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Susan Shelby Magoffin was born on July 30, 1827, at Arcasia, her father’s estate near Danville, Kentucky.

Jeffrey Deroine (pronounced Der-oh-NAY) defied many of the limitations placed on enslaved people in early nineteenth-century Missouri.

J. Christian Bay was born to Lars and Doris Christiansen Bay on October 12, 1871, in Rudkohing, Denmark.

Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey was a lifelong newspaper and magazine journalist, and a regional poet. Born in Boone County, Arkansas, on August 16, 1877, but reared in Taney County, Missouri, she began writing for the public at age fourteen.

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.

Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was an extraordinarily gifted blues guitarist and talented singer who pioneered a sophisticated, jazz-inflected urban blues guitar style.

Herman Jaeger was born in Brugg, Switzerland, on March 23, 1844, the sixth of seven children of Charles and Mary Custer Jaeger.