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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.

Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her maternal grandparents in Hamilton, Ohio, on October 19, 1889. A short time later she was taken to St. Louis, her home for the next twenty years.