In the 19th and early 20th century, Sedalia was the home of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad hospital, where railroad employees from the M.K. &T Railroad were brought for treatment.
The great movement into Bartlesville as the Santa Fe Railroad began operation brought a diversity of busineses as well as oil interests into Bartlesville.
In 1901, there stood a small, square frame house on the South Side of Market Street, nearby to Hannibal’s old West School. Within the confines of this dwelling lived the