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Pedro Joseph Piernas, the first Spanish lieutenant governor in St. Louis, occupied that post between 1770 and 1775.

Homer G. Phillips was born in Sedalia, Missouri, on April 1, 1880. He was raised by an aunt after his parents died. From these humble beginnings he rose to a position of national prominence.

Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-Suzanne Peyroux; the identity of his father is unknown.

Manuel Pérez, Spanish lieutenant governor in St. Louis from 1787 to 1792, was born in Zamora, Spain, in 1735.

Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington Carver’s birth. Biographer Linda O.

The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with distinction as military commander of Upper Louisiana in the key period after the French cession of the Louisiana Territory to the United S

An early pioneer-farming expert and author, Morris Birkbeck exerted an enormous influence in publicizing the Illinois and Missouri Territories not only to his planned colony of English families, but also to waves of America

Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 1918, the son of Louis and Ellen Brown Billups. He grew up in an elite African American neighborhood known as the Ville.