Robert T. Van Horn
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Robert Thompson Van Horn (19 May 1824, East Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - 3 January 1916, Kansas City, Missouri) was a newspaper publisher and mayor of Kansas City during the parts of the Civil War, who later served in the Missouri General Assembly.
Having moved to Kansas City, Missouri in the mid-1850s, Van Horn purchased the newspaper The Enterprise in 1856 and renamed it The Kansas City Journal[1], which published daily from 1858 until its closing in 1942[2].
Van Horn was elected mayor of Kansas City to three terms, in 1861, 1863, and 1864. He went on to serve in the Missouri General Assembly.[1]
Van Horn High School was built on the site of Van Horn's Independence, Missouri house, Honeywood, in 1955.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Van Horn: He was a man of many trades" by Amanda Curtwright, "The Examiner" April 19-20, 2001
- ^ Wikipedia article on competitor newspaper, Kansas City Times
- A biography of Van Horn appears in "Kansas City, Missouri: its history and its people 1808-1908" by Carrie Westlake Whitney, 1908.
