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Gladys Swarthout, a concert and operatic mezzo-­soprano, was born in Deepwater, Missouri, to Frank L. and Ruth W. Swarthout on December 25, 1904.

George Sisler ranks among baseball’s all-time finest hitters. His longtime manager and lifetime friend Branch Rickey described him as “the smartest hitter who ever lived. He never stopped thinking.

Franz Sigel, a soldier, editor, and public official, was born in Sinsheim, Baden, on November 18, 1824. He was a leader in the German revolution of 1848–1849 and was forced into exile when it failed.

Alexander McNair, the first governor of the state of Missouri, was born in what was then Cumberland County, in central Pennsylvania, on May 5, 1775, the seventh and youngest child of David and Ann Dunning McNair.

Joseph Washington McClurg was Missouri’s second and final Radical Republican governor, serving from 1869 to 1871. His one term represented the brief zenith and quick demise of Radical political power in the state.

Governor Sam Baker’s appointment of Keith McCanse as game and fish commissioner in 1925 made him the first professional conservationist named to fill an administrative and policy-making position in Missouri.

Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court decision that marked the beginning of the end of state-sponsored racial segregation.

Although his date of birth remains uncertain, Nathaniel C. Bruce was probably born in 1868 on a farm near Danville, Virginia.