The following is a list of people who were born in, have lived in, or are otherwise associated with American city of Sedalia, Missouri; they are known as Sedalians. In addition to what follows, a list of more than fifty Sedalia "Old Timers", who had met at the Sedalia Courthouse on the previous evening, was published in the December 12, 1893, issue of the Sedalia Bazoo; the list indicated when they had arrived in Sedalia, and from whence they had come.[1]
Elizabeth Jane Dugan (?1848–1911) – also known as "Rosa Pearle"; poet; journalist (started with the Sedalia Bazoo; founder and editor of the Saturday-evening society weekly Rosa Pearle's Paper (1894–1911)[7]
Hazel Norinne Lang (1903–1996) – journalist, reporter and feature writer with the Sedalia Democrat (1925–1970); poet; historian (author of Only Human; Poems of Everyday Life, Exposition Press, (New York), 1955, and the 1,112-page Life in Pettis County, 1815–1873, published in Sedalia, in 1975)[9]
John Henry Parker – Brigadier General, United States Army; West Point Graduate; war hero; first to recognize the tactical advantages of machine guns to continuously support advancing infantry and protect artillery trains (carriages pulled by draft animals); awarded the Distinguished Service Cross four times, for valor displayed on four separate occasions, during 1918[2][12]
William S. Triplet (1900–1994) – Colonel United States Army; professional soldier; West Point graduate (1924); served in both World War I and World War II[14]
Hazel Palmer – first female assistant prosecuting attorney in Sedalia, the first female county collector, and the first female magistrate judge of Pettis County; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958; president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women (1956–1958)[2][22]
Donald J. Stohr (1934–2015) – United States District Court judge; was born in Sedalia.[23]
Mayors of Sedalia
On February 15, 1864, the Missouri General Assembly passed a bill granting Sedalia a city charter. The charter appointed the first city officers who served until elections were held in April 1864.[24] The term of office for Mayor was one-year from 1864 to 1886; was two-years from 1886 to 1938; and four-years from 1938 until present. City municipal elections are held in April.
^Walker-Hill, Helen (1992). "Music by Black Women Composers at the AMRC". American Music Research Center Journal, Vol. 2, pp.32-33. University of Colorado. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
^Chalfant, R., "Dugan, Elizabeth Jane (Rosa Pearle) (1848?–1911)", pp. 263–264 in Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN0-8262-1222-0.
^Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2000. ISBN0-8262-1290-5; Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), A Colonel in the Armored Divisions: A Memoir, 1941–1945, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2001. ISBN0-8262-1312-X; Triplet, W.S. (Ferrell, R.H. ed.), In the Philippines and Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945–1948, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 2001. ISBN0-8262-1335-9.
^Claycomb, W.B., "Gentry, William (1818–1890)", pp. 334–335 in Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN0-8262-1222-0.
^Chalfant, R., "Bothwell, John Homer (1848–1929)", pp. 106–107 in Christensen, L.O. (ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN0-8262-1222-0.
^I. MacDonal Semuth, History of Pettis County Missouri, The Printery, 1882, Pages 496-500. (Full list of city officers who have served from those first appointed by charter through June 1882)
^Cassity, M., " Smith, George Rappeen (1804–1879)", p. 702 in Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN0-8262-1222-0 Appears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzAppears in a list of "Mayors of Sedalia" at Ihrig, B.B. et al. (1960), p. 119.
^* Conroy, M.S. (2006), The Soviet Pharmaceutical Business During the First Two Decades (1917-1937), New York, NY: Peter Lang. ISBN978-0-8204-7899-9; Conroy, M.S. (2014), The Cosmetics Baron You’ve Never Heard Of: E. Virgil Neal and Tokalon (Third Edition), Englewood, CO: Altus History LLC. ISBN978-0-9826-3142-3; Yeates, Lindsay B. (2016), "Émile Coué and his Method (I): The Chemist of Thought and Human Action", Australian Journal of Clinical Hypnotherapy & Hypnosis, Volume 38, No.1, (Autumn 2016), pp. 3–27; "E. Virgil Neal Passes Away at Geneva on June 30", The Sedalia Democrat, (July 3, 1949), p.7.
Further reading
Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. ISBN0-8262-1222-0
Ihrig, B.B. et al. (eds), The First One Hundred Years, A History of the City of Sedalia, Missouri, 1860–1960, Centennial History Committee, Sedalia, 1960.
Scotten, F.C., History of the Schools of Pettis County, Missouri, 1974; Prepared under the Direction of C. F. Scotten, C.F. Scotton, (Sedalia) 1974.
Bird, Kenneth L. "Rail to The Osage" The story of the Sedalia Warsaw & Southern Railroad, Menwith Publications,(Lincoln, Mo), 2009. ISBN978-1-61584-215-5
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