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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.

Charles van Ravenswaay, an author, horticulturist, and museum director, was most of all devoted to preserving the history and physical culture of his native Missouri.

Francis Peter “Frank” O’Hare was born in New Hampton, Iowa, on April 23, 1877, to Peter Paul O’Hare, an Irish immigrant from Belfast, and Elizabeth Weijers O’Hare, a Dutch immigrant.