John Neal Hoover is the executive director of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association.

Articles Authored

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 (1801–1895)

Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in…

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Morris Birkbeck. [Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois (Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1882)]
Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825)

An early pioneer-farming expert and author, Morris Birkbeck exerted an enormous influence…

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Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]
Daniel Bissell (1768?-1833)

The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…

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William K. Bixby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20996]
William Keeney Bixby (1857–1931)

One of the key St. Louis businessmen and philanthropists of his generation in St. Louis,…

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Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]
Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786–1871)

A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…

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