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| Title | August Meyer |
| Abstract | Biographical sketch of August Meyer (1851-1905), a civil engineer and native of Saint Louis, Missouri, coming to Kansas City in 1881 as a mining investor and co-founder of the park board and the park and boulevard system here. |
| Notes | "A large fund was subscribed and collected [for the August Meyer memorial statue] and a commission given to Daniel Chester French [or Daniel French], the eminent American sculptor, to execute a portrait study of heroic size, which was placed in one of the public parks in the year 1908" (p. 197). |
| Author | Carrie Westlake Whitney
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| Date | 1908 |
| Source | Kansas City, Missouri: Its History and Its People, 1800-1908 |
| Location | MVSC Q 977.8411 W61 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Page | 194-197 |
| Local Subject | Meyer, August R.
Park and Boulevard System
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| Illustrations | Yes |
| Item Type | Book Section
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| Access This Item | This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests |
| Item ID | 117199 |
| CONTENTdm number | 6778 |
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