| *The following from the San Antonio Library San Antonio (Texas) Express Monday morning, April 14, 1919 Veteran Commission Man, Major Drumm, dies here. Major Andrew Drumm Widely Known Stockman and Philanthropist. Maj. Andrew Drumm, aged 91 years, and a prominent citizen of Kansas City, Mo., died at a local sanitarium at 12:30 o’clock this (Monday) morning. Major Drumm is a native of Ohio, but is well known in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, having been engaged in cattle business in these states for 50 years. Although never living in Texas, in former years, he bought cattle here and drove them overland to market at Kansas City. For the last 5 years, he has been head of the Livestock Commission Company of Kansas City, and Institution, which extensively loans money to cattlemen. Major Drumm is said to have attended every Texas Cattleman’s convention for 30 consecutive years. It was while he was in Dallas attending the recent convention, that he became ill, and was brought immediately to San Antonio. Having no children, much of the estate accumulated by this pioneer cattleman has gone to endow a home for homeless and friendless children in Kansas City. He is survived by his widow, who is at present, in San Antonio. The body is being held at the Porter Loring mortuary, pending funeral arrangements. *Additional obituaries in book “Andrew Drumm Institute, The Vision Of Andrew Drumm”. |
| Founders of the Andrew Drumm Instiutute |
| Mrs. Andrew Drumm Kansas City Times October 8, 1937 Mrs. Cordelia Green Drumm, widow of Major Andrew Drumm, Pioneer, cattleman, and founder of the Andrew Drumm Institute for boys, died at 9:00 o’clock last night at her home at the Riviera apartments, 229 Ward Parkway, were she lived the last 6 years. Death came after an extended illness. Mrs. Drumm was vice president of the Drumm Institute, a home, and school for boys provided for by Major Drumm in his will. The cattleman died in 1919, leaving 2 million dollars, most is bequeathed To the Institution for the education and training of boys, now, on a farm, two miles southeast of Independence. LAST OF HER SCHOOL CLASS. The early days of Mrs. Drumm were spent in Liberty, Mo. She was a graduate of the Clay seminary for Girls, one of six girls to be graduated in 1862. At her death, she was the last survivor of that group, which included Mrs. Julia Howard Hurt, who died only a few weeks ago. Mementos of Mrs. Drumm’s girlhood, are now in the hands of a collector, to whom she sold them in 1936. She liked to recall the past, and carefully preserved the heirlooms of her family. In the collection is a hotel register from the old Green House in Liberty, Missouri, operated by her father in the 40’s and 50’s, and letters evidently handed down to her by her mother, which bore postmarks as far back as 1834. Known in her youth as “Cordie” Green, she was a favorite, among the young people of her time, and delivered the graduation oration for her class under the title, “Droppings From Wisdom’s Fount”. The manuscript, 75 years old, is still among her mementos. BECOMES A MUSIC TEACHER After graduation, Mrs. Drumm taught music. Several of her pupils, as indicated in a class book, are living in Liberty. A notation on the back of the book reads, “Began teaching music in Professor Hughes school October 5, 1868”. Her marriage to Andrew Drumm, was a long and monument to the memory of Major Drumm, was dedicated by his widow happy one. Until his death in 1919, they were inseparable. In 1932, on the site of a house he built in 1870 on his U ranch. This is about 9 miles northeast Of Cherokee, Oklahoma, on the edge of the Salt Plains. Andrew Drumm was in the gold rush of 1849 in California, traveling by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, and by steamer up the Pacific coast to San Francisco. He mined gold 20 years. Then he returned to the cattle business. At the height of his power as a cattleman 60 years ago, he had 150,000 acres fenced in as many as 50,000 cattle grazing at one time on his lands. A LIVESTOCK DEALER HERE Later, he came to Kansas City, and entered the livestock commission business, remaining in that line until his death. The dream of his last years was to create a place where boys could live the life of freedom and receive practical education, to make good citizens of them. His will established the Andrew Drumm Institute, and after his death, his wife was active in that Institution. Selected boys of high school age are taken to the farm and, under the direction of the superintendent, tilled the 370 acres, care for a 30 acre orchards, and a ten acre garden. Mrs. Drumm leaves two nieces, Mrs. Albert B. Bates and Mrs. Claribel Brimsmade, both of New York City. Notified of her death, last night, they made arrangements to Kansas City. |
| Major Andrew Drumm, Founder |
| Mrs. Cordelia Drumm, Founder |
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