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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.

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most important and controversial politicians in Missouri in the antebellum era.

Civil war raged along the Kansas-Missouri border for nearly a decade in the mid-nineteenth century. The struggle over the fate of slavery in Kansas Territory erupted into partisan bloodshed in 1856.