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.
Doleâs deadpan response: âYeah, well â¦ Quayle was Quayle.â. Shelby Smith, the 86-year-old former lieutenant governor of Kansas who attended Doleâs morning event, said no one was more fun on the trail than Dole. He recalled an occasion when he and Dole were pulled over for speeding to an event after the senatorâs flight to Wichita was delayed by snow.