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
  • Dorothy Dwan (1906–1981) – film actress
  • Lucille McVey (1890–1925) – film screenwriter and silent film actress; married to Sidney Drew in 1914; often credited under married name of Mrs. Sidney Drew; through marriage, aunt to John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore[2]
  • Jack Oakie, born Lewis Delaney Offield (1903–1978) – film, stage, radio, and television actor[2]

Comedy

Literature

Music
Scott Joplin

Education

Scientists and Engineering

Historical figures
  • Clay Allison (1840–1887) – gunfighter, American Old West

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)[5]
  • Elizabeth Williams Cosgrove (1878–1975), journalist; writer; poet[6]
  • 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)[7]
  • Mary Frances "Murry" Engle (1930–2005) – journalist, Sedalia Democrat (1950–1966), Boeing News and Boeing Magazine (1967–1970); Honolulu Star-Bulletin (1970–1993)[8]
  • 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)
  • 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)[9]
  • 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)[10]
  • Thomas J. Montgomery – vice-president, Missouri State Medical Association (1874)[10]
  • John W. Trader – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1876)[10]

Military

United States Army
  • Richard D. Dean (born 1929) – United States Army Brigadier General and Deputy Director of the Army National Guard
  • Rufus Estes Longan (1879–1936) – Brigadier General, United States Army[2][11]
  • John C. McLaughlin (1903–1967) – Major General, United States Army, 35th Infantry Division[2]
  • John Henry Parker – Brigadier General, United States Army; West Point Graduate; war hero; first to recognize the tactical advantages of machine guns to continuously support advancing infantry and protect artillery trains (carriages pulled by draft animals); awarded the Distinguished Service Cross four times, for valor displayed on four separate occasions, during 1918[2][12]
  • Edgar Frank Thelen (born 1906) – University of Missouri graduate; associate of Harry S. Truman in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (1930–1940); US Army officer (1942–1961); staff member, University of Missouri[13]
  • William S. Triplet (1900–1994) – Colonel United States Army; professional soldier; West Point graduate (1924); served in both World War I and World War II[14]

United States Air Force

Other
  • William Gentry (1818–1890) – Major in the 40th Enrolled Missouri Militia; livestock farmer; railroad executive; candidate for Governor (1874)[17]

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]
  • Henry Lamm (1846–1926) – lawyer; jurist; poet; Associate and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1905–1916)[2][20][21]
  • 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][22]
  • 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.[23]

Mayors of Sedalia

The following have been mayors of Sedalia:

  • 1864 – George Rappeen Smith (1804–1879)[24]
  • 1865 – E.W. Warsburn (resigned)[25]
  • 1865 – F.L. Parker[25]
  • 1866 – John Finis Philips (1834–1919)[25]
  • 1867 – Henry Suess (1837–1891)[26]
  • 1868 – General Bacon Montgomery (1840–1888)[27]
  • 1869 – Albert Parker[25]
  • 1870 – William P. Jackson[25]
  • 1871 – Thomas J. Montgomery[25]
  • 1872 – George W. Cummings[25]
  • 1873 – Dr. R. T. Miller[25]
  • 1874 – William H. H. Hill[28]
  • 1875 – Norman Maltby (1841–1876)[25]
  • 1876 – David Blocher[25]
  • 1877 – Logan Clark[25]
  • 1878–1879 – George L. Faulgaber (1838–)[25]
  • 1880 – E. C. Evans[25]
  • 1881 – Frank Cravcroft[25]
  • 1882–1883 – Charles E.Messerly[25]
  • 1884–1885 – John B. Rickman[25]
  • 1886–1887 – E. W. Stevens[25]
  • 1888–1889 – John D. Crawford[25]
  • 1890–1893 – E. W.Stevens[25]
  • 1894–1898 – Pleasant Dawson Hastain (1854–)[25]
  • 1898–1899 – W. C. Overstreet[25]
  • 1900–1901 – Samuel K. Crawford[25]
  • 1902–1905 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)[25]
  • 1906–1907 – John A. Collins[25]
  • 1908–1910 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)[25]
  • 1910–1911 – J. W. Mellor[25]
  • 1912–1913 – F. L. Ludemann[25]
  • 1914–1917 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
  • 1918–1919 – A. L. Baumgartner[25]
  • 1920–1923 – Frank F. Hatton[25]
  • 1924–1927 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)[25]
  • 1928–1929 – O. B. Poundstone[29]
  • 1930–1931 – S. B. Kennon[25]
  • 1932–1933 – Wilmer Steeples[25] (1891–1946)[30]
  • 1934–1935 – O. B. Poundstone;[25] Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[25]
  • 1936–1941 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[25]
  • 1942–1945 – Alonzo H. Wilks[25]
  • 1946–1949 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[25]
  • 1950–1953 – Herbert E. Studer[25]
  • 1954–1957 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)[25]
  • 1958–1961 – Abe Silverman (1899–1990)[25]
  • 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

Football

Wrestling

Miscellaneous
Bernarr Macfadden, "The Boxer", 1905

See also

References
  1. Sedalia OLD TIMERS in 1893 (Sedalia Bazoo, December 12, 1893)
  2. Appears in a list of twenty-six of "Sedalia's Famous Sons" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 118.
  3. Penguin Group (USA) Author Biography: June Rae Wood.
  4. Walker-Hill, Helen (1992). "Music by Black Women Composers at the AMRC". American Music Research Center Journal, Vol. 2, pp.32-33. University of Colorado. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  5. 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.
  6. Elizabeth Williams Cosgrove, Muskogee Writer and Poet.
  7. 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.
  8. "Obituary: Murry Engle (1930–2005); Isle journalist had a love for adventurous reporting". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. June 10, 2005.
  9. Imhauser, (2007), p. 29.
  10. Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 41.
  11. State Historical Society of Missouri – Columbia: Longan, Rufus E. ( –1936)
  12. Full Text Citations For Award of The Distinguished Service Cross, World War I, To Members of the U.S. Army (N-P) Archived August 29, 2006, at the Wayback Machine 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".
  13. Harry S. Library & Museum: Oral History Interview with Col. Edward F. Thelen on 6 June 1968.
  14. Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, 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.
  15. Air Force Link Biography: Major General Arthur G. Salisbury
  16. Sedalia Heroes Biography: George Whiteman Archived January 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  17. 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.
  18. Notable Names Database: US Ambassador to Hungary (List).
  19. 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.
  20. List of judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri
  21. Lawyers and Poetry: Henry Lamm (1846–1926) Missouri Archived July 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  22. Hazel Palmer – Business and Professional Women.
  23. Donald J. Stohr-obituary
  24. 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.
  25. Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  26. Mardos Memorial Library Biography: Hon. Henry Suess Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  27. Archie Clement#Death Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. certificate of Wilmer Steeples Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
  31. Baseball Almanac: 1920 Detroit Tigers Roster.
  32. Baseball Almanac: 1951 St. Louis Browns Roster.
  33. Baseball Almanac: 1934 Philadelphia Athletics Roster.

Further reading
  • Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN 0-8262-1222-0
  • Ihrig, B.B. et al. (eds), The First One Hundred Years, A History of the City of Sedalia, Missouri, 1860–1960, Centennial History Committee, Sedalia, 1960.
  • Imhauser, R.C., Images of America: Sedalia, Arcadia Publishing, (Charleston), 2007. ISBN 0-7385-5087-6
  • Scotten, F.C., History of the Schools of Pettis County, Missouri, 1974; Prepared under the Direction of C. F. Scotten, C.F. Scotton, (Sedalia) 1974.
  • Bird, Kenneth L. "Rail to The Osage" The story of the Sedalia Warsaw & Southern Railroad, Menwith Publications,(Lincoln, Mo), 2009. ISBN 978-1-61584-215-5
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