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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.

Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor and also the first woman appointed as director of the US Mint. She was born on November 29, 1876, near St.

Born in Independence, Missouri, on November 9, 1885, Charles G. Ross attended his town’s public schools and graduated with the high school class of 1901, first among forty-one seniors including Harry S.

Elected in 1840, Thomas Reynolds became the seventh Missouri governor. There are few records to document his early life. He was born in Bracken County, Kentucky, on March 12, 1796.