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Born on November 15, 1807, in Nashville, Tennessee, Peter Hardeman Burnett was the eldest son of George and Dorothy Hardeman Burnett, originally spelled Burnet.

Thomas James spent little of his life in Missouri, but he significantly influenced the state. With a strong background in iron making, he largely financed and organized the Maramec Iron Works during the 1820s.

John Rice Jones, a pioneering jurist renowned for his erudition, was one of the principal framers of Missouri’s 1820 constitution and a member of the state’s first supreme court.

A succession of Osage leaders from the 1790s to the 1870s were known as “Cheveux Blancs” in French or “White Hair” in English.

The name of this Osage chief is variously rendered Gra-Mon, Gra-moie, Gra-to-moh-se, and Gleh-mon.

With the exception of two years in the early twentieth century, the state of Missouri has always allowed the death penalty for capital crimes. The state legislature abolished it in 1917, only to reinstate it two years later.

The Boone’s Lick Road was the first major conduit to the trans-Mississippi West after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

From the time Confederate forces were driven out of Missouri in early 1862, General Sterling Price, former commander of the Missour

The Stone Prairie Home Guard (SPHG) was the first Union military organization active in Barry County, Missouri, during the Civil War.

Jacques Phillippe Clamorgan arrived on the Missouri frontier in the early 1780s and spent the rest of his long life as a trader, land speculator, merchant, financier, statesman, explorer, and promoter. Abraham P.