Atchison is a city and county seat of Atchison County, Kansas, United States, and situated along the Missouri River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 11,021. The city is named in honor of David Rice Atchison, United States senator from Missouri, and was the original eastern terminus of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Atchison was the birthplace of aviator Amelia Earhart, and the Amelia Earhart Festival is held annually in July.
âDigory and Mabel Kirke. Mabel Kirke Ketterley was the mother of Digory Kirke, and sister to Andrew and Letitia Ketterley. It seems likely that she was the youngest of her siblings. Little is known about her life, but she was known to love to sing, and may have also played the piano.
Emmett Leo Kelly (December 9, 1898 â March 28, 1979), a native of Sedan, Kansas, was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure Weary Willie, based on the hobos of the Depression era. Kelly began his career as a trapeze artist. By 1923, Emmett Kelly was working his trapeze act with John Robinson's circus when he met and married Eva Moore, another circus trapeze artist. They later performed together as the Aerial Kellys with Emmett still performing occasionally as a white face clown.