the State Historical Society of Missouri
![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]")
Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in…
![Carl O. Sauer. © Chicago Maroon. [University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf7-01181]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Carl%20Ortwin%20Sauer.jpg?h=6c625ccc&itok=a1XrS63T "Carl O. Sauer. © Chicago Maroon. [University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf7-01181]")
Carl Sauer probably had a more profound effect on American geographic thought than any…
![Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Dan-Saults.jpg?h=fbb74155&itok=5Cih8Mos "Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]")
Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years. Trained…
![John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John-McAllister-Schofield.jpg?h=7d9c607f&itok=60oOMUSh "John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]")
John McAllister Schofield was born in Gerry, Chautauqua County, New York, on September 2,…
![Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Henry-Rowe-Schoolcraft.jpg?h=604cd0e2&itok=nO__aAnQ "Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]")
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…
![An early twentieth-century postcard of Stewart Bridge, where a mob killed James T. Scott in the early hours of April 29, 1923. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John W. Coffman Collection of University of Missouri Postcards (P305), 010783-1]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-12/1.%20James%20Scott%20Lynching.jpg?h=40f6148b&itok=WEKUFYY0 "An early twentieth-century postcard of Stewart Bridge, where a mob killed James T. Scott in the early hours of April 29, 1923. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John W. Coffman Collection of University of Missouri Postcards (P305), 010783-1]")
James T. Scott (1885?–1923) was the victim of one of the most…
An unheralded Afro-Indian enslaved woman’s dreams of freedom propelled one of the most…
![Elizabeth Seifert in 1938. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Pearl Boucher Matthews Scrapbook, C4587]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-09/1.-elizabeth-seifert.jpg?h=812ea0fa&itok=5McMPfpL "Elizabeth Seifert in 1938. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Pearl Boucher Matthews Scrapbook, C4587]")
Elizabeth Seifert published her first book in 1938 when she was forty-one years old. As one of thirteen…
![James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-James-Shelds.jpg?h=b9de22ae&itok=XsYDtqRm "James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]")
James Shields holds the distinction of being the only person to be elected to the US Senate…
![Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Floyd-Calvin-Shoemaker.jpg?h=aa138b63&itok=2zUm8Emt "Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]")
When Floyd Calvin Shoemaker retired as secretary, librarian, and editor of publications of…
![Franz Sigel. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-05090]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Franz-Siegel.jpg?h=bac0bb5f&itok=WbrCB8IY "Franz Sigel. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-05090]")
Franz Sigel, a soldier, editor, and public official, was born in Sinsheim, Baden, on…
![George Sisler. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-11451]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-George-Sisler.jpg?h=abb6705f&itok=5s4__7Ug "George Sisler. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-npcc-11451]")
George Sisler ranks among baseball’s all-time finest hitters. His longtime manager and…
![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…
![Edgar Snow. [University of Missouri–Kansas City Special Collections, KC.19.2.9-11-00002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Edgar%20Snow.jpg?h=4cbe348b&itok=yI7zx-KA "Edgar Snow. [University of Missouri–Kansas City Special Collections, KC.19.2.9-11-00002]")
Edgar Snow grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was born on July 17, 1905. After a…
![Mathias Splitlog (Dyut-Ru-Tu-Re), Washington, DC, 1896. [Smithsonian Institution, NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00976A, photo by William Dinwiddie]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-04/1.%20Mathias%20Splitlog.jpg?h=ab7009da&itok=bgQTiSF4 "Mathias Splitlog (Dyut-Ru-Tu-Re), Washington, DC, 1896. [Smithsonian Institution, NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item BAE GN 00976A, photo by William Dinwiddie]")
The life of Mathias Splitlog is a classic story of a man who went from rags to riches. The son of a French…
![St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-St_Louis_Browns.jpg?h=2409fecb&itok=zmo6EN3t "St. Louis Browns players and owner Donald Lee Barnes celebrate the team’s lone American League pennant in 1944. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N45028]")
The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League…
The St. Louis Junto played a key role in shaping the politics of early nineteenth-…
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier…
![Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-04/1.-stone-prairie-home-guard.jpg?h=ecda3842&itok=l8eN27Wm "Andrew Jackson Henderson, a member of the Stone Prairie Home Guard, pictured later in the war after he joined Company G of the Fifteenth Missouri Cavalry Volunteers. He also served in Company L of the Seventy-Sixth Enrolled Missouri Militia. [Courtesy of Jeremiah Buntin and Kimberly Harper]")
The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry…