The Old Shawnee Mission
The Old Shawnee Mission

Author: Edith Connelley Ross

Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13:

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"This is an account of the founding of the Shawnee Mission by the Methodist Episcopal Church in the country of the Shawnee Indians west of Missouri. Also of its growth and wonderful work and influence among the various tribes of Western Indians. And this is the story, too, of the heroic struggles of the Mission to continue its course under the control of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South to whom it fell in the division of the jurisdiction of the Church."--Page 4.

Thomas Johnson of Shawnee Mission
Thomas Johnson of Shawnee Mission

Author: Sam Wellman

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9780991008292

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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...