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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.

Louis Miller was an influential builder-architect who lived in Arcadia, in Iron County, and was a builder for fifty years in the southeast Missouri Ozarks and the Bootheel.

Herman Dreer, a respected Black St. Louis educator and scholar, was born on September 12, 1889, in Washington, DC.

Henry Dodge served his nation in a long and prosperous life on the nineteenth-century frontier. At an early age he established himself as a strong military leader and skillful negotiator.

Elizabeth Jane Dugan, better known by her pseudonym “Rosa Pearle,” was the founder, editor, and principal writer of Rosa Pearle’s Paper, a Saturday­-evening society weekly published in Sedalia, Missouri, from 1894

John Darby was a highly accomplished and distinguished lawyer, banker, philanthropist, and public official in early St. Louis. Attaining the office of mayor in 1835, he was subsequently elected to that post four times.

Samuel Ryan Curtis figured largely in Missouri’s Civil War history from August 1861 through October 1864. Born in New York on February 3, 1805, Curtis grew up in Ohio, where he received an appointment to West Point.

Phil M. Donnelly was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on March 6, 1891. He was educated in Missouri schools, eventually receiving an LL.B. degree from Saint Louis University in 1913.