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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.

William Marion Reedy discovered, promoted, and nurtured some of America’s most important writers during his almost thirty years as the owner and editor of Reedy's Mirror.

Marianne Billeron Vallé was born in Kaskaskia around 1729, the daughter of Marie-Claire Catoire and Léonard Billeron dit La

Marie-Claire Catoire Billeron’s name first appears in North America on the passenger list of a French flûte or cargo ship named La Baleine (the Whale).

Hugh Armstrong Robinson, a member of the distinguished Early Birds of Aviation organization, was a pilot, inventor

Pierre Chouteau Jr., scion of the powerful early St.