Candace O’Connor is a St. Louis-based freelance writer and editor who has written numerous books on Missouri history.

Articles Authored

Archer Alexander portrait

On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome bronze statue…

Anne Lucas Hunt. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1N34182]

We can guess the character of Anne Lucas Hunt by the good she did during her life and by…

Charles van Ravenswaay. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Charles van Ravenswaay Photograph Collection, P0014-027765]

Charles van Ravenswaay, an author, horticulturist, and museum director, was most of all…