the State Historical Society of Missouri
John Neal Hoover is the executive director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association.
![Frederic L. Billon. [Billon, Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821 (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1888), frontispiece]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Frederic-Billon.jpg?itok=fhcoHv_g "Frederic L. Billon. [Billon, Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821 (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1888), frontispiece]")
Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in…
Articles Authored
![Morris Birkbeck. [Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois (Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1882)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Morris-Birkbeck.jpg?itok=dUJP8en5 "Morris Birkbeck. [Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois (Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1882)]")
An early pioneer-farming expert and author, Morris Birkbeck exerted an enormous influence…
![Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Daniel-Bissell.jpg?itok=92tSvLpV "Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]")
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
![William K. Bixby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20996]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-03/1-William-Bixby.jpg?itok=ld_4ijoa "William K. Bixby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20996]")
One of the key St. Louis businessmen and philanthropists of his generation in St. Louis,…
![Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Marie%20Brackenridge.jpg?itok=F2E8J7Ez "Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]")
A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…