Sedalia
a city and county-seat of Pettis co., Mo.; on the Missouri Pacific , and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroads; 95 miles E. of Kansas City. Here are the Convent of St. Joseph, United States government building, hospital, Convention Hall, street railroad and electric light plants, National and State banks, and daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. The city has besides large locomotive and car shops, flouring mills, grain elevators, iron foundries, manufactories of farming implements, etc. During most of the Civil War the city was a United States military post. Pop. (1910) 17,822; (1920) 21,144.