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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.

The Ben Bolt Theatre was a spectacular building that stood for half a century as a notable landmark in northeast Missouri.

Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the Missouri River, in what is now Saline County.