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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.

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.