Lynn Morrow is the retired director of the Missouri State Archives Local Records Preservation Program.

Articles Authored

Bollinger’s Mill. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-65211]
George Frederick Bollinger (1771?–1842)

A group of German-Swiss immigrants landed in Philadelphia in 1710 and settled in southeast…

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John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]
John Wesley Emerson (1830–1899)

John Emerson, a lawyer in Ironton, Missouri, became a small-town Victorian gentleman who…

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Westport Landing by pioneer and watercolor artist W. H. Jackson. [William Henry Jackson, Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 19]
William Gilliss (1788–1869)

Later in life William Gilliss would be a successful trader, real estate speculator, and…

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Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]
Nathaniel N. Kinney (1839–1888)

Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…

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Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photograph Collection, P0300]
Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey (1877–1948)

Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey was a lifelong newspaper and magazine journalist, and a regional poet. Born in Boone…

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