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Stephanie L. O’Neal teaches at Missouri State University in Springfield.
Rolla Wells, a businessman and mayor of St. Louis, was born in St. Louis on June 1, 1856,…
Stephanie L. O’Neal teaches at Missouri State University in Springfield.
![Rolla Wells. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (St. Louis: Southern History Co., 1899)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-11/1.%20Rolla%20Wells.jpg?itok=P6eu5qVn "Rolla Wells. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (St. Louis: Southern History Co., 1899)]")
Rolla Wells, a businessman and mayor of St. Louis, was born in St. Louis on June 1, 1856,…