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Herndon was born on July 15, 1897, in Atlanta, Georgia.He was the son and only child of millionaire African-American businessman Alonzo Franklin Herndon (June 26, 1858 – July 21, 1927) and Adrienne McNeil Herndon (July 22, 1869 - April 6, 1910) (born Elizabeth A. Stephens), a well-known actress and professor of dramatics and elocution at Atlanta University.
Ron Baker (1993– ), shooting guard with the New York Knicks (born in Hays, but grew up in Utica and Scott City) [28] Marlies Gipson (1987– ), forward [29] Other
Herndon died in Atlanta on July 21, 1927 at the age of 69 and was honored by his fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha. His son, Norris B. Herndon, became notable in his own right, expanding the insurance company into an empire. [9] The Herndon Home. Herndon's former home in Atlanta, Herndon Home, was designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 2000.
The Hays Daily News is a newspaper that serves western Kansas. The Daily News was published every day except Saturday. The week of March 17, 2024, the newspaper changed publication dates to twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays. [2] This followed a reduction several years prior to three days per week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday).
Hays is a city in and the county seat of Ellis County, Kansas, United States. [1] The largest city in northwestern Kansas, it is the economic and cultural center of the region. [5] [6] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 21,116. [3] [4] It is home to Fort Hays State University. [7]
The building is located at 1901 Olathe Bouelevard and was established in the mid-1890s by Horatio W. and Mary Gates. [2] That Gates family was among the first licensed embalmers in the state, and they built this Neoclassical-style funeral home in 1922 to house their growing business.
Adrienne Elizabeth McNeil was born on July 22, 1869, in Augusta, Georgia to the unwed couple Martha Fleming and George Stevens. [2] Her mother, seventeen at the time of her birth, was a domestic servant and seamstress who had been born into slavery, while her father was a light-skinned man who abandoned the family shortly after Herndon's birth. [3]
both built by Justus Bissing Jr. Mr. Bissing was of a Volga German family which came to Ellis County in 1874, and grew up on a farm north of Catharine, Kansas, which is near Hays. [2] Justus Bissing Jr. House (1920), in 2014