the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_Lyon.jpg?itok=n58ABqzx "Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]")
Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861)
Nathaniel Lyon, a US Army officer from 1841 to 1861, was born in rural Ashford (later Eastford), Connecticut, on July 14, 1818, the son of Amasa Lyon, a farmer and local lawyer, and Kezia Knowlton Lyon.
![Lonnie Johnson performing in 1965 at the Folk Festival Show, Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey. [Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Amsterdam News Photograph Archive, #8084]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Alonzo_Johnson.jpg?itok=9_zgo7AZ "Lonnie Johnson performing in 1965 at the Folk Festival Show, Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey. [Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Amsterdam News Photograph Archive, #8084]")
Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson (1889–1970)
Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was an extraordinarily gifted blues guitarist and talented singer who pioneered a sophisticated, jazz-inflected urban blues guitar style.
Patrick Huber
Patrick Huber is historian and editor at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee.
![Herman Jaeger. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Southwest Missouri Region Photograph Collection, P1110]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Herman_Jaeger.jpg?itok=hIWzy1qx "Herman Jaeger. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Southwest Missouri Region Photograph Collection, P1110]")
Herman Jaeger (1844–?)
Herman Jaeger was born in Brugg, Switzerland, on March 23, 1844, the sixth of seven children of Charles and Mary Custer Jaeger.
Carol Heming
Carol Heming is professor emerita of history at the University of Central Missouri.
![Fannie Hurst. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, TH-22169]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Fannie_Hurst.jpg?itok=DJrIL1M- "Fannie Hurst. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, TH-22169]")
Fannie Hurst (1889–1968)
Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her maternal grandparents in Hamilton, Ohio, on October 19, 1889. A short time later she was taken to St. Louis, her home for the next twenty years.
Rose Marie Kinder
Rose Marie Kinder is a professor emerita at the University of Central Missouri.
![Edmond J. Eckel. [Elwood L. McDonald, History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Missouri, 1915]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Edmond_Eckel.jpg?itok=ErvhU-1e "Edmond J. Eckel. [Elwood L. McDonald, History of Buchanan County and St. Joseph, Missouri, 1915]")
Edmond Jacques Eckel (1845–1934)
Born on June 22, 1845, in Strasbourg, France, Edmond Jacques Eckel demonstrated an early interest in architecture through mechanical drawings he created at age twelve and apprenticeships he served as an adolescent in his na
Toni M. Prawl
Toni M. Prawl is director and deputy state historic preservation officer at the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.
![Daniel Dunklin. [State Historical Society of Missouri, P1042-018634]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Daniel_Dunklin_P1042-018634.jpg?itok=qH2FRHoq "Daniel Dunklin. [State Historical Society of Missouri, P1042-018634]")
Daniel Dunklin (1790–1844)
Missouri’s fifth governor, Daniel Dunklin, was born on January 14, 1790, in the Greenville district of South Carolina, where he attended public school.