1909-1932
Colonel of Engineers, Missouri National Guard, 1920-1933; Consulting Engineer, Jackson County Highways, 1928-1933; Major General, Missouri National Guard, 1938
The papers of E.M. Stayton include speeches and a report concerning Stayton’s work as an engineer in the fields of railroad location and construction, and his role in developing the Jackson County Highway System.
Size: 2.5 linear inches (about 50 pages).
Access: Open.
Copyright: No donation of copyright was released with this collection. Documents created by U.S. Government officials in the course of their official duties are in the public domain. Copyright interest in other documents in the collection presumably belongs to the creators of those documents, or their heirs.
Processed by: Molly Black (2019) as part of the Truman Library Internship Program.
Supervising Archivists: Randy Sowell and David Clark.
| 1874 (September 4) | Born Edward Moses Stayton, Independence, Missouri | |
| 1892-1894 | Student of Engineering, University of Missouri | |
| 1898 (July 26) | Married Bitha Estella Compton | |
| 1910-1914 | Captain, Missouri National Guard | |
| 1914-1917 | Major, Missouri National Guard | |
| 1917-1919 | Major and Lieutenant Colonel of Engineers, U.S. Army, with the American Expeditionary Forces | |
| 1920-1933 | Colonel of Engineers, Missouri National Guard | |
| 1926-1927 | Commander, American Legion of Missouri | |
| 1928-1933 | Consulting Engineer, Jackson County Highways | |
| 1933-1937 | Brigadier General, Missouri National Guard | |
| 1938 | Major General, Missouri National Guard | |
| 1940-1942 | Member, National Defense Committee, U.S. Chamber of Commerce | |
| 1954 (March 2) | Died, Independence, Missouri |
The papers of E. M. Stayton include speeches and a report concerning Stayton’s work as an engineer in the fields of railroad location and construction, and his role in developing the Jackson County Highway System.
The collection includes a report by Stayton and his collaborator, N. T. Veatch, to Harry S. Truman and the other members of the Jackson County Court on the need for new road construction in the county, as well as several speeches by Stayton on engineering issues.
This collection was previously open for research as part of the Miscellaneous Historical Documents Collection (MHDC 318).
More information on E. M. Stayton and the Jackson County Road System can be found at the Truman Library in the N. T. (Nathan Thomas) Veatch Papers and in the Library’s oral history interviews with Veatch and Rufus Burrus.
| Container Nos. | Series | |
| 1 | SUBJECT FILE, 1909-1932 Speeches and a report. Arranged alphabetically by folder title, and thereafter chronologically. |
Box 1
- Jackson County Highway System Report
- Speeches