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In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier in the final decade prior to the Civil War.

James T. Scott (1885?–1923) was the victim of one of the most notorious lynchings in Missouri history.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, around 1875—sources differ on the year of her birth—Arsania M. Williams was the third of five children of George and Julia Williams.

Missouri’s third governor, Abraham J. Williams served in that office for less than six months.

Roy O. Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis. Five years earlier, the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, the case that endorsed racial segregation.

Rolla Wells, a businessman and mayor of St. Louis, was born in St. Louis on June 1, 1856, to Erastus and Isabella Bowman Henry Wells. The senior Wells had moved to St.

William Bradford Waddell typified the mid-nineteenth-century entrepreneur who shaped the American West through capitalist venture.

Henry von Phul was born in Philadelphia in 1784, the son of Johann Wilhelm (later William) and Catharine (Graff) von Phul.