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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.

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.