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.
Most well known today for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which is compulsory reading in most high schools, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was also a well-known early animal rights activist and feminist author of utopian science fiction. Born in 1860, she published Moving the Mountain in 1911 and Herland in 1915.