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Jolly Mill, a grist mill and whiskey distillery, was built in the late 1840s on Capps Creek in eastern Newton County, Missouri.

Elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1860, Thomas Caute Reynolds worked diligently to separate Missouri from the Union in 1861, and upon 

Described as neurotic and ample, Mary Margaret McBride became a great success on network radio while disclosing to the world her insecurity and guilt.

When French explorer Robert La Salle passed by the mouth of the Missouri River in 1682, he wrote that on its banks were “a great number of large villages of many different nations.” The two dominant nations at that time in what is now the state of

Marlin Perkins served as director at three zoos during his career: the Zoological Gardens in Buffalo, New York; the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago; and the St. Louis Zoo.

Mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, secretary of the interior, president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and ambassador to Russia, David R.

Arthur Holly Compton earned international recognition for his research in X-rays, sharing the 1927 Nobel Prize for physics with British scientist Charles T. R. Wilson.