John Calvin McCoy
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John Calvin McCoy was an American land surveyor, missionary, and entrepreneur. He is considered the "father of Kansas City".
John Mc Coy portrait painting
Sculptures of Alexander Majors, John Calvin McCoy, and mountain man James Bridger are at Pioneer Square in Westport in Kansas City.
Isaac McCoy
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Isaac McCoy was an American pioneer and Baptist missionary among the Native Americans in what became the states of Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, and Kansas.
John Calvin McCoy
…Indiana on September 28, 1811. He studied as a land surveyor at Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky, during 1826–1827. He accompanied his parents Isaac and Christiana (Polk) McCoy to Kansas City to perform Baptist missionary work in 1830. After Isaac's death in 1846, John and Christiana moved back to…
1831 painting of McCoy
Baptism at Northolt Park Baptist Church