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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.

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.