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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.

Carl Haley Chapman has appropriately been called the dean of Missouri archaeology, a title that addresses both his knowledge of the prehistory of the state and his tenure in carrying out studies of that prehistory.

One of the world’s great Wagnerian sopranos, Helen Traubel was born in south St. Louis on June 16, 1903. Her father, Otto Ferdinand Traubel, was a druggist.