Chalfant: Jaynes family made positive imprint on city

In the years following the Civil War, many businessmen and investors moved into the newly established town of Sedalia. As time passed, some of these men founded banks, organized railroads, served on the boards of one another’s enterprises and held city and county offices. Their families became Sedalia’s “society,” a term defined by one Sedalia wit as those whose activities are important enough to their clique that they are written about in the paper for those outside the clique to read about.

One of the most important of Sedalia’s business leaders was Col. Anderson D. Jaynes, who came from Ohio with his wife and children. The 1882 History of Pettis County praised him for leading “his neighbors into new schemes for the building of a new city,” including First National Bank, the Tebo and Neosho Railroad (later the MK&T), the Lexington and St. Louis branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the city’s waterworks

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