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Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as May 16, 1840, he recorded in 1871 that he was born on August 22, 1839. Whichever date is accurate, he was born in St.

Christian Frederick Wilhelm Von der Ahe, a pioneering figure in early professional baseball, was born on October 7, 1851, in Hille, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1867. Beginning in St.

Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, whose foghorn voice earned him his nickname, was a masterful, outspoken basketball coach, so dedicated to the sport that he won the honorary title “Mr.

Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in 1948, was known from coast to coast as one of the most colorful figures in country journalism.

One of the key St. Louis businessmen and philanthropists of his generation in St. Louis, William K.

Among the early artists to explore the trans-Mississippi River frontier, Karl Bodmer’s stay in St. Louis was perhaps the briefest.