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William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early republican period of American history.

James Pierson Beckwith, better known as Jim Beckwourth following the publication of his autobiography, was a notable African American fur trapper, mountain man, army scout, and pioneer settler.

Paul Armstrong, a journalist and playwright, was born in Kidder, a small town in Caldwell County, Missouri, on April 25, 1869.

DeVerne Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis and did graduate work at Atlanta University and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became one of the first black families in the coal-mining communities of eastern Kentucky when they moved to Letcher County in 1913.

Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was to become the matriarch of a founding family of St. Louis.

Joan Crawford was born Lucille LeSueur on March 23, 1908, in what she described as “a drab little place on the wrong side of the tracks” in San Antonio, Texas.

Jane Darwell, a pioneering film actress whose career spanned more than sixty years, was born Patti Woodward on October 15, 1879, in Palmyra, Missouri, where her family maintained a summer home. Her father, W. R.