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Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, whose foghorn voice earned him his nickname, was a masterful, outspoken basketball coach, so dedicated to the sport that he won the honorary title “Mr.

Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in 1948, was known from coast to coast as one of the most colorful figures in country journalism.

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 Börnstein.

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.