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Curtis Fletcher Marbut revolutionized American thinking in soil science and had an international influence on the study of the geography of soils.

Progenitor of two of Missouri’s most prominent banking families, William T. Kemper also headed companies involved in grain and railroad transportation.

Important in the history of business in Missouri, Albert Bond Lambert made even larger contributions to the development of aviation.

Born on November 29, 1798, Hamilton R. Gamble was the youngest son of Joseph and Anne Hamilton Gamble. He was a Winchester, Virginia, native and received his education at Hampden-Sidney College.

Walthall Moore Sr. was born on May 1, 1886, in Marion, Alabama, the son of John and Sarah Moore. His family moved to St. Louis later that same year.

Gordon “Wild Bill” Elliott was one of the film industry’s top moneymakers in westerns during the 1940s and 1950s and was voted one of the ten best “Money Making Stars” in the Motion Picture Herald poll from 1942 to

Singer-actor Cliff Edwards was born in Hannibal, Missouri, on June 14, 1895, and is best remembered for his voice portrayal of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney’s 1940 animated film Pinocchio, in which he sang the unfo

During the first half of the eighteenth century, marriages between Native Americans and Europeans were common throughout French Louisiana, including the Illinois Country.