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Stephen Watts Kearny was born on August 30, 1794, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the youngest child of a large and prosperous Tory family whose fortunes suffered only temporary setbacks during the Revolutionary War.

Known during his lifetime as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” Scott Joplin was an African American musician and the foremost contributor to a “Missouri style” of ragtime music in the 1890s and early 1900s.

The biography of Joseph James Jones is both the story of the life of an American artist and a chronicle of the changing times in which he lived.

We can guess the character of Anne Lucas Hunt by the good she did during her life and by the legacies she left at her death; altogether she gave more than $1 million in money and real estate to various charitable institutions.

Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the American fur business, was a partner in both the St. Louis Missouri Fur Company and the firm of Ashley and Henry.

The St. Louis Junto played a key role in shaping the politics of early nineteenth-century Missouri.

The St. Louis Browns were a professional baseball team that played in the American League from 1902 until 1953.