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Born on June 22, 1845, in Strasbourg, France, Edmond Jacques Eckel demonstrated an early interest in architecture through mechanical drawings he created at age twelve and apprenticeships he served as an adolescent in his na

Missouri’s fifth governor, Daniel Dunklin, was born on January 14, 1790, in the Greenville district of South Carolina, where he attended public school.

William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early republican period of American history.

James Pierson Beckwith, better known as Jim Beckwourth following the publication of his autobiography, was a notable African American fur trapper, mountain man, army scout, and pioneer settler.

Paul Armstrong, a journalist and playwright, was born in Kidder, a small town in Caldwell County, Missouri, on April 25, 1869.

DeVerne Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis and did graduate work at Atlanta University and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became one of the first black families in the coal-mining communities of eastern Kentucky when they moved to Letcher County in 1913.

Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was to become the matriarch of a founding family of St. Louis.