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Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, around 1875—sources differ on the year of her birth—Arsania M. Williams was the third of five children of George and Julia Williams.

Missouri’s third governor, Abraham J. Williams served in that office for less than six months.

Roy O. Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis. Five years earlier, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that endorsed racial segregation.

Rolla Wells, a businessman and mayor of St. Louis, was born in St. Louis on June 1, 1856, to Erastus and Isabella Bowman Henry Wells. The senior Wells had moved to St.

William Bradford Waddell typified the mid-nineteenth-century entrepreneur who shaped the American West through capitalist venture.

Henry von Phul was born in Philadelphia in 1784, the son of Johann Wilhelm (later William) and Catharine (Graff) von Phul.

Jonas Viles, a longtime professor of history at the University of Missouri, was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 3, 1875.

Katharine Berry Richardson founded the highly respected Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. She was born on September 28, 1858, in Flat Rock, Kentucky, to Stephen Paine and Harriett Benson Berry.