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Lee's Summit is a city in the state of Missouri, and is contained within the counties of Jackson (primarily) and Cass. As of the 2010 census found the population at 91,364 making it the sixth-largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and the sixth-largest city in Missouri.〔http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_c38a8008-9a8d-532a-a8cd-5a2deed96041.html〕 In 2006 CNN/Money and ''Money'' magazine ranked Lee's Summit 44th on its list of the 100 Best Cities to Live in the United States.〔(Best Places to Live 2006 ) - ''Money Magazine''〕 That ranking improved to 27th on the 2010 list. ==Origin of name== Founded as the "Town of Strother", by William B. Howard for his wife, Maria D. Strother (daughter of William D. Strother formerly of Bardstown, Kentucky). Howard came to Jackson County in 1842 from Kentucky, married Maria in 1844, and by 1850 he and Maria had and a homestead five miles (8 km) north of town. He was arrested for being a Confederate in October 1862, near the beginning of the Civil War, and after being paroled he took his family back to Kentucky for the duration of the war. After the war ended he returned and, knowing that the Missouri Pacific Railroad was surveying a route in the area, platted the town with in the fall of 1865 as the town of Strother.〔(History of the City of Lee's Summit )〕〔Wilcox, Pearl, (1975). - ''Jackson County Pioneers''. - Independence, Missouri. - pp.107-108. - Retrieved: 2008-07-06〕 In 1865 the town of Strother changed its name for early settler Dr. Pleasant John Graves Lea, who moved to Jackson County in 1849, from Bradley County, Tennessee. Lea was listed as the postmaster of Big Cedar in the 1855 ''United States Official Postal Guide''.〔"List of Postmasters". - ''United States Official Postal Guide''. - United States Post Office Dept. - July 1, 1855. - Retrieved: 2008-07-06〕 Dr. Lea was killed in August 1862 by Kansas Jayhawkers (or Redlegs).〔''Lee's Summit Centennial, 1876-1965''. - June 1965. - p.6. - Retrieved: 2008-07-06〕 When the surveyors for the Missouri Pacific Railroad came through, the local people and the railroad wanted to name the town in Dr. Lea's honor. He had a farm on the highest point and near the path of the tracks, and his murder had taken place near the site of the proposed depot. So they chose the name of "Lea's Summit", the "summit" portion to reflect its relatively highest elevation on the Missouri Pacific Railroad between St. Louis and Kansas City.〔''History of Jackson County''. - Kansas City: Union Historical Company. - 1881. - pp.341-343.〕 But they misspelled the name "Lees Summit" (with two "e's"; "Lee" instead of "Lea"; and leaving out the apostrophe) on a boxcar that was serving as a station and donated by the Missouri Pacific,〔("Introduction: History" ). - ''Lee's Summit Comprehensive Plan''. - City of Lee's Summit, Missouri. - Retrieved: 2008-07-07〕 then a sign next to the tracks, and finally in the printed time schedule for the railroad.〔(Historic Preservation Plan: City of Lee’s Summit, Missouri ). - Historic Preservation Services, LLC. - September 1, 2002. - (Adobe Acrobat *.PDF document). - Retrieved: 2008-07-06〕 Also the name was misspelled on the stone culvert near the station, on the side of the Missouri Pacific depot, but on the other side it was spelled correctly, accordingly the railroad used this spelling, as did travelers.〔(Historical Overview of 19th Century Stone Culverts: Prairie Township ). - Architectural and Historical Research. - Retrieved: 2008-07-06〕〔''Kansas City Star''. - April 27, 1908. - Retrieved: 2008-07-06〕 Others, those with Southern sympathies, claim that the town was named after famed Civil War General Robert E. Lee after Southerners began moving north into Missouri after the war.〔〔 Attributed to a misquote in the ''Louisville Journal'', January 3, 1866.〔 Since the name was already being circulated and published with two "e's", the town petitioned the state legislature and incorporated its name in 1868 as: "Town of Lee's Summit".〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lee's Summit, Missouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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