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Decided in 1873 by the Supreme Court of Missouri and in 1874 by the US Supreme Court, Minor v.

Luella St. Clair Moss, an educator and community activist, was born in Virden, Illinois, to Seymour and Julia McLynn Wilcox on June 25, 1865.

Friedrich Muench was born on June 25, 1799, the son of a Lutheran pastor in Niedergemuenden in the German state of Hesse.

Carry Amelia Moore Nation, an internationally known temperance crusader, was born on November 25, 1846, to George and Mary Campbell Moore.

Of British, Quaker, and Huguenot heritage, William Rockhill Nelson was born five miles west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, on March 7, 1841, to the aristocrat Isaac DeGroff and Elizabeth Nelson.

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who began his career in the Ozarks.

Leonor Alice Kretzer Sullivan was the first woman elected to the US Congress from a Missouri district, and she served in the House of Representatives for twenty-four years (1953–1977).