Short branches from main line led to West Norfolk, Hitchcock Mills, and Buffalo Lithia Springs, Virginia, and a 50-mile narrow gauge line ran from Emporia, at a junction with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL), northeast to Claremont on the James River.
He attended Emporia State Teaching College in Emporia, Kansas, during the summer and the following autumn became principal of a school in Thrall, Kansas.
Prior to his assignment in the Philippines by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, Hibbard obtained his undergraduate degree from Emporia College in Emporia, Kansas.
Collins took a year hiatus, to return to teaching elementary at a local school, in Emporia, Kansas.
The first automated Spanish language weather bulletins using this method aired in 1997 on KANS-FM in Emporia, Kansas.
William Lindsay White was the only son of William Allen and Sallie White, born in Emporia on June 17, 1900.
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Since retiring from the NBA, Stith has been involved in NASCAR, in which he owns a team with race car driver and fellow Emporia native, Hermie Sadler.
Because Emporia had these two colleges before 1900 it was sometimes called the "Athens of Kansas."
A 5th generation Kansan of mixed German, Scots, Lenape (Delaware), English, French, and Cherokee heritage, she was born and grew up in Emporia, Kansas, where she began her writing career as a high school correspondent for the Emporia Gazette.
The theatre was dedicated on October 3, 1929, in a speech by “The Sage of Emporia,” William Allen White.
The current head football coach at Emporia State is Garin Higgins, who has held the position since 2007.
It is located at the intersection of I-35 and the Kansas Turnpike in Emporia, Kansas, a city in the heart of the beautiful rangeland known as the Flint Hills and just a short distance from the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.
Keith Waldrop (born December 11, 1932, in Emporia, Kansas) is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others.
KJIL is also heard on translators throughout Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado, as well as on full power stations KJRL 105.7 in Herington, Kansas, KJLG 91.9 in Emporia, Kansas, KJVL 88.1 in Hutchinson, Kansas, KJLJ 88.5 in Scott City, Kansas, KNGM 88.9 in Guymon, Oklahoma, KJOV 90.7 in Woodward, Oklahoma, and KJHL in Boise City, Oklahoma.
Selves played offense and defense for the College of Emporia Fighting Presbies in Emporia, Kansas, playing on the undefeated 1928 team coached by Rosy Harr.
U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress.
In Anglo-Saxon England the "-wich towns" designated by the suffix -wic identified coastal trading settlements, equivalents of emporia, provisioned from outside the protected community and characterised by extensive artisanal activity and imports, which have left material traces in excavations.
Artist Wilber Moore Stilwell was born February 2, 1908 and in 1909 moved with his family from Covington, Indiana to Emporia, Kansas where he was raised.