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Isaac McCoy was born on June 13, 1784, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. At the age of six, he traveled with his family to the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, where his father, William, served as an itinerant preacher.

Wilson Price Hunt was born to a prosperous merchant family in Asbury, New Jersey, on March 20, 1783. As a young man he journeyed west.

Emma R. Knell, a businesswoman and politician, was born in Moline, Illinois, on October 21, 1877, and moved with her family to southwest Missouri in the early 1880s.

Rupert Hughes, a versatile popular writer, was born in Lancaster, Missouri, on January 31, 1872.

Hancock Lee Jackson was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on May 12, 1796. He married Ursula Oldham in the spring of 1821, and the following fall the couple moved to Missouri.

William Lewis Sublette was born at Stanford, Kentucky, on September 21, 1799. The family moved to St.

Trusten W. Polk, governor of Missouri and a US senator, was born in Sussex County, Delaware, on May 29, 1811. His parents, William Nutter and Levinia Causey Polk, were both members of politically prominent families.

George Husmann was born on November 4, 1827, in Meyenburg, Prussia, the son of J. H. Martin and Louise Charlotte Wesselhoeft Husmann.

Born in Tarrytown, New York, on May 28, 1875, William Hirth moved to Missouri with his parents three years later, where they farmed near Lead Creek in Pike County. Later, his family farmed in Audrain County.

From his father, Wheelwright Harmon Gregg, Josiah Gregg inherited a roving spirit that shaped his character and his life.