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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.

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