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David Barton was born near Greenville, North Carolina, now in eastern Tennessee, on December 14, 1783. He was the fifth of twelve children born to Isaac and Keziah Barton.

Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic agriculture in the trans-Mississippi expanses stretching westward from Missouri to the Rocky Mountains.

Although Alexander Buckner served in Missouri’s 1820 Constitutional Convention, the state General Assembly, and the US Senate, there is little in the historical record about his life.

Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the founding, if often absent, genius of the St. Louis Movement in philosophy.

James Overton Broadhead was born on May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the oldest child of Achilles and Mary Broadhead.

Twice elected mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and known as “Chief” to tens of thousands of Boy Scouts across western Missouri, H. Roe Bartle cut a big swath through part of Missouri history.

A lawyer, author, diplomat, and journalist in the early Federal and Jacksonian eras, Henry Marie Brackenridge used his western travels as the basis for books about frontier life and manners, distinguished by their wit, clar

John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was born in Maysville, in Clay County, Illinois, on November 20, 1848, the son of James K. and Marian Brissenden Bothwell.

Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a publisher, was a close friend of Thomas Paine.

Pulitzer Prize–winning composer and music critic Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on November 25, 1896. His roots in America go back to the early period of colonization.