the State Historical Society of Missouri
![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…
![William Powell on a card distributed with packs of cigarettes. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, George Arents Collection, 1206072]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-William-Powell.jpg?h=b4a713c2&itok=Cspik1-I "William Powell on a card distributed with packs of cigarettes. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, George Arents Collection, 1206072]")
William Horatio Powell was the epitome of the suave, urbane leading man throughout his stage and film career…
![Wayne Powers with his family in France. [© Francois Gragnon / Paris Match / Scoop, used by permission]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-01/1.-wayne-powers.jpg?h=c0aa477a&itok=Ow5R4uvT "Wayne Powers with his family in France. [© Francois Gragnon / Paris Match / Scoop, used by permission]")
When Wayne E. Powers, a US Army private from Missouri, was arrested for desertion on March 22, 1958, it…
![Bernard Pratte. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N46666]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Bernard-Pratte.jpg?h=e60c9bd5&itok=y0XzssIr "Bernard Pratte. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N46666]")
Bernard Pratte’s father, Jean Baptiste, settled first on the east bank of the Mississippi.…
![Emil Preetorius. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N13088]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Emil-Preetorius.jpg?h=e9c34d74&itok=06wls-8f "Emil Preetorius. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N13088]")
Emil Preetorius was a German-language journalist in St. Louis. Born in Alzey, Rheinhessen, Germany, on March…
![Sterling Price. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.2001.40]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Sterling-Price.jpg?h=60c6e37a&itok=61UxQ2UK "Sterling Price. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.2001.40]")
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 11, 1809, Sterling Price was the son…
![Thomas Lawson Price. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1977.0004]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Thomas-Lawson-Price.jpg?h=e0ba2ebc&itok=g4PkisYU "Thomas Lawson Price. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1977.0004]")
Thomas Lawson Price was born on January 19, 1809, near Danville, Virginia. Although he was…
![Vincent Price in the Broadway production Diversions and Delights, 1978. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division, swope_630152]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Vincent-Price.jpg?h=7380a2c7&itok=NgrYPOu9 "Vincent Price in the Broadway production Diversions and Delights, 1978. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Division, swope_630152]")
Vincent Price, a versatile actor of stage, screen, and television, was born in St. Louis,…
![Red’s Giant Hamburg sometime after it closed in December 1984. [State Historical Society of Missouri, David Eslick Photograph Collection, SP0088, 1976-2001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-reds-giant-hamburg.jpg?h=cb1fa88b&itok=MzxABlva "Red’s Giant Hamburg sometime after it closed in December 1984. [State Historical Society of Missouri, David Eslick Photograph Collection, SP0088, 1976-2001]")
The original Red’s Giant Hamburg on Route 66 in Springfield, Missouri, was a legendary roadside spot for…
![William Marion Reedy in 1904. Photo by J. C. Strauss. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection N35138]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-12/1.-william-reedy_0.jpg?h=527257eb&itok=maIZJqYY "William Marion Reedy in 1904. Photo by J. C. Strauss. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection N35138]")
William Marion Reedy discovered, promoted, and nurtured some of America’s most important writers during his almost…
![Thomas Reynolds. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-003866]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Thomas-Reynolds.jpg?h=caeb754a&itok=8XTW_b2M "Thomas Reynolds. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-003866]")
Elected in 1840, Thomas Reynolds became the seventh Missouri governor. There are few…
![Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-thomas-caute-reynolds.jpg?h=b8c0628d&itok=IcKo6dOh "Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]")
Elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1860, Thomas Caute Reynolds worked diligently to separate Missouri…
![Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson. [Courtesy of Children’s Mercy Kansas City]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-11/1.%20Katharine%20Berry%20Richardson.jpg?h=b605a0a0&itok=_o9SvyvO "Dr. Katharine Berry Richardson. [Courtesy of Children’s Mercy Kansas City]")
Katharine Berry Richardson founded the highly respected Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas…
![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,…
![Peter Rindisbacher, portrait by George Markham. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 1985-101-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Peter%20Rindisbacher.jpg?h=e326f017&itok=qbsrCHhJ "Peter Rindisbacher, portrait by George Markham. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 1985-101-0001]")
Peter Rindisbacher’s paintings and watercolors are among the earliest images of the indigenous peoples and…
![This eighteenth-century map shows the mouth of the River Des Peres (unnamed, below St. Louis) and the Kaskaskia village to the south on the opposite side of the Mississippi, where the River Des Peres mission resettled after abandoning the site in what is now south St. Louis. [Frederick Charles Hicks, ed., A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20River%20Des%20Peres.jpg?h=eb73c7be&itok=AwSYZpcO "This eighteenth-century map shows the mouth of the River Des Peres (unnamed, below St. Louis) and the Kaskaskia village to the south on the opposite side of the Mississippi, where the River Des Peres mission resettled after abandoning the site in what is now south St. Louis. [Frederick Charles Hicks, ed., A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778]")
More than half a century before the founding of St. Louis, French priests established a…
![Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Joseph_Robidoux.jpg?h=8367ab58&itok=FkZ-VAhs "Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]")
Joseph Robidoux III, the eldest son of a large family, was born in St. Louis on August 10,…
![Hugh Robinson. [Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-11/1.-hugh-robinson.jpg?h=b8180e52&itok=v3Xdo6Gp "Hugh Robinson. [Courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University]")
Hugh Armstrong Robinson, a member of the distinguished Early Birds…
![Charles G. Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-20327]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Charles-Ross.jpg?h=6924a192&itok=0AxT_vHV "Charles G. Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-20327]")
Born in Independence, Missouri, on November 9, 1885, Charles G. Ross attended…
![Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nellie-Tayloe-Ross.jpg?h=efb5bc87&itok=My8xv_Wc "Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]")
Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor…
![Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Ferdinand-Rozier.jpg?h=fbd899b5&itok=vyvUpIp6 "Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]")
Ferdinand Rozier was an early resident of historic Ste. Genevieve and…
![Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Theodore-Pease-Russell.jpg?h=db1a3328&itok=6tNlCApu "Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]")
Born in 1820, Theodore Russell was the third son of Cyrus and Rebecca Russell, who…
![Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-10/1.-sac-and-fox.jpg?h=aa59a2db&itok=1y6DpE0c "Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]")
The Sac and Fox were not native to Missouri, but were significant in Missouri’s territorial and early…
![John S. Sappington. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Thomas Easterly Daguerrotypes Collection, Photographs and Prints Collection, N17356]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20John%20Sappington.jpg?h=ef00ba2b&itok=ARTN3m13 "John S. Sappington. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Thomas Easterly Daguerrotypes Collection, Photographs and Prints Collection, N17356]")