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James S. Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on February 28, 1817, and settled in Lewis County, Missouri, in 1838.

At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, Charles Gratiot’s outspoken support for the incoming American regime set him apart from Upper Louisiana’s other French Creole leaders.

Although best known as a general’s wife and a first lady, Julia Dent Grant left an important legacy in her own right. She shared in the mixed fortunes of her husband, Ulysses S.

Later in life William Gilliss would be a successful trader, real estate speculator, and businessman, and one of Kansas City’s founding fathers, but in 1802 he was simply a fourteen-year-old Baltimore runaway headed out to s

The French Revolution induced many royalists to emigrate to the Louisiana Territory in the late eighteenth century.

Henry S. Geyer was born in Frederick, Maryland, on December 9, 1790.

Although there is some dispute about the date and place of her birth, most sources state that Jeanne Eagels was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on June 26, 1894.

Following the death of Clermont (Gra-Mon or “Arrow-Going-Home”) in 1796, his son, also known as Clermont, was denied the hereditary office of peace chie

Joseph Charless, the first printer in St. Louis and father of journalism west of the Mississippi River, witnessed St. Louis’s transformation from a rude frontier village to a cosmopolitan metropolis and business center.