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Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New London, Connecticut, on June 3, 1780.

The most powerful tribal group in the early history of Missouri was referred to as the Wah-Zha-Zhe, which actually derived from a name for one of its moiety divisions, “The Water People.” The tribal group as a whole origina

Henry Clemens Overstolz was a St. Louis businessman and politician.

Geraldine Page was born in Kirksville, Missouri, on November 22, 1924, to Leon Elwin Page, an osteopathic physician, and Edna Pearl Maize Page.

Nathaniel Patten Jr. could be characterized as Missouri’s quintessential pioneer country editor. As proprietor of the first newspaper published west of St.

John Mason Peck, a pioneer, Baptist missionary, noted preacher, author, and journalist on the early Missouri and Illinois frontiers, produced important writings that promoted settlement and settled institutions in the Missi

Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri, his “St. Louis Blues” (1914) secured a place for him in the state’s musical history.