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Born on February 17, 1793, on a farm near St. Clair Township, in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Sidney Rigdon was the fourth child of William and Nancy Rigdon.

Jack Oakie was long considered one of the screen’s most notorious scene-stealers. He had a unique brand of comedy and was the master of the double and triple take.

A community organizer, civil rights campaigner, housing specialist, and antipoverty activist, Ivory Perry spent many years channeling the needs and aspirations of the African American community in St.

Pierre Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit priest in the Illinois Country, was among a group of French and Native Americans that formed the earliest known missionary settlement in what would become Missouri.

Those familiar with the Pony Express recognize Russell, Majors, and Waddell as the entrepreneurs behind the famous, if short-lived, venture.

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.