Robert A. Long
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Robert Alexander Long (1851–1934) was a Missouri lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist.
Long made his fortune in lumber operating the Long-Bell Lumber Company. He founded the city of Longview, Washington, a "planned city" built in 1923 around two of Long-Bell's lumbermills. He personally donated the city's public library, first high school, YMCA hall and its Monticello Hotel.
Long's city home in Kansas City, Corinthian Hall, is now the Kansas City Museum. Longview Farm was built in 1913-1914 on the outskirts of Kansas City. Portions of the farm are now sites of Longview College and of Longview Lake.
Long was a driving force behind the creation of Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, a World War I museum and monument.
Though noted for giving back to society, Robert A. Long also had a dark side. Long was an active member in the Ku Klux Klan.
[edit] Sources
- Biography of Robert Alexander Long from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918
- Robert A. Long (PDF), speech by J.C. Nichols, April 30, 1925.
- History of Longview Farm
- History of Longview, Washington
- Liberty Memorial web site
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