Marion R. Jenkins was born in Audrain county on August 15, 1854. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jenkins lived on a farm in Browning, Missouri of Linn County. After quitting the farm, M. R. Jenkins became the owner of the Jenkins Hay Rake &…

Livingston County is located in northern Missouri north of the Missouri River that borders the Grand River. The land has several small streams with even smaller twisting water branches that flow southeast and drain into the Mississippi river. The…

Joseph E. Imhauser, a local businessman, built the three-story Harris House in 1896 located at the corner of 705 Sixth Street and S. Harrison Avenue. Architect, W. S. Epperson, designed the home and Jerome Moyer served as contractor. The building…

Before the Civil War, a Missouri law prohibited education for African Americans. After emancipation in 1863, the state’s constitution was revised that allowed at least twenty black children from the ages of six to twenty that lived within the…

The sculptor Ernest Moore Viquesney of Spencer, Indiana, created his stone design of “The Spirit of the American Doughboy” statue to immortalize the importance of what the soldiers were and had sacrificed in the Great War. In December of 1920, his…

Joseph D. and Frank E. Sicher, brothers, created Sedalia's first public recreation park. The Sicher family came from Austria and migrated to St. Louis, Missouri, when Joseph was ten years old. In 1872 the family moved to Sedalia and began…

A group of prominent individuals from Sedalia met in White's Hall on Ohio street and formed the Sedalia Library Association in 1871 and established the community's first privately-funded library and reading room. The first library was…