Revision as of 21:48, 8 September 2025

Kansas City Meeting Room, Kansas City, MO (EB) +1879-1908; (TW) 1909-1985+

Correspondents

• John Wells 1879+
• O.O. Roberts +1889+
• Alfred Gill +1894+
• J.H. Johnson +1896+
• P.H. Harris +1896-1905+
• C.E. Daughaday +1908-1923+
• H.A. Eichenberger +1911+
• George Weghorn +1911-1944+
• M.E. Petrequin +1914-1917+
• J.A. Daniels +1914-1933+
• William Osborne Bell +1927-1944+ (b. 1880 Miami, Saline, MO - d. 1961 Walla Walla, WA)
• J. Paul Bell +1944+
• R.B. Bell +1949-1951+
• Robert C. Guthrie +1949+, +1962-1966+
• Lloyd Odom +1949+
• Sam Hoff +1951+
• Peter Hulet +1951+, +1973+
• Samuel S. Hoff +1962-1985+
• Wilbur R. Hoff +1962+
• Avery B. Dickson +1962-1966+
• Lionel J. Mittlestadt +1973+
• William M. Ward +1985+

Families

Bell family

• William Osborne Bell +1927-1952+ (b. 1880 Miami, Saline, MO - d. 1961 Walla Walla, WA)
  • Dr. Phillip Osborne "Phil" Bell (b. 1908 Sampsel, OK - d. 1994 Criders, Rockingham, VA) resided for many years in Lawrence, Kansas. He was a mathematics professor at the University of Kansas, and commuted to the meeting room in KCMO. In 1934, Phil married Martha Marie Klassen (b. 1913 Aberdeen, [[Idaho}ID]] - d. 1951 Lawrence, KS, a daughter of Cornelius & Paula Hege Klassen, co-founders of the Aberdeen Meeting Room in Idaho in 1912. Martha died in 1951, at the age of 38, of cancer, and Dr. Bell remained in Lawrence for a time, and in 1953 remarried Vera Jane Allendorf (b. 1925 San Gabriel, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2006 Criders, VA), daughter of John George Allendorf (b. 1895 Chicago, IL - d. 1959 Napa, CA) & Bessie Ina Graham Allendorf (b. 1898 Palermo, Grundy, IA - d. 1985 Fairfax Co., VA), and they eventually retired to Van Nuys, California, and later in Criders, VA.
• J. Paul Bell +1944+
• R.B. Bell +1949-1951+

Daniels family

• J.A. Daniels +1914-1933+

Daughaday family

• C.E. Daughaday +1908-1923+

Dickson family

Ethel G. Dickson-Bell was a retired head switchboard operator at the Emery-Bird-Thayer department store. Her 2nd husband (1941 @ KCMO) was Richard Bland Bell (b. 1895 Triplett, Chariton, MO - d. 1993 KCMO), son of Philip Madison Bell (b. 1852 Salvisa, Mercer, KY - d. 1903 Triplett, MO) & Eliza Donabell Bell (b. 1853 Miami, Saline, MO - d. 1929 KCMO). Avery Jr.'s siblings: Jacob Wayne Dickson of KCMO, Elizabeth Dickson Sackman of Torrance, CA, and Maxine Dickson Ephland of Denver, CO, as per her obit.

• Avery Brown Dickson, Jr. +1962-1966+ (b. 1916 KCMO - d. 2010 Raymore, Cass, MO), son of Avery Brown Dickson, Sr. (b. 1893 Whitewater, Butler, KS - d. 1961 San Bernardino, CA) & Ethel G. Goff Dickson +1970 (b. 1895 El Reno, OK - d. 1970 KCMO). 1916 @ 1021 Jackson Ave. 1940 @ 1321 E. 28th St. Terrace. In 1940, Avery was employed under Mr. Hammock with the Kansas City Trimming Supply @ 612 E. 18th.
• Ruth Sackman Dickson (m. 1938)
  • Sandra Dickson Kayper
  • Ruth Dickson Carmell

Eichenberger family

Dr. Rudolph Eichenberger was a son of Melchior Eich. (b. 1829 Reinach, Switz. - d. 1881 Aargau, Switz.) & Elizabeth Haurey Eich. (b. 1827 Aargau, Sw. - d. 1897 St. Louis, MO). Dr. Eichenberger was employed as an optician. 1880 @ Wabasha, MN.

• Henry "Harry" August Eichenberger +1911+ (b. 1884 St. Louis, MO - d. 1971 Tulsa, OK), son of Dr. Rudolph Henry Eichenberger (b. 1851 Reinach, Switzerland; emig. 1880; m. 1882 StL; d. 1922 Train, Kelheim, Germany) & 1st wife Augusta Rittmeyer Eichenberger (b. 1855 Hicker, IL - d. 1935 Hannibal, MO).

Gill family

• Alfred Gill +1894+

Guthrie family

• Robert C. Guthrie +1949+, +1962-1966+

Harris family

• P.H. Harris +1896-1905+

Hoff family

• Samuel S. Hoff +1948-1985+
• Wilbur R. Hoff +1962+

Hulet family

• Peter Hulet +1951+, +1973+

Johnson family

• J.H. Johnson +1896+

Mittlestadt family

• Lionel J. Mittlestadt +1973+

Odom family

• Lloyd Odom +1949+

Petrequin family

• M.E. Petrequin +1914-1917+

Roberts family

• O.O. Roberts +1889+

Ward family

• William M. Ward +1985+

Weghorn family

• George Weghorn +1911-1952+”

Wells family

• John Wells 1879+

Sources

• 1879-1985 EB/TW AB's
• Ancestry.com