Excerpt from The Presbytery of Kansas City and Its Predecessors, 1821-1901: Historical Sketches and Statistical Matter Eighty years of exceedingly varied ecclesiastical history are herein reviewed. The period covered, though not longer than that of many lives still vigorous, extends from the earliest establishment of Foreign Mission work among the aboriginal inhabitants, through the exciting decades of frontier settlement, of ecclesiastical and civil strife, and of reconstruction in Church and State, well into the present era of peace and prosperity. The writing of this book was by no means a self-appointed task. No instructions accompanied the unexpected announcement of the writer as the chairman of a newly formed Committee on Presbyterial History. Supposing, however, that every Committee is appointed for work, the effort to collect materials of every sort bearing upon the history of this Presbytery and vicinity was immediately begun. Printed blanks were sent out asking for such statistical data as found in pp. 45-73 and 82-95. All discoverable Minutes Of the present Pres bytery and of its predecessors were next carefully read and indexed, and the remaining portions of the Chronological Register prepared. An unsuccessful effort was then made to have the Register published and the Committee discharged. Instead of that, it was decided to publish a Presbyterial History, which should include the Register and also historical sketches, a map and illustrations. The result is here with submitted. The effort to secure full illustration having failed, no illustrations are included except those of a few of the more promi nent of the deceased ministers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.