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Called 'DR' by all, Daniel Read Anthony was the little brother of Susan B. Anthony. He was a force in his own right. Even before the Civil War he personally knew Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley, Eli Thayer, William Seward, Jim Lane, John Brown and other historical notables.DR was a leader among the first Emigrant Aid Society settlers to Kansas. DR owned a free-state newspaper in Leavenworth. He was a brash, outspoken abolitionist, and survived being shot at repeatedly in 'Bloody Kansas'. He was involved in the Underground Railroad, in the brazen rescue of the jailed slave Charley Fisher, in freeing Missouri slaves, and in sustaining one winter the destitute family of Frederick Douglass.But his passion for justice developed a dark side...

He weighed one-eighth of a Ton. He did not suffer fools.Several individuals claim Kansas City's first brick edifice built in the 1840s. But to the west in the wilderness called 'Indian Country' Thomas Johnson had built a CAMPUS of multistory brick buildings - years before that!America praised his manual training school for Indians at Shawnee Mission in his namesake Johnson County, Kansas.CONTEMPORARIES APPLAUDED HIM"Rev. Thomas Johnson, a noble specimen of Western man"Washington Union, March 1855 "No history of Kansas...would be complete without prominent mention of his long and efficient labors..."John Calvin McCoy, "the very father of Kansas City""[Johnson had]...administrative ability unsurpassed by that of any man I ever knew."Nathan ScarrittINDIANS REVERED 'BIG TOMMY'"...decidedly the best Indian preacher I ever heard..."Wyandot chief William WalkerBUT AT AGE 39 THOMAS JOHNSON'S WORLD CAME CRASHING DOWN...

...one "past" in Kansas City...[is a fabricated] success story of prophecies redeemed, boldness vindicated, and the city itself a continuing testimony to triumph over the wilderness...Wohl and Brown, "The Usable Past" (1960)And there is the REAL "past" of Kansas City, recalled by: THE MAN WHO WAS THEREJOHN CALVIN McCOYBut if you think 'Calvin' was a meek bookworm loafing around the cracker barrel, consider this: Child of the raw frontier, he grew up playing bone-cracking, skin-splitting games with Potawatomi boys.A pathfinder, he faced up to Black Dog-an Osage chief who towered 7 feet and weighed 300 pounds.A surveyor, he survived roiling dust storms, deadly floods and icy blizzards in the American wilderness. Yes, he alone saw impenetrable, tangled wilds along the Missouri River in 1830 give rise to Kansas City swarming with 100,000 residents in 1889. And he told us about it!JOHN CALVIN MCCOY WAS THE "VERY FATHER OF KANSAS CITY"Montgomery and Kasper, Kansas City: An American Story (1999)