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Kay, James, Diary: Trip From Dover Tennessee to St. Joseph, 1850Entry/Object ID
AM1966.24.12Scope and Content
Kay, James, Diary: Trip From Dover Tennessee to St. Joseph, 1850.Trip was September and October of 1850. Donor was grandson of James Kay.
See Museum Graphic, Spring, 1967 for publication of this diary.
James Kay made the trip from Dover TN, on Sept. 10 up the Cumberland River to Paducah, down the Ohio to Cairo, up the Mississippi to Quincy and overland along the Missouri to St. Joseph, stopping and describing the towns and river as he went. He arrived Oct. 8.
In St. Joseph, he visited his sister, Helen (Kercheval) and arranged to rent a store building in St. Joseph, and began his trip home on Oct. 10.
Kay returned to St. Joseph with his family about 1852 and established one of the first big dry goods stores, Kay, Bailey & Company. His large home stood at 6th & Felix, where he lived for 28 years.
See 93.24.1 for photo of James Kay.Lexicon
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AM1966.024.00005, AM1966.024.00006, AM1966.024.00007, P1993.01H.00120, P1994.023.00001
