Nothing offers a better glimpse of early Kansas City than what flowed from the census taker's pen.
Landlord John Harris and his wife, Henrietta, also were Southerners. Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina. Green B. Randolph and his wife, Mary, were good examples of the westward migration. They were born in North Carolina, had their first two children in Tennessee and their next two in Illinois. By 1850, the entire family lived in Missouri.