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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.

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.