The Star fought local saloons, advocated for infrastructure and successfully campaigned for the city’s Parks and Boulevards system, as well as calling on “Kansas City Spirit” to build Convention Hall in a timespan of just ninety days, allowing it to host the 1900 Democratic National Convention.
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Nelson went full throttle with the Star’s editorial, attempting to use his influence to help build the city as a whole. Within a year and a half, Morss retired due to health reasons, leaving Nelson the sole captain of the ship. The paper entered into a market that consisted of three already established competitors: the Kansas City Times the Kansas City Journal and the Kansas City Evening Mail. Their new newspaper, the Kansas City Evening Star, published its first issue on Saturday, September 18, 1880. Nelson and Morss identified Kansas City as the perfect location to set up a new publication, a booming, populous town ripe for commentary on the social and economic advancements of the country heading into the 20 th century. In the decade that followed, the population of Kansas City, newly recognized as a major rail centre, exploded. In 1869, after defeating the town of Leavenworth, Kansas for the privilege, Kansas City celebrated the opening of the Hannibal Bridge, the first permanent rail crossing over the Missouri River. However, at that time, Indiana was still largely an agricultural state, six years away from the beginning of the Indiana gas boom that would revolutionize industry in the state and lead to the expansion of cities such as Indianapolis and Fort Wayne.īy contrast, Kansas City, Missouri was already growing rapidly. Morss were co-owners of the Sentinel in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a newspaper previously owned by Nelson’s father. In 1880, William Rockhill Nelson and Samuel E. The first chapter in Kansas City Star history begins all the way back in the nineteenth century. Here we look back at the history of a paper that counts a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and a President of the United States amongst its former employees. After eliminating all of its competition, it became the sole provider of print news in the Kansas City area, as well as one of the largest newspapers in the Midwest. The Kansas City Star began life as the Evening Star way back in September 1880.
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