the State Historical Society of Missouri
Eric Sandweiss
Eric Sandweiss is professor and Carmony Chair in the Indiana University Department of History, and editor of the Indiana Magazine of History.
Zoë Byrd Akins (1886–1958)
Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas Jasper and Sarah Elizabeth Green Akins, who was for many years the chair of the Missouri Republican Party.
Catherine N. Parke
Catherine N. Parke is professor emerita of English and women’s studies at the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Jennifer Westbay
Jennifer Westbay is a lecturer for Writing Programs in the Humanities Division of UCLA.
Jane Ace (1900?–1974)
Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Kimberly Harper
Kimberly Harper is an editor at the State Historical Society of Missouri.
Dictionary of Missouri Biography
This article was first published in Lawrence O. Christensen, William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds., Dictionary of Missouri Biography (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999), and appears here by permission of the author and original publisher.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Company
The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway, popularly known as the Frisco, was a regional freight and passenger carrier serving the south-central United States. From its business headquarters in St.