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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.

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.