During April 23-24, 1891, a delegate convention called by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture met to plan for the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago. A committee known as the Bureau of Promotion was selected to plan for a later convention and election of a permanent board of managers. A board of nine members was elected September 16, 1891, known as the Board of Managers, Kansas Exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition Corporation. [Blackmar, Frank W. Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc., "Expositions, Industrial." http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1912/e/expositions_industrial.html (accessed November 6, 2008).] [Kansas Board of Managers, World's Fair, 1893. Report of the Kansas Board of Worlds' fair managers, containing report of the board of managers, Kansas exhibit, from April 1892 to March 1893, and transactions of the "Kansas Board of World's fair managers," from March 1893 to December 1893. http://www.archive.org/stream/reportofkansasbo00kansiala (accessed November 6, 2008).] [Wilder, Bessie. Governmental Agencies of the State of Kansas, 1861-1956. Lawrence: University of Kansas Publications, 1957.]
From the description of Records of the Kansas Board of World's Fair Managers, 1891 - 1894. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 692370968
