Walter S. Dickey

Walter S. Dickey

Walter S. Dickey (1862-1931) was a newspaper publisher, politician, and industrialist in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dickey was born in Toronto and moved to Kansas City in 1885.

In 1889, he established the W.S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company which started out creating ceramic pipes made of "burnt clay" that were used to drain farmland via tile drainage. The company had large plants in Pittsburg, Kansas and Deepwater, Missouri and made a fortune providing pipes for buried conduit lines of Bell Telephone.

He was chairman of the Missouri Republican Party and was to help engineer the victory of Herbert S. Hadley, the first Republican governor of Missouri since Reconstruction.

He owned the Kansas City Missouri River Navigation Company for river barges between Kansas City and [St. Louis, Missouri] until selling the entire fleet to the United States Army during World War I.

In the 1920s he purchased the Kansas City Post and Kansas City Journal combining them into the Kansas City Journal-Post.

He died at his home in the Rockhill neighborhood in 1931. His home was purchased by William Volker and donated to be the first building at the University of Kansas City which would become the University of Missouri - Kansas City. It is now called Scofield Hall.

References

* [http://www.kclibrary.org/localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=208158 Kansas City Public Library biography]


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