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George Graham Vest, who served four terms as a US senator from Missouri (1879–1903), was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, on December 6, 1830, to John Jay and Harriet Graham Vest.

George L. Vaughn, a prominent Black St. Louis attorney and political activist, was born in Columbus, Kentucky, on March 9, 1880, the son of former slaves Monroe and Josephine Vaughn. Little is known of his early life.

A frontier doctor, Jacksonian Democrat, and US senator, Lewis F. Linn has been called both “Missouri’s model senator” and the “Father of Oregon.” At the time of his death the St.

Edward V. Long was born on July 18, 1908, in Lincoln County, Missouri. He received his undergraduate degree from Culver-Stockton College and attended law school at the University of Missouri.

William Keil was born on March 6, 1811, or 1812, in Bleicherode, Erfurt, Prussia. His education was undoubtedly rudimentary.

Frederick Thomas Kemper was an educator and the founder of Kemper Military School and College. Born at Madison Courthouse, Virginia, to William and Maria E.

Henry Kayser was a key figure in the intertwined worlds of politics and public improvements in mid­nineteenth-century St. Louis.

Claiborne Fox Jackson was born in rural Fleming County, in northeastern Kentucky, on April 4, 1806.

A group of German-Swiss immigrants landed in Philadelphia in 1710 and settled in southeast Pennsylvania.