Celia, the property of Robert Newsom, stood trial in Fulton, Missouri, in 1855 for the murder of her master, a…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court…
Henry S. Geyer was born in Frederick, Maryland, on December 9, 1790. He received a private…
Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of…
Abiel Leonard, a lawyer, jurist, and political leader, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on May…
When John B. C. Lucas died in St. Louis in 1842 at the age of eighty-four, his obituary…
Decided in 1873 by the Supreme Court of Missouri and in 1874 by the US Supreme Court, …
Homer G. Phillips was born in Sedalia, Missouri, on April 1, 1880. He was raised by an aunt…