Coffeyville, Kansas, boasts the home of gas, oil and lumber magnate William P. Brown, which is now a public museum. William Pitzer Brown was born in June 1861 to Rufus and Violetta Brown in ...

In the 1890s, Coffeyville, in southeastern Kansas, had outgrown its early reputation as a cowtown. A number of businesses made the town a center of commerce and an active citizenry undertook a ...