the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Bollinger’s Mill. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-65211]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20George%20Frederick%20Bollinger.jpg?h=2e7ead55&itok=rso3eV9U "Bollinger’s Mill. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-65211]")
A group of German-Swiss immigrants landed in Philadelphia in 1710 and settled in southeast…
Although Alexander Buckner served in Missouri’s 1820 Constitutional Convention, the state…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
![1. This watercolor portrait of Henry Dodge was painted by George Catlin during the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition of 1834. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1962-192-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Henry%20Dodge.jpg?h=300a9ea0&itok=b4wr44H6 "1. This watercolor portrait of Henry Dodge was painted by George Catlin during the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition of 1834. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1962-192-0001]")
Henry Dodge served his nation in a long and prosperous life on the nineteenth-century…
![John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-John-Wesley-Emerson.jpg?h=698ee15c&itok=_VkQiIl9 "John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]")
John Emerson, a lawyer in Ironton, Missouri, became a small-town Victorian gentleman who…
![This depiction of colonial Ste. Genevieve by artist Oscar Berninghaus is among the murals in the Missouri State Capitol. [State Historical Society of Missouri, color transparency in Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-017298-1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Augustin%20Charles%20Fremon%20de%20Lauriere_0.jpg?itok=B9g8N34s "This depiction of colonial Ste. Genevieve by artist Oscar Berninghaus is among the murals in the Missouri State Capitol. [State Historical Society of Missouri, color transparency in Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-017298-1]")
The French Revolution induced many royalists to emigrate to the Louisiana Territory in the…
![Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Phoebe-Apperson-Hearst.jpg?h=1b8b84bf&itok=qbqmm_sb "Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]")
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the…
![Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-09/1.%20Lewis%20Linn.jpg?h=40f6870e&itok=nj-lCZUQ "Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]")
A frontier doctor, Jacksonian Democrat, and US senator, Lewis F. Linn has been called both…
![A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-05/1.%20Father%20Meurin_0.jpg?h=e873ed3d&itok=KdWbvtwt "A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]")
Sebastien Louis Meurin served as the parish priest in Ste. Genevieve from 1764 through 1768…