the State Historical Society of Missouri
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
Born on September 10, 1835, in North Killington, Connecticut, William Torrey Harris was a…
![Kathryn J. Kuhlman. [Courtesy of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Kathryn_Kuhlman.jpg?h=71eec0dc&itok=gcLwm7Sd "Kathryn J. Kuhlman. [Courtesy of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives]")
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, born in Concordia, Missouri, on May 9, 1907, became…
![A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Pierre%20Gabriel%20Marest.jpg?h=816a8e6d&itok=isPnDzQI "A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]")
Pierre Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit priest in the Illinois Country, was among a group of French…
![Isaac McCoy. [Oklahoma Historical Society, Muriel Wright Collection, 15075]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Isaac%20McCoy.jpg?h=f693cbf2&itok=M-IXdp5f "Isaac McCoy. [Oklahoma Historical Society, Muriel Wright Collection, 15075]")
Isaac McCoy was born on June 13, 1784, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. At the age of six,…
![John Berry Meachum. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection (S0336), photo no. 336.638]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20John%20Berry%20Meachum.jpg?h=a2b2f115&itok=knUAlIJQ "John Berry Meachum. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection (S0336), photo no. 336.638]")
John Berry Meachum, best known for his important roles as a spiritual leader, educator, and…
![Truman Marcellus Post. [T. A. Post, Truman Marcellus Post, D.D.: A Biography Personal and Literary, 1891]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Truman-Marcellus-Post.jpg?h=beea1a51&itok=AybEUnke "Truman Marcellus Post. [T. A. Post, Truman Marcellus Post, D.D.: A Biography Personal and Literary, 1891]")
Truman Marcellus Post, a religious and cultural leader of St. Louis, was born in Middlebury…
![Sidney Rigdon. [Courtesy of the Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Sidney%20Rigdon.jpg?h=efaab4c8&itok=q4aZq9Vt "Sidney Rigdon. [Courtesy of the Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]")
Born on February 17, 1793, on a farm near St. Clair Township, in Allegheny County,…
![Denton Jacques Snider. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 27, 1925]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Denton%20Jacques%20Snider.jpg?h=f1182d8a&itok=Nm5PmR-N "Denton Jacques Snider. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 27, 1925]")
Denton Jacques Snider, born on January 9, 1841, in Mount Gilead, Ohio, was a literary…