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John Gabriel Woerner, a celebrated St. Louis lawyer, legal scholar, journalist, and politician, was admired by St. Louisans for his promotion of local artistic, literary, and philosophical efforts.

Daniel Morgan Boone was born on December 23, 1769, the seventh child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, at their home in North Carolina along the ba

Daniel Boone is most commonly known as a hunter, trapper, and frontier settler, but he also speculated in western lands, worked as a surveyor, owned stores where he traded furs (often in conjunction with a tavern), and led

Robert Russell Bennett was born on June 15, 1894, in Kansas City, Missouri, the only son of George Robert and Mary Bradford Bennett. Both parents were of Yankee stock going back to the early colonial era.

Standard reference works list film actor Wallace Beery’s birthplace as Kansas City, Missouri, and disagree on his birth date.

Noah Beery Sr., a film actor, was born on a Clay County, Missouri, farm several miles northwest of Smithville on January 17, 1884.

William Stone Woods was born on November 1, 1840, the son of James Harris and Martha Jane Stone Woods. He was one of five children.

In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier in the final decade prior to the Civil War.

James T. Scott (1885?–1923) was the victim of one of the most notorious lynchings in Missouri history.