the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Nathaniel Leonard. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James M. Denny Photograph Collection (P0809)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_Leonard.jpg?itok=dytrIw_i "Nathaniel Leonard. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James M. Denny Photograph Collection (P0809)]")
Nathaniel Leonard (1799–1876)
A prominent farmer and stock raiser of Cooper County, Missouri, and the founder of Ravenswood Farm, Nathaniel Leonard was born in Windsor, Vermont, on June 13, 1799, and grew up on a farm near Lewistown, New York.
Abiel Leonard (1797–1863)
Abiel Leonard, a lawyer, jurist, and political leader, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on May 16, 1797, the product of a long New England line going back to the early days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
James M. Denny
James M. Denny worked as a historian with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for thirty-three years.
![Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-William_Carr_Lane.jpg?itok=q5H4KBAz "Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]")
William Carr Lane (1789–1863)
Born on December 1, 1789, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, William Carr Lane spent most of his adult life west of the Mississippi as a physician and a politician.
Krista Camenzind
Krista Camenzind holds a PhD in Colonial American History from the University of California–San Diego.
![Kathryn J. Kuhlman. [Courtesy of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Kathryn_Kuhlman.jpg?itok=O6YGhB9r "Kathryn J. Kuhlman. [Courtesy of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives]")
Kathryn J. Kuhlman (1907–1976)
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, born in Concordia, Missouri, on May 9, 1907, became Missouri’s most famous independent deliverance evangelist of the twentieth century.
Marla J. Selvidge
Marla J. Selvidge is professor emerita of religious studies at the University of Central Missouri.
![Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_N_Kinney.jpg?itok=o0Umnx07 "Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]")
![Austin A. King. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01330]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Austin_A_King.jpg?itok=S6aTkooq "Austin A. King. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01330]")
Austin A. King (1802–1870)
Born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on September 21, 1802, Austin A.
Dennis K. Boman
Dennis K. Boman is an adjunct member of the graduate faculty at Ashland University.