Kansas City History
Edward William Appleby, 32° (1871-1940) Engineer, bridge contractor.
Dr. Wallace A. Armour MD, 33° (1867-1935) Physician, Kansas City School District Board President.
Joseph Wheeler Aylor, 32° (1839-1917) Mining magnate, banker.
Mayor H. Roe Bartle Esq, 33° (1901-1974) Attorney, Mayor of Kansas City, MO., chief area executive for the Boy Scouts of America.
Mayor Albert Isaac Beach Esq, 32° (1883-1939) Kansas City Mayor, attorney.
Emil O. Bayerl, 33° (1899-1988) Architect, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine.
Dr Thomas J. Beattie MD, 32° (1863-1949) Physician; Professor of Diseases of Women - Kansas City Medical College, Kansas City, MO.
Woodrow W. Bennett PP, 33° (1914-2002) General Contractor, Bennett Construction, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1960, Past Imperial Potentate 1975-76.
Leon Edwin Bloch Sr. Esq, 32° (1881-1976) Attorney, the Leon E. Bloch Law Library, University of Missouri, Kansas City was named in his honor.
William Golay Boatright Esq, 32° (1896-1959) Attorney, co-organizer of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City.
Van Fremont Boor PGM, 33° (1861-1940) Teacher, Grand Master of Missouri Masons.
Congressman William Patterson Borland Esq, 32° KCCH (1867-1919) Five term Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, attorney, helped organize Kansas City School of Law.
Attorney General Louis C. Boyle Esq, 32° (1866-1925) Former Attorney General for the State of Kansas, practicing attorney in Kansas City, Missouri.
Judge Frederick Anselm Boxley Esq, 32° (1877-1936) Kansas City attorney, judge, master and referee in federal court, county counselor, associate of Judge Harry S. Truman.
Judge Darius Alvin Brown, 32° (1869-1938) Mayor of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri Circuit Court Judge, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1935.
William H. Brown Esq, 33° (1864-1916) Attorney, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine.
Consul Emile Stanislas Brus, 32° (1840-1919) French Consul to western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Long term Kansas City resident.
Frank Ireland Buckingham Esq, 33° (1873-1953) Attorney, Grand Orator for DeMolay, Conducted tour of Europe to evaluate youth groups.
Percy A. Budd PP Esq, 33° (1870-1953) Attorney, Potentate of Ararat Shrine - 1917, 1st Grand Treasurer of the Grand Council of the DeMolay.
Stratton D. Brooks, 33° (1870-1949) Teacher, President of the University of Oklahoma, President of the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Missouri State Senator Harold L. Caskey Esq, 32° (1938-2015) Served as Missouri State Senator for 28 years.
James E. Chandler, 33° PIP (1867-1941) President of the Meriden Creamery Company, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine1911, Past Imperial Potentate 1924-25.
Charles Henry Childs, 33° (1866-1933) Hotel proprietor involved in the purchase and reopening of the Savoy and the Baltimore Hotel.
Henry Clay Chiles Esq PGM, 33° (1886-1966) Attorney, Grand Master of Missouri, served as counsel during the Nuremberg Trials.
Congressman George H. Christopher, 32° (1888-1959) US Congressman in the 6th District from Missouri serving two terms (1949-1951) and from 1955 to his death in 1959.
William B. Clarke Esq, 32° (Apr 15, 1848-Feb 24, 1905) Occupation: Attorney, banker, investor, established the banking house of W. B. Clarke, later reorganized as the First National Bank; president of Kansas City's Merchants' Bank; major stockholder of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company; organized a corporation controlling all of the salt coming from Salt Lake City.
Franklin D. Crabbs, 33° (1857-1929) President of the Union Bank Note Company, Director of the Commerce Trust Company, served on the Mayors Citizen Bond Committee.
Mayor Frank Houghton Cromwell, 32° KCCH (1878-1955) Kansas City Mayor.
John Robinson Crowe, 32° (1857-1916) President, J.R. Crowe Coal & Mining Company and real estate investor in Kansas City.
Dr. Homer Cutler Crowell MD, 32° (1852-1918) Physician, co-organizer and first president of the Academy of Medicine, president of the Jackson County Medical Society.
Roger Cunningham, 33° (1853-1938) Engraver, journalist, entrepreneur, partner in Teachenor-Bartberger Engraving Company. His work is displayed in the Smithsonian Institute, the Pratt Institute of Technology and Boston Museum of Fine Arts display.
Ray Vaughn Denslow, 33° PGM (1885-1960) Co-publisher of the Trenton Daily News. Past Grand Master of Missouri Grand Lodge. Creator of the Royal Arch Magazine. Chairman of the Foreign Relief Committee of the Masonic Service Association traveling to Europe in 1945 and 1949 to assist Grand Lodges reopening there after the war. Prolific author of Masonic Books.
William Boyd Dickinson Esq, 33° (1876-1953) Attorney, real estate developer.
Governor Alexander Dockery, 32° (1845-1926) Governor of Missouri, physician, attorney, US Congressman, banker, Assistant U.S. Postmaster General.
Dr. Alfred Aldes Dunton MD, 33° (1854-1937) Physician
Henry Gossett Eager Esq, 32° KCCH (1923-1972) Attorney
Dr. Emmett Ellis Phd., 33° (1889-1972) Professor of Economics & Math for University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO.
Honorable Barron James Fradenburg, 33° (1867-1952) Kansas City Councilman and Chairman of the City's Natural Gas Committee; partner Fradenburg & Swearingen/Fradenburg & Trotter Insurance Co.
Dr. Oscar B. Hall MD, 32° (1868-1942) Physician
John T. Harding Esq PP, 33° (1866-1946) Attorney, Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1912.
Richard Erle Harkins, 33° (1932-2004) Executive director International Supreme Council, Order of DeMolay, Kansas City, Missouri, 1958-1978. Partner, president Seville Consultant, from 1979. President B-C One Incorporated, 1980-1985, Innovative Designs, Incorporated, Kansas City, from 1985.
Carl Adrian Harmon, 32° (1919-2014) President of Citizen's Bank, Central Mortgage Bancshares.
Dr. Edward H. Hashinger MD, 33° (1891-1970) UMKC Professor of Internal Medicine
Joseph D. Havens PP, 33° (1858-1918) President of Havens Printing Company, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1899-1900.
Raymond A. Havens PP, 33° (1884-1934) President of Havens Printing Company, President of Rotary International, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1915.
William Joseph Hill PPR PGM, 33° (1924-2015) Attorney, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri, Past Personal Representative for the Valley of Kansas City Scottish Rite.
Gary M. Hinderks PPR, 33° Grand Cross - Past Personal Representative for the Valley of St Joseph, Grand Cross recipient, member of the Valley of Kansas City.
Fred Clark Hoose, 33° (1868-1952) Vice-president of the Norris Grain Company.
Mayor Arnold George Holtan, 33° (1910-1991) Mayor of Grandview, MO., City Council Member, Grandview, MO.
Prosecutor Roland Hughes Esq, 33° (1855-1937) Teacher, attorney, Clinton County Prosecutor, Jackson County Prosecutor.
Governor Arthur Mastick Hyde Esq, 33° (1877-1947) Attorney, Mayor of Princeton, Missouri, Governor of Missouri, Secretary of Agriculture.
Judge Laurance Hyde, 32° (1892-1978) Attorney, City Attorney for Princeton, Missouri, Chief Justice, Missouri Supreme Court. Brother to Governor Arthur Mastick Hyde, 33°.
Mayor Henry Lee Jost Esq, 32° (1873-1950) Kansas City Mayor, US Congressman, attorney.
James Madison Kemper Sr., 32° (1894-1965) Banker, Commerce Trust Co.
R. Crosby Kemper Sr., 32° (1892-1972) President, City Bank, UMB.
William Thornton Kemper Sr., 32° (1866-1938) Patriarch of the Kemper banking family. Majority stockholder in the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad.
Rear Admiral Marvin Kennedy USN, 33° (1905-1997) Naval Commander during WWII.
Dr. John W. Kepner MD, 33° (1874-1931) Physician for the Willows Maternity Home.
George Edward Kessler, 32° (1862-1923) German-American Landscape Architect who contributed to the beautification Kansas City, Missouri designing parks and boulevards.
Charles T. Kornbrodt, 33° (1860-1947) Owner of Kornbrodt Kornice Company.
Robert Rochester Kreeger PGM, 33° (1856-1919) School teacher, deputy sheriff, Customs office supervisor, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri Masons (1908-1909).
Dr. William Frederick Kuhn MD PGM, 32° (1849-1924) Neurologist, professor of psychiatry at the University of Kansas, professor at University Medical College, past Grand Master of Missouri Masons.
Judge Thaddeus B. Landon PP PGM, 33° (1876-1944) Attorney, Circuit Court Judge, Assistant United States Attorney, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri, Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1922.
Dr. John Marion Langsdale, MD, 32° (1856-1942) 1892 - City Physician, 1890 - two terms Jackson County Coroner
Dr. Ernest J. Lutz MD, 33° (1865-1924) Physician, member of the faculty of the Medico-Chirurgical College, professor of internal medicine in the College of Physicians & Surgeons, in Kansas City, later merged with others to form the medical department of the University of Kansas.
Albert S. Marley Esq, 33° (1861-1936) Attorney, city attorney for the town of Westport.
Mayor Alden C. Millard, 33° (1838-1909) Manufacturer of boots & shoes, farmer, Mayor of Independence, Missouri, Justice of the Peace.
Dr. William Eli Minor MD, 32° (1865-1928) Physician, Minor Park was donated to Kansas City in Dr. Minor's honor.
Thomas R. Morrow Esq PP, 33° (1857-1921) Attorney at Lathrop, Morrow, Fox & Moore. General attorney for Kansas City Southern & Sante Fe Railroads. Charter member of the Consistory of Western Missouri in Kansas City and Past Deputy Inspector General of the Kansas City Scottish Rite, Potentate of Ararat Shrine1897-1898.
Petros Ferdinand Nishkian, 32° (1863-1925) Chief chemist for Armour & Company. First to develop advanced commericial application of feed rations for factory farming.
Mayor Joseph S. Noel, 32° (1894-1945) Mayor of Lee's Summit; grain, hay and feed wholesaler.
Eugene L. Novorr, 32° KCCH (1924-2011) Vice president, Michael's Clothing, Kansas City, Mo.
Howard I. Novorr, 32° KCCH (1922- 2014) Co-owner, Michael's Clothing, Kansas City, MO.
Michael H. Novorr, 32° (1896-1964) Owner of Michael's Fine Clothing, Kansas City, MO.
Richard Alan Novorr, 32° (1944-2014) President, Michael's Clothing, Kansas City, MO.
Louis P. Rothschild, 32° (1864-1934) Heir to Rothschild's Clothing Stores.
Congressman Isaac Newton "Ike" Skelton, 33° (1931-2013) Lafayette County Prosecutor, Missouri State Senator, served 17 years as a U.S. Congressman.
Honorable June A. Short, 32° (1923-2018) Attorney and Municipal judge for the City of Independence, Missouri.
Col. James G. Stowe, 33° (1840-1908) Entrepreneur, manufacturer, Consul General to South Africa.
Mayor George M. Shelley, 32° (1848-1929) served as Kansas City mayor, president of the city council, Kansas City Police Commissioner, city postmaster.
Mayor Bryce Byram Smith, 32° (1878-1962) Kansas City Mayor & city councilman. Formed what would become the General Baking Company.
J. Harold Snoddy, 33° (1895-1952) Tension Envelope executive, Kansas City, MO.
Robert R. Stevenson Esq PGM, 33° (1943-1925) Attorney, deputy sheriff, chief clerk for the Missouri Treasurer, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri Masons.
Honorable Orson H. Swearingen Esq PP, 33° (1871-1954) Attorney, assistant Jackson County prosecutor, Missouri state representative, Past Potentate of Ararat Shrine 1927.
President Harry S. Truman PGM, 33° (1884-1972) President of the United States, U.S. Senator, Grand Master of Missouri Masons.
R. Carter Tucker Esq, 33° (1893-1973) Attorney, Past President of Optimist International, Past President of the Kansas City Council of the Boy Scouts, a governor of the American Royal.
Henry Campbell Wells PGM, 33° (1864-1916) Banker, Grand Master of Missouri.
Walter Williams, 33° (1864-1935) Journalist, newspaper editor, established the famous Journalism School at University of Missouri. dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri and professor of history and principles of journalism, president of the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Fred O. Wood PP, 33° (1867-1941) Teacher, Exec Secretary of the Kansas City Scottish Rite, Director of the National Shrine Magazine, member of the original advisory council for Demolay, Potentate of Ararat Shrine - 1924.
Benjamin F. Wollman Esq, 32° KCCH (1872-1934) was a prominent Kansas City, Missouri attorney; president of the Royal Brewing Company of Weston, Missouri and of the Egbert Tobacco Company; director and general attorney of the Manufacturers' Coal and Coke Company.