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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.

Henry Boernstein, a journalist and dramatist, was born Georg Christian Heinrich Börnstein on November 4, 1805, in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Franz Sigmund Börnstein, a former actor turned merchant, and Ilse Sophie Hesse B

Born in Ste. Genevieve on April 9, 1818, as a descendant of early French pioneers who settled in that area, Lewis V.

James M. Owen, a young advertising and insurance professional in Jefferson City, left mid-Missouri early in the Great Depression for Branson to help his father open a new business.

Roper v. Simmons was a landmark case heard in the Supreme Court of Missouri and the Supreme Court of the United States that changed how juveniles are treated in the US criminal justice system.