the State Historical Society of Missouri
![James S. Green. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-26803]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20James%20S.%20Green.jpg?h=3e1a2513&itok=wqr4fvFN "James S. Green. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-26803]")
James S. Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on February 28, 1817, and settled in…
![Josiah Gregg. [Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 4316.5964]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Josiah%20Gregg.jpg?h=ae68c2af&itok=CzvoyQ82 "Josiah Gregg. [Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 4316.5964]")
From his father, Wheelwright Harmon Gregg, Josiah Gregg inherited a roving spirit that…
Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…
![Inez Parker Griggs. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 28, 1907]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-01/1.-inez-parker-griggs.jpg?h=263c755c&itok=wVwreUOa "Inez Parker Griggs. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 28, 1907]")
Inez Parker Griggs was a poet who lived in Rolla, Missouri. The daughter of formerly enslaved individuals,…
![W. C. Handy playing at the fifth annual American Negro Music Festival in St. Louis’s Sportsman’s Park in 1944. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Arthur Witman 120mm Photograph Collection (S0732), 732.31462]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Handy-at-Sportsman%27s-Park.jpg?h=3922e451&itok=pT3BzbVU "W. C. Handy playing at the fifth annual American Negro Music Festival in St. Louis’s Sportsman’s Park in 1944. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Arthur Witman 120mm Photograph Collection (S0732), 732.31462]")
Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
![Plan of Hardeman’s Garden, also called Fruitage Farm, with labyrinth. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Glen O. Hardeman Collection, C3655]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20John%20Hardeman.jpg?itok=r4CSXw-u "Plan of Hardeman’s Garden, also called Fruitage Farm, with labyrinth. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Glen O. Hardeman Collection, C3655]")
John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…
![Jean Harlow in a publicity photo. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, ID# TH-190010]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Jean-Harlow-Pub-Still.jpg?h=4cc55283&itok=QHj0lS7X "Jean Harlow in a publicity photo. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection Photograph File, ID# TH-190010]")
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. Her father, Mont Clair…
Born on September 10, 1835, in North Killington, Connecticut, William Torrey Harris was a…
![William Henry Hatch. [University Archives, University of Missouri, collection C:3/25/28]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/William-Henry-Hatch_0.jpg?h=69100914&itok=sWtMV5zq "William Henry Hatch. [University Archives, University of Missouri, collection C:3/25/28]")
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, on September 11, 1833, to Quaker parents the Reverend…
![Samuel Hawken. [Missouri Historical Society, Prints and Photographs Division, N38641]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/William-Henry-Hatch.jpg?h=90cf89e6&itok=nicdSEFZ "Samuel Hawken. [Missouri Historical Society, Prints and Photographs Division, N38641]")
Christian Hawken, a respected gunsmith of Hagerstown, Maryland, taught his six sons and…