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The founder of the Consumers Cooperative Association (CCA) and the original field man for the Missouri Farmers Association (MFA), Howard A.

Born in Quitman, Missouri, on August 20, 1884, the only child of dry-goods operator John Cary and Barbara Lee Waggoner Donnell, Forrest C.

John Berry Meachum, best known for his important roles as a spiritual leader, educator, and abolitionist, was born into slavery in Virginia on May 3, 1789.

One of the foremost authorities on the history of culture, art, and society in the Mississippi valley from colonial times to the mid-nineteenth century, John Francis McDermott III produced many seminal monographs and trench

William C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, on April 15, 1783. He came to St.

While serving as Upper Louisiana’s lieutenant governor between 1792 and 1799, Zenon Trudeau showed himself to be a prudent but pragmatic administrator who adopted a commonsense approach in dealing with the manifold and comp

Born on March 14, 1833, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, John Sappington Marmaduke is the only Missouri governor whose father held the same position. The son of Meredith Miles Marmaduke and grandson of Dr.

Marion Talley was born on December 20, 1907, in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of a Missouri Pacific Railroad telegraph operator who was later transferred to Kansas City.