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Vincent Price, a versatile actor of stage, screen, and television, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on May 27, 1911.

Thomas Lawson Price was born on January 19, 1809, near Danville, Virginia. Although he was the son of a wealthy plantation owner, he received only a rudimentary education.

Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 11, 1809, Sterling Price was the son of a tobacco planter of middling status who provided a comfortable home and a good education for his five children.

Bernard Pratte’s father, Jean Baptiste, settled first on the east bank of the Mississippi. When France ceded that territory to England, he moved across the river to Ste.

William Horatio Powell was the epitome of the suave, urbane leading man throughout his stage and film career.

Truman Marcellus Post, a religious and cultural leader of St. Louis, was born in Middlebury, Vermont, on June 3, 1810, to Martin and Sarah Hulburd Post.

In September of 1864, Confederate army troops led by Major General Sterling Price entered Missouri with the intent of capturing St.

During the early months of the Civil War, the Missouri State Guard and the Confederate Army combined to win the Battle of Wilson’s Creek on