the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Henry Boernstein circa 1873. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20961]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Henry-Boernstein.jpg?h=d6ce1970&itok=1LiDP9uT "Henry Boernstein circa 1873. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20961]")
Henry Boernstein, a journalist and dramatist, was born Georg Christian Heinrich Börnstein…
![Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Lilburn-Boggs-Portrait.jpg?h=9196c627&itok=RNkG0lH8 "Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]")
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
![Lewis Bogy. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, LC-DIG-cwpbh-00128]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Lewis-Bogy.jpg?h=f831b2b7&itok=e7fp7aLh "Lewis Bogy. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, LC-DIG-cwpbh-00128]")
Born in Ste. Genevieve on April 9, 1818, as a descendant of early French…
![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…
![Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38643]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Benjamin%20Louis%20Eulalie%20de%20Bonneville.jpg?h=ddb83cf7&itok=c3bPaqAY "Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38643]")
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a…
![John Homer Bothwell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri General Assembly Portraits, P0217]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20John%20Homer%20Bothwell.jpg?h=357b2635&itok=GCDDnAWE "John Homer Bothwell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri General Assembly Portraits, P0217]")
John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was…
![Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Marie%20Brackenridge.jpg?h=a4270221&itok=PGRUmb1N "Henry Marie Brackenridge. [State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory]")
A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…
![James O. Broadhead. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2792]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20James%20O.%20Broadhead.jpg?h=2441e8f1&itok=bct3BZpL "James O. Broadhead. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2792]")
James Overton Broadhead was born on May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the oldest…
![Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Conrad%20Brokmeyer.jpg?h=00a5b231&itok=wKNu9a76 "Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]")
Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the…
![Nathaniel C. Bruce (right) and an unidentified student from the Bartlett Agricultural and Industrial School. [State Historical Society of Missouri photo collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel-C-Bruce.jpg?h=65d6c70f&itok=DxLXYkGH "Nathaniel C. Bruce (right) and an unidentified student from the Bartlett Agricultural and Industrial School. [State Historical Society of Missouri photo collections]")
Although his date of birth remains uncertain, Nathaniel C. Bruce was probably born in 1868…
Although Alexander Buckner served in Missouri’s 1820 Constitutional Convention, the state…
![DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-DeVerne-Calloway.jpg?h=6789cd7f&itok=GATiXLLc "DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]")
DeVerne Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne…
![Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Ernest-Calloway.jpg?h=4299bc80&itok=Zr6bOOin "Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]")
Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became…
![Robert Campbell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Robert%20Campbell.jpg?h=85a0f5f3&itok=g-85bsQq "Robert Campbell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38642]")
Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic…
![William C. Carr. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. [Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1970.156]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-02/1.%20William%20C.%20Carr.jpg?h=0f8654f6&itok=tR13o6kL "William C. Carr. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. [Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1970.156]")
William C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in…
![George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/George-Washington-Carver.jpg?h=c1b467ab&itok=XYqrNEG3 "George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]")
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…
![Carl Chapman at an unidentified archaeological site. [University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology and American Archaeology Division, 23SN202-2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Carl%20H.%20Chapman.jpg?h=85b4253e&itok=CIxXS6JP "Carl Chapman at an unidentified archaeological site. [University of Missouri, Museum of Anthropology and American Archaeology Division, 23SN202-2]")
Carl Haley Chapman has appropriately been called the dean of Missouri archaeology, a title…
![Joseph Charless. [Thomas J. Scharf, History of St. Louis City and County, vol. 2, 1883]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Joseph%20Charless.jpg?h=b77c6f65&itok=DIhTMCBf "Joseph Charless. [Thomas J. Scharf, History of St. Louis City and County, vol. 2, 1883]")
Joseph Charless, the first printer in St. Louis and father of journalism west of the…
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
![Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Marie-Therese-Bourgeois-Chouteau.jpg?h=fa71d962&itok=Z7OIpIoD "Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]")
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
Anna Lansing Clapp, president of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis, was born on August 28, 1814, at…
![Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/William-Clark-portrait-by-Peale.jpg?h=ccb5c4af&itok=ovJcr_ol "Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]")
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis …
![Painting titled Cler-mónt, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, 1834. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, SAAM-1985.66.29_1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Clermont%20II.jpg?h=ef4b444f&itok=kE06LUdf "Painting titled Cler-mónt, First Chief of the Tribe, by George Catlin, 1834. [Smithsonian American Art Museum, SAAM-1985.66.29_1]")
Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also…
Adaline Weston Couzins, a volunteer nursing escort and relief worker during the Civil War, was born in Brighton,…