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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.

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.