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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…

Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, whose foghorn voice earned him his nickname, was a masterful,…

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

Paul Armstrong, a journalist and playwright, was born in Kidder, a small town in Caldwell…

Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in…

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

James Pierson Beckwith, better known as Jim Beckwourth following the publication of…

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