the State Historical Society of Missouri
Perry McCandless was a professor of history at the University of Central Missouri.
Born in Ste. Genevieve on April 9, 1818, as a descendant of early French…
Missouri’s fifth governor, Daniel Dunklin, was born on January 14, 1790, in the Greenville…
James S. Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on February 28, 1817, and settled in…
Hancock Lee Jackson was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on May 12, 1796. He married…
Alexander McNair, the first governor of the state of Missouri, was born in what was then…