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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).

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.