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The Saga Or the Armour Family in Kansas City, 1870 - 1900 La, '986), 2-3 • " 25 ~ ~ of IN Wind Ptoph, 16nJ873, 157·186; T.S. Fry, WSlOne HOWlC8 for the The Saga or the Armour Family in Kansas City, 1870 - 1900 la, '986), 2-3. By Edwin D. Shutt IUj H. a8lg Miller BOd William Unrau, 'l RwoIuJion, 1854-/87/, Lawrence, KS: "Ambition lXlupled "";th energy is Mr. Armour supplied him with the driving force of mankind." boob and paid his tuition in a PhilipAmwur night school. Young Sullivan W;Idn::M of !he PresMknl. "The Kaw or CJIltinued a protege of Mr. l6-<O. II wa5 in March of 1873 when I Armour, grndually advancing in fin;r met Mr. K. B. Armour. He position until in 1878 he left for WCl5 a tall well buill young man New York with his family to still in his teens. A man named receive a comfortable inheritance m E. Uorau, Miud-Bloods and Tribal SulUvan who had worked in the left by an uncle.1 'IIiia.'IldmliJy. Lawrence, KS: University Plankinton and Armour's packing house died a few weeks previous, The Reverend William J. Dalton leaving a wife and three children related this slory in a Kansas City Times 16 NCNember 1985. in poor circumstances. Young article shortly after the death of Kirkland Armour WCl5 in search of the B. Armour. A close family friend, he bad Augut.l. 1989; Personal interview with family to see if he could help witnessed the kindness and genelU!iity of them by giving employment to lhe the Armour family for many years·-as ehildren. The family had left west bankers, mealpackers, civie and SoCx,:ial totgaret Haucke, 23; 11 August 1989 Kansas immediately after the leaders, and philanthropists. TIle Armours death of the falher and the were perhaps the m~t important and neighbors referred Mr. Armour influenlial family in Kansas City, Missouri 11 August 1989. to me 10 learn where they had fTOm 1870 unlil the tum of the century. moved. They were slaying with Two brothers of the great Chicago Red Skin Cllief is Burled." unidenlified relatives a few miles out in mealpacker Philip Armour, Simeon Brooks .ion at CouDCil Grove Publie Library. Kansas. Mr. Armour seemed Armour and Andrew WalSOn Armour, pleased when I informed him that along wilh IWO nephews, KirkJand B. ~nonal interview with Vincent PUllins, the 1xJy was old enough to work. Armour and Charles W. Armour, came to He sem for the family, paid out the city and made a lasting oontribution to of his (MIll pocket, two months its growth and development. rem for B cottage for lhem near "There will be the future ~l of the Santa Fe Bnd Eighth Slree15 and empire of the We&t,· Mis50uri senator rillton, June 1989; Ibid #9- Haueke left orden BI a grocery store to Thomas Han Benton stated in reference to supply them with provisions and the small town of Kansas City. Sueh \0 forward him the bilL The Lad oplimism aside, Kansas City actually bad a was pili in the office of the elouded future prior 10 and immediately packing llo11se as an errand tx:,. after the Civil War. GICMing predictions 26 were also being made for several rival river urban historian Urwr'ence H. I.Msen noted tlJWJB in tne area, such .u St. JU'lepll, [tuu "In l!l remarkable story, Kansas City A1ebillln, Wyandotte, Leavenworth, and partial1y by iU own design, a bit 01 luck and Ouindam. In 180 Audubo!1 c:ooviDced some chicaslety became a &ua::e::uful I:Ii.m5elf that SI. Joseph, Missouri bad tbe railroacl center by spending. according to brightest future. Horace Greeley ill 1859 LlIIe eslimale, Only $740,000 oyer a 15 year Wd1 sure thai it was the tOYiTl of W}'andolle period ()[l railroalJ projects. At the very (part of prelIenl day }(ansa., City, Ka=). hit Kllmas ory business lc.adern receiYed Many others favored Leavenwo:th, Kansas a rant&tiL re(um on their investment of as the coming melropolis. An early official time and money:~ of Ihe Territory of Kansas recalled having DUring Ihe 187lb and 805., the a w,iling eastern capitalist admonish him HanniooJ Bridge and ~he arrival of l1le on the litelihood of a railroad ct-nler being railroad stimulated the greatest era of develop«! al lhe moulb or the Kansa! and commercial growtb in Ka~ City, Mibsouri Rivers by replying: M~Uri'5 history. B~' 1880 eleven railroads linlr:ed the city with olher ports of the My dear .\oir, I beg of you, for naLion. The city's population gcw your ~ke, aml tnat of your dramalicaUy from 4,418 in 1860 10 32,260 promising town, you Will never in 1870 and 55,785 by 1880.~ A final factor again make your Iasl ot6e~'atjon in this period of unprecedented grOONlh was [0 anyone else. I can exeU5& your lhe establishment of a martel where lhe enthu~i.um but othe~ rna}' not. drover with his millions of TelWlS longhorns Your \team boats are here, yOl.l could IlOt. with tne northern cattle bu)-ers will bave a good lown, perlUlp5 a and meatpaek.e~. respeetable city, ~Ul never in your llIe driving force behind the day or your mildren's will a est.ablishment of sueh a callie marlr:et was railroad reaeh, much le.~ go to L.V. Morne, Suptrinlendem of the the west of you.2 Hannibal and 51. Jo;eph Railroad. Morse corr~tly theorized that tllousands of The railroads were coming, however, western callie (....hich their owners were and soon. By Lhe Civil War, railroods from ul\llble to.seH LIt the Kam<lS rdllhea;J towns) tbe east bad already linked Chicago, were could be shipp«! ta5rward and marlr:eted at rapidly expanding .....utwaro, and would KalU3-~ City. Itt 1870, the Hannibal re<ldJ <Ill parts of the nation. Kansas City, Railroad acquired five 3Ct"ei of lllnd, had Mis60uri's major rivals, by 1867, all seemed Lhe site fenced in, and buill elevett 5tock 10 be ill beller p;6itions 10 secure a major pens. The railroad incorporated the railroad link. Several factors, however, operalion as Ihe Kan.r.as Ciry Stockyards resuked in the Hannibal and Sl. JlY:oeph Company.S Railroad's deeision Lo build a bridge over A large one and one-half ~lory building the Mi6s0url River. The bridge anlJ ttle was erected as a livestock Exchange resulling tnmk line into the soulhwest was Building near Twelfth and Stale Line. In an effort to capitalize Oil the rising 1872 the bUilding was made [WO stories revenues. of the cal\le bu~nes5. The high. The firsl floor ",as di\-ided inLo six Hannibal Bridge offieially opened at KaIl.'oll5 enclosures where six. commiMion firms had City on Saturday, July 3, 1869, and it their first offices and quarters. In the fall of virtually assurelJ thai Ihe ciry woukl lhal same year five more commLs8ion finns beoome a major metropolitan center. 1be arrived and the building was doubled in , ..._.. 27 rbBn bi&toriao Lawrence H. I..arsen noted aizc:. In 1876, a brick building was erected SL louis Avenue, JUSI west of Hickory :lilt "1D a remarkable 5I.ory, Kartsas City al Si:lleenlh and State Line, and eventually Slreel, and packed bogs during lbe winler BI'tiaUy by its own design, a bit of luck and I.Jm Elchange Building would contain 350 of 1868-69. During tbe foUowing yean he lIDC d1icaDery became a successful offices and cover lhree and a half acres of bought ground and built a bouse of his I8roBd center by spending, according to floor space.6 own OIl the Kansas side.8 This was tbe DC estimate, only $740,000 over a 15 year Serond only to the railroads, perhaps, future site of the Fowler Packing Company. crD:I railroad OIl projectS. AI (he very DOthing was §Q importanl 10 the grtM1h of In 1869, Dr. F.8. Nofsinger of IndUinapolis .. Kamas City buslness leaden received the two Kansas Cities as the establishmenl bought out the firm of Slaven.'l. EppefBDn fantastic return on their inveslnlent of of a great meal packing center there. The and PaHerson. No leM an authority lhan aDd money."J me arrival of Armour and olher nalional I05epb McCoy remarked lbat "It i5 enough 800;, During lbe 18705 and the packing interests between 1870 and 1900 to iIBY tllat tbe location for packing hou~ lannibal Bridge and the arrival of the dictated heavy outside capital investmenl in could not be improved upon or sur-paMed liIroad Slimulaled the greatest era of plants and land, and resulted in a large in lhe West. This may be lruthfully said as xnmercial growth in Kansas City, labor force being gainfully employed. to the aiaet grounds upon which they are liII&ouri's history. By 1880 eleven railroads During the Civil War, callie had greatly built, as well as the poinl in the Wesl at Iked tbe city with Olher parts of the multiplied on the Texas plains. The rapidly which they are localed."9 1Uan. The city's population grc.v gro.ving industrial population of the East The decision of Plankinton and '1l.lIIlItically from 4,418 in 1860 to 32,260 4 and upper Mid-West crealed a markel for Armour 10 build a branch plant in Kansas 1870 aDd 55,785 by 1880. A final factor these callie. Ioseph G. McCoy is often City in 1870 was probably the m~t this period of unprecedented growth '1l'3S referred LO as Ihe father of the Kartsa5 City influential faclor in the development of II: CSl8b1ishmenl of a market where the livestock industry.
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