The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
One of the key St. Louis businessmen and philanthropists of his generation in St. Louis,…
Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
Among the early artists to explore the trans-Mississippi River frontier, Karl Bodmer’s stay…
Henry Boernstein, a journalist and dramatist, was born Georg Christian Heinrich Börnstein…
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
Born in Ste. Genevieve on April 9, 1818, as a descendant of early French…
A group of German-Swiss immigrants landed in Philadelphia in 1710 and settled in southeast…
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a…
Daniel Boone is most commonly known as a hunter, trapper, and frontier settler, but he also…
Daniel Morgan Boone was born on December 23, 1769, the seventh child of …
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2,…
John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was…
A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry…
James Overton Broadhead was born on May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the oldest…
Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the…
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 Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne…
Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became…
Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic…
William C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in…
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…
George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples…