Adaline Weston Couzins, a volunteer nursing escort and relief worker during the Civil War, was born in Brighton,…
Phoebe Wilson Couzins, a lawyer and suffragist, was born on September 8, 1842, to John Edward Decker and…
Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1908, in what she described as “a drab…
Jane Darwell, a pioneering film actress whose career spanned more than sixty years, was…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
Curt Flood spent most of his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing center field for them from 1958…
Established in 1808 under the superintendence of William Clark, Fort Osage served as a US military outpost and a…
Daniel Marsh Frost, a Confederate army officer, was born on August 9, 1823, in Mariaville,…
Gert Goebel came to Missouri in 1834 as an eighteen-year-old German immigrant, settling in…
Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…
Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. Her…
Born on September 10, 1835, in North Killington, Connecticut, William Torrey Harris was a…
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, on September 11, 1833, to Quaker parents the Reverend…
Christian Hawken, a respected gunsmith of Hagerstown, Maryland, taught his six sons and…
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
In some respects, William Jewell’s story is similar to those of thousands of others who…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…