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Twice elected mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and known as “Chief” to tens of thousands of Boy Scouts across western Missouri, H. Roe Bartle cut a big swath through part of Missouri history.

A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry Marie Brackenridge used his western travels as the basis for books about frontier life and manners, distinguished by their wit, clar

John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was born in Maysville, in Clay County, Illinois, on November 20, 1848, the son of James K. and Marian Brissenden Bothwell.

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a publisher, was a close friend of Thomas Paine.

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and music critic Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 25, 1896. His roots in America go back to the early period of colonization.

Through most of his life, Melvin B. Tolson claimed he was born with the twentieth century in 1900. He was in fact born on February 6, 1898, in Moberly, Missouri.

Edgar Snow grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was born on July 17, 1905. After a year at Kansas City Junior College he moved to New York in 1924 to begin a new career in advertising with the Medley Scovil Company.

Silas C. Turnbo collected stories from Ozarkers in the upper White River country of Arkansas and Missouri from as early as the 1860s continuing into the early twentieth century.

Charlton H. Tandy, an outspoken leader of the nineteenth-century Black civil rights movement, was born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 16, 1836.