List of people from Atchison County, Kansas

The following is a list of people from Atchison County, Kansas. The area includes the cities of Atchison, Effingham, Huron, Lancaster, Muscotah, and rural areas in the county. Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people past and present who have resided in the county, either in cities or rural areas.

Amelia Earhart grew up in Atchison, was an early aviation pioneer, and was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Academics

Mary Peters Fieser, chemist
James Bennett Griffin, archeologist
Paul Christoph Mangelsdorf, botanist and agronomist known for research in corn
Charles Lester Marlatt, entomologist
John L. Pollock, philosopher known for influential work in epistemology, philosophical logic, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence

Arts and entertainment

Carl Blair, artist
Rory Lee Feek, country music singer
Milo Hastings, writer
Jesse Stone, rhythm and blues musician and songwriter whose influence spanned a wide range of genres and is credited to have done "more to develop the basic rock 'n' roll sound than anybody else"^[1]
John Cameron Swayze, popular news commentator and game show panelist during the 1950s
Frank Wilcox, character actor
Max Yoho, humorist

Athletics

Carter Elliott, shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs^[2]
Leslie Geary, designed and raced numerous competitive sailing vessels, and also designed commuter yachts, fishing boats, tugboats, and wooden hulled freighters
Oscar Johnson, baseball player in the Negro leagues
Joe Tinker, Major League Baseball player for the Chicago Cubs
Larry Wilcox, head college football coach for the Benedictine Ravens^[3]

Aviation

Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer

Clergy

C. I. Scofield, theologian, minister, and writer whose best-selling annotated Bible popularized futurism and dispensationalism among fundamentalist Christians

Journalism

E. W. Howe, newspaper editor and novelist
Roy A. Roberts, managing editor, president, editor and general manager of The Kansas City Star; guided the paper during its influential period during the presidencies of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Military

Laura M. Cobb, former Chief Nurse of the United States Navy^[4]

Politics and government

Willis J. Bailey, 16th Governor of Kansas
William Thomas Bland, United States Representative from Missouri
Charles F. Cochran, United States Representative from Missouri
George Washington Glick, ninth Governor of Kansas^[5]
Jerry Henry, member of the Kansas House of Representatives
John James Ingalls, politician
Sheffield Ingalls, politician and former Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
James Edmund Jeffries, United States Representative from Kansas
Victor Linley, member of the Wisconsin State Senate
John Martin
Chester L. Mize, United States Representative from Kansas
Samuel C. Pomeroy, United States Senator from Kansas
Jim Slattery, United States Representative from Kansas
Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, Missouri Attorney General, high-ranking border ruffian, one of the organizers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Other

Bangs Sisters, mediums who made a career out of painting the dead, or "spirit portraits"^[6]^[7]

References

^ Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll (2nd ed. 1991), pages 12–21.
^ "Carter Elliott Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
^ "NAIA Football Coaches' Active Wins List Announced". National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. August 11, 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2011.
^ Judith Johnson, "Laura Cobb: A Kansas Nurse in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Part I," Navy Medicine, January–February 2003, pgs. 7–13, and Judith Johnson, "Laura Cobb: A Kansas Nurse in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Conclusion," Navy Medicine, March–April 2003, pgs 4–9
^ "Kansas Legislators Past & Present – Gis through Gref, State Library of Kansas". Kslib.info. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2010.
^ "Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology" 1920 (page 93) By Lewis Spence
^ Photographing the invisible: practical studies in spirit photography, spirit" By James Coates

[tosches-1] Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll (2nd ed. 1991), pages 12–21.

[statistics-2] "Carter Elliott Statistics and History". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved November 12, 2011.

[3] "NAIA Football Coaches' Active Wins List Announced". National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. August 11, 2011. Retrieved August 31, 2011.

[JJohnson1-4] Judith Johnson, "Laura Cobb: A Kansas Nurse in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Part I," Navy Medicine, January–February 2003, pgs. 7–13, and Judith Johnson, "Laura Cobb: A Kansas Nurse in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp, Conclusion," Navy Medicine, March–April 2003, pgs 4–9

[5] "Kansas Legislators Past & Present – Gis through Gref, State Library of Kansas". Kslib.info. Archived from the original on November 25, 2010. Retrieved August 9, 2010.

[6] "Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology" 1920 (page 93) By Lewis Spence

[7] Photographing the invisible: practical studies in spirit photography, spirit" By James Coates

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