Ewing kauffman family tree
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Ewing Kauffman
Like many successful owners, longtime Kansas City Royals magnate Ewing Kauffman could be highly demanding, both publicly and privately. Yet he was one of the few also celebrated by the community and his players for his generosity and obvious caring for their wellbeing. Kauffman made his fortune as a pharmaceutical entrepreneur in the decades after World War II, primarily on the strength of his drive, sales skills, and his active, creative mind. His compelling personality along with his ability to connect with a diverse range of individuals made him one of baseball’s more beloved owners.
“When he walked in that first meeting, I don’t know how to put it other than there was as presence in the room, even among accomplished baseball men,” longtime Royals scout Art Stewart remembered. “He just carried himself with this dynamic air of confidence. … He sort of glided into the room and introduced himself to those of us who hadn’t met him. Then he takes his coat off, rolls up his sleeves and addresses the room with the perfect blend of confidence and humility. … The moti
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Milestones and pivotal moments from Ewing Kauffman’s birth to his release from active military duty.
Ewing Marion Kauffman is born to John Samuel Kauffman and Effie Mae Winders Kauffman on Thursday, September 21, 1916, on the family farm in western Missouri about a mile southeast of Garden City.
Shortly after Ewing’s birth, the Kauffman family moves to a 480-acre farm in Creighton, Missouri. Ewing and his older sister, Erma Ruth Kauffman, start school in Creighton. As a first grader, Ewing excels in a class that includes second and third graders. He wins an elementary school spell-down and his teacher presents him with a copy of The Little Lame Prince. At the end of his first school year Ewing is promoted to the third grade. On Saturday nights the Kauffmans invite friends and neighbors over and Ewing stands at his father’s shoulder watching hands of pinochle play out around the kitchen table.
The Kauffman family farm suffers a series of setbacks in Creighton. Ewing’s father has an accident when loading cattle into a railroad car bound for K
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Kauffman, Ewing Marion
(b. 21 September 1916 in Garden City, Missouri; d. 1 August 1993 in Kansas City, Missouri), self-made billionaire and philanthropist who founded the Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company Marion Laboratories and was the owner of the Kansas City Royals baseball team.
Kauffman was one of two children of John Samuel Kauff-man, a mathematics whiz and insurance salesman, and Ef-fie Mae Winders, a teacher and homemaker. He was named for Anna Ewing Cockrell, the wife of the Missouri senator Brigadier General Francis Marion Cockrell, and for John Marion Winders, his maternal grandfather. A brilliant child and an Eagle Scout who finished everything he started, Kauffman swam twice a day and once swam 240 feet under water without coming up for air. He was a member of Mensa, a prestigious group of intellectuals with IQs above the genius level, which he joined in childhood.
As a child Kauffman suffered from endocarditis, a heart ailment that kept him bedridden at the age of eleven. He passed the time with books, reading the Bible, biographies of American presidents a
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