At the river's bend by Sherry Lamb Schirmer

Kate Hewitt donated her farmland for the university, while Newcomb and Waldorf organized fundraising drives, sought church support, and even ordered architectural drawings to be made. Hewitt, a local philanthropist, and Bishop E. Newcomb, an experienced high school and college administrator, Kate B. The leaders who advanced the Lincoln and Lee movement the furthest were Ernest H. University of Kansas City administration building, circa 1930s The proposed Methodist university would have been known as 'Lincoln and Lee University,' a name which acknowledged leaders from both sides of the Civil War in an attempt to sooth divisions between the northern and southern branches of Kansas City's Methodist churches.

In truth, the UKC Board of Trustees required assistance from an earlier movement that in 1925 had sought to establish a Methodist university on farmland at the intersection of 75th and State Line. Undaunted by the 1929 stock market crash and subsequent economic depression, a group of business leaders and philanthropists obtained a charter for the University of Kansas City (UKC) and began a fundraising campaign. Various technical, medical, and trade schools had existed in Kansas City since the late 19th century, but the city lacked its own comprehensive four-year university. Local business leaders had long envisioned a university that would add to Kansas City's existing assets. University of Kansas City administration building, 1933

At the river's bend by Sherry Lamb Schirmer