the State Historical Society of Missouri
Joni L. Kinsey
Joni L. Kinsey is a professor of art history at the University of Iowa.
![An artist’s depiction of Fort San Carlos. Constructed under orders from Fernando de Leyba, it played a crucial role in stopping the British attack on St. Louis in 1780. [Walter B. Stevens, ed., History of St. Louis the Fourth City, 1764–1909, vol. 1 (1909)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Fernando_de_Lebya.jpg?itok=eRYSGDVg "An artist’s depiction of Fort San Carlos. Constructed under orders from Fernando de Leyba, it played a crucial role in stopping the British attack on St. Louis in 1780. [Walter B. Stevens, ed., History of St. Louis the Fourth City, 1764–1909, vol. 1 (1909)]")
Fernando de Leyba (?–1780)
Controversy swirled around Upper Louisiana’s third lieutenant governor in life and in death.
![A facsimile of the title page in the first edition of Zenon Leonard’s narrative about his experiences. [Adventures of Zenon Leonard (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2021-09/1-Zenas_Leonard.jpg?itok=BGlXGG_l "A facsimile of the title page in the first edition of Zenon Leonard’s narrative about his experiences. [Adventures of Zenon Leonard (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)]")
Zenas Leonard (1809–1857)
Zenas Leonard, a fur trapper best known as the author of Adventures of a Mountain Man, a classic work in the literature of the Rocky Mountain fur trade, was born in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, on March 19, 180
![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.