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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.

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.