978–1981 – Allen L. Hawkins
  • 1982–1989 – Larry G. Foster
  • 1989–1992 – Steven J. Dust
  • 1994–2001 – Jane Gray
  • 2002–2009 – Bob Wasson (1933–2009)
  • 2009–2014 – Elaine Horn
  • since 2014 – Stephen Galliher

Sport

Baseball

Basketball

Billiards

  • Johnny Layton (1896–1956) – billiards champion; known as the "Diamond King"; won National Three-Cushion Championship 12 times (1919–1925); world champion (1928–1930); member of the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame (inducted 1974)[47]

Football

Softball

Wrestling

Miscellaneous

Bernarr Macfadden, "The Boxer", 1905

See also

References

  1. ↑ Sedalia OLD TIMERS in 1893 (Sedalia Bazoo, December 12, 1893)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Appears in a list of twenty-six of "Sedalia's Famous Sons" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 118.
  3. ↑ Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Kansas City Biography: (Leroy) Daniel MacMorris (1893–1981).
  4. ↑ Penguin Group (USA) Author Biography: June Rae Wood.
  5. ↑ University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Music Biography: Bill Booth.
  6. ↑ Obituary: The New York Times, (September 1, 1963), p. 56.
  7. ↑ Obituary: The New York Times, (July 7, 1970), p. 38. Also appears in a list of twenty-six of "Sedalia's Famous Sons" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 118.
  8. ↑ Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 43.
  9. ↑ Obituary: The New York Times, (June 2, 1945), p. 15. Also appears in a list of twenty-six of "Sedalia's Famous Sons" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 118.
  10. ↑ Conroy, M.S., The Cosmetics Baron You've Never Heard Of: E. Virgil Neal and Tokalon, Altus History LLC, (Englewood), 2009. ISBN 0-615-27278-9.
  11. ↑ Obituary: The New York Times, (September 3, 1961), p. 61.
  12. ↑ Obituary: Nauert, C.G., "James V. Mehl (1941–1998)", Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol.29, No.4, (Winter 1998), p. 1,086.
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Appears on the list of "Sedalia School Superintendents" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 120.
  14. ↑ Scotten, (1974), p. 142.
  15. 1 2 Scotten, (1974), p. 136.
  16. ↑ Harry S. Library & Museum: Oral History Interview with Raymond P. Brandt on 28 September 1970 Appears in a list of twenty-six of "Sedalia's Famous Sons" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 118.
  17. ↑ Elizabeth Williams Cosgrove, Muskogee Writer and Poet.
  18. ↑ Chalfant, R., "Dugan, Elizabeth Jane (Rosa Pearle) (1848?–1911)", pp. 263–264 in Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1222-0.
  19. ↑ "Obituary: Murry Engle (1930–2005); Isle journalist had a love for adventurous reporting". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. June 10, 2005.
  20. ↑ Imhauser, (2007), p. 29.
  21. 1 2 3 Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 41.
  22. ↑ State Historical Society of Missouri – Columbia: Longan, Rufus E. ( –1936)
  23. ↑ Find a Grave Memorial: John C. McLaughlin, III.
  24. ↑ Full Text Citations For Award of The Distinguished Service Cross, World War I, To Members of the U.S. Army (N-P) The list of twenty-six of "Sedalia's Famous Sons" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 118 refers to him as "'Gatling Gun Parker', inventor of machine gun".
  25. ↑ Harry S. Library & Museum: Oral History Interview with Col. Edward F. Thelen on 6 June 1968.
  26. ↑ Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne: A Memoir, 1917–1918, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2000. ISBN 0-8262-1290-5; Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), A Colonel in the Armored Divisions: A Memoir, 1941–1945, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1312-X; Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), In the Philippines and Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945–1948, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2001. ISBN 0-8262-1335-9.
  27. ↑ Air Force Link Biography: Major General Arthur G. Salisbury
  28. ↑ Sedalia Heroes Biography: George Whiteman
  29. ↑ Biography: General David Thomson.
  30. ↑ Claycomb, W.B., "Gentry, William (1818–1890)", pp. 334–335 in Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1222-0.
  31. ↑ Notable Names Database: US Ambassador to Hungary (List).
  32. ↑ Chalfant, R., "Bothwell, John Homer (1848–1929)", pp. 106–107 in Christensen, L.O. (ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1222-0.
  33. ↑ List of judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri
  34. ↑ Lawyers and Poetry: Henry Lamm (1846–1926) Missouri.
  35. ↑ Hazel Palmer – Business and Professional Women.
  36. ↑ Donald J. Stohr-obituary
  37. ↑ Cassity, M., " Smith, George Rappeen (1804–1879)", p. 702 in Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1222-0 Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  38. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  39. ↑ Mardos Memorial Library Biography: Hon. Henry Suess Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  40. ↑ Archie Clement#Death Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  41. ↑ Missouri State Archives: Certificate of Election: (14/A/6/1, 2, 3, 1876: Certificates of Election: Judge of 6th Circuit Court (William H. H. Hill) Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  42. ↑ The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Potterton to Powel Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  43. ↑ certificate of Wilmer Steeples Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  44. ↑ Baseball Almanac: 1920 Detroit Tigers Roster.
  45. ↑ Baseball Almanac: 1951 St. Louis Browns Roster.
  46. ↑ Baseball Almanac: 1934 Philadelphia Athletics Roster.
  47. ↑ Billiard Congress of America: Hall of Fame Inductees: 1969–1976.
  48. ↑ databaseFootball.com Statistics: Dick Barker.
  49. ↑ Anon, "Missouri's Joey Rich Elected President-Elect", The Inside Pitch: The Official Newsletter of the Amateur Softball Association, Vol.8, No.11, (December 2005), p. 1.
  50. ↑ Francis Asbury Sampson Collection Inventory: includes Biography of Francis Asbury Sampson (1842–1918).

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