Robert Alexander Long (1851–1934) was a Missouri lumber baron, millionaire, and philanthropist. 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Someone who practices Philanthropy. ...

Long made his fortune in lumber operating the Long-Bell Lumber Company. He founded the city of Longview, Washington, a "planned city" built in 1923 around two of Long-Bell's lumbermills. He personally donated the city's public library, first high school, YMCA hall and its Monticello Hotel. Longview is a city in Cowlitz County, Washington, United States. ... YMCAs in the United States and Canada use this logo. ...

Long's city home in Kansas City, Corinthian Hall, is now the Kansas City Museum. Longview Farm was built in 1913-1914 on the outskirts of Kansas City. Portions of the farm are now sites of Longview College and of Longview Lake. Nickname: City of Fountains or Heart of America Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. ...

Long was a driving force behind the creation of Kansas City's Liberty Memorial, a World War I museum and monument. Liberty Memorial Liberty Memorial, in Kansas City, is dedicated to the victory of liberty over oppression, in World War I against the Triple Alliance. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Robert Nivelle Herbert Henry Asquith Sir Douglas Haig Sir John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow...

Though noted to giving back to society, Robert A. Long also had a dark side. Long was an active member in the Ku Klux Klan.

Sources

• Biography of Robert Alexander Long from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918
• Robert A. Long (PDF), speech by J.C. Nichols, April 30, 1925.
• History of Longview Farm
• History of Longview, Washington
• Liberty Memorial web site