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  2. Timeline of Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Kansas City Art Institute founded, later attended by Walt Disney; First overhead electric trolleys in the US used here. [5] 1889 The city of Kansas City formed by merger of Westport and City of Kansas. [1] Kansas City Public Library building opens. [11] 1890 - Population: 132,716. [5] 1892 - Court House built. [5] 1893 City Hall built. [5]

  3. William S. Cowherd - Wikipedia

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    William Strother Cowherd (September 1, 1860 – June 20, 1915) was a Democratic Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri from 1892–1894 and Congressman from Missouri from 1897–1905. Early life [ edit ]

  4. History of Kansas - Wikipedia

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    The first college football game played in Kansas was the 1890 Kansas vs. Baker football game played in Baldwin City. Baker won 22–9. [ 67 ] The first night football game west of the Mississippi was played in Wichita, Kansas in 1905 between Cooper College (now called Sterling College ) and Fairmount College (now Wichita State University ). [ 68 ]

  5. List of defunct medical schools in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1860 1912 1858–1864 Medical Department of University of the Pacific, 1864–1870 discontinued, ... 1897 Kansas City (Kan) College of Medicine and Surgery, ...

  6. Kansas Territory - Wikipedia

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    Kansas Territory was established on May 30, 1854, by the Kansas–Nebraska Act.This act established both the Nebraska Territory and Kansas Territory. The most momentous provision of the Act in effect repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed the settlers of Kansas Territory to determine by popular sovereignty whether Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.

  7. Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889.The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place to settle.

  8. Westport, Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    West Port's greatest prosperity came between 1854 and 1860. The Civil War brought many skirmishes between pro- and anti-slavery groups in the area, and the Battle of Westport was in October 1864. [6] After the war, trade fell off sharply and never recovered, and by 1899, Kansas City annexed Westport. [1]

  9. Mayor of Kansas City, Kansas - Wikipedia

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    The mayor of Kansas City, Kansas is the highest official of the city government. ... 1860 1 2 George Russell 1860 1862 2 3 Stephen A. Cobb: 1862 1863 1 4 J. M. Funk