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When Floyd Calvin Shoemaker retired as secretary, librarian, and editor of publications of the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1960, he left behind a distinguished record of service as a collector, disseminator, and

James Shields holds the distinction of being the only person to be elected to the US Senate from three different states. The peripatetic Irish Democrat represented Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri in the Senate.

An unheralded Afro-Indian enslaved woman’s dreams of freedom propelled one of the most protracted legal battles over slavery in Missouri history.

John McAllister Schofield was born in Gerry, Chautauqua County, New York, on September 2, 1831, the son of James and Caroline McAllister Schofield.

Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years.

Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in the Illinois Country near Fort de Chartres, the third of three sons to Jean Baptiste and Adelaide Lepage Saucier.

Born in 1820, Theodore Russell was the third son of Cyrus and Rebecca Russell, who emigrated with a large family from the Connecticut River valley to Missouri’s Arcadia valley in 1838.

Ferdinand Rozier was an early resident of historic Ste. Genevieve and contributed to the development of an area considered the western frontier during the early 1800s.