the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Phoebe-Apperson-Hearst.jpg?h=1b8b84bf&itok=qbqmm_sb "Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]")
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
![Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Edward-Hempstead.jpg?h=327deaef&itok=Zp2ycOli "Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]")
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…
![Henry S. Geyer. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Collection, P0004-002099]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Henry%20S.%20Geyer.jpg?h=0152cff4&itok=dDPS5Fld "Henry S. Geyer. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Collection, P0004-002099]")
Henry S. Geyer was born in Frederick, Maryland, on December 9, 1790. He received a private…
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the American fur business…
![William Hirth. [Boone County Historical Society, Henry Holborn Studio Photography Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20William%20Hirth.jpg?h=e5a74f32&itok=MB2afVqJ "William Hirth. [Boone County Historical Society, Henry Holborn Studio Photography Collection]")
Born in Tarrytown, New York, on May 28, 1875, William Hirth moved to Missouri with his…
![Harold L. Holliday Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1969–1970]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-08/1.-harold-holliday-sr.jpg?h=26649f55&itok=SKI26BWb "Harold L. Holliday Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1969–1970]")
Harold L. Holliday devoted his career to advancing the cause of civil rights in Missouri. He spent twenty-…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…
![Louis Houck visiting one of his rail lines. [Southeast Missouri State University, Special Collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-01/1.-louis-houck.jpg?h=64cd13ab&itok=N9mOp8Ap "Louis Houck visiting one of his rail lines. [Southeast Missouri State University, Special Collections]")
Often credited as being the “Father of Southeast Missouri,” Louis Houck was a lawyer, journalist,…
![Jessie Housley. [Your St. Louis and Mine, 1937]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-03/1.-jessie-housley.jpg?h=a66815ff&itok=k5kgpxeq "Jessie Housley. [Your St. Louis and Mine, 1937]")
Jessie Housley was a successful Missouri artist and educator in the mid-twentieth century. She…
![David Franklin Houston in 1921. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-nclc-05268]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-08/1.-david-franklin-houston.jpg?h=ebcc97d7&itok=fYwNV0Mm "David Franklin Houston in 1921. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-nclc-05268]")
David Franklin Houston distinguished himself in three careers: academic, political, and business. A political…