Edwards had been adjutant of Confederate general Joseph O. Shelby's division during the American Civil War.

[1] In 1871, the Kansas City Times proclaimed itself, "the voice of the southern Democracy, and the latter-day champion of the unrepentant Confederacy".

[2] William Rockhill Nelson bought the Times on October 19, 1901, mainly because he wanted its Associated Press wire.

The Star and Times were locally owned by employees until 1977, when they were sold to Capital Cities.

On March 1, 1990, The Star (then under ownership of Capital Cities/ABC) applied its name to the morning paper and The Times name disappeared, meaning that Kansas City no longer had an afternoon daily.