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Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was…

Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…

On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome…

Thomas Allen was among the most prominent and powerful individuals who led St. Louis in its transition from…

By popular consensus, Tom Bass was one of the most skillful and popular horsemen of his era. At the time of his…

Pitching immortal Satchel Paige, noted for his tall tales as much as his pitching, claimed that James “Cool Papa”…

Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the…

Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in…

Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…

Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…