the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Fannie Hurst. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, TH-22169]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Fannie_Hurst.jpg?h=bd99ae02&itok=_VJZe3C7 "Fannie Hurst. [New York Public Library Digital Collections, Billy Rose Theatre Collection, TH-22169]")
Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her maternal grandparents…
![George Husmann. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Men in Agriculture Portraits Collection, P1201-011356]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/2.%20George%20Husmann.jpg?h=516a5cf9&itok=daCK-kpR "George Husmann. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Men in Agriculture Portraits Collection, P1201-011356]")
George Husmann was born on November 4, 1827, in Meyenburg, Prussia, the son of J. H. Martin and Louise…
![Claiborne Fox Jackson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N21069]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Claiborne%20Fox%20Jackson.jpg?h=8ea2713e&itok=ZPN0hAT_ "Claiborne Fox Jackson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N21069]")
Claiborne Fox Jackson was born in rural Fleming County, in northeastern Kentucky, on April 4, 1806. The son…
![Hancock Lee Jackson. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governors Portraits Collection, P1091-018866]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Hancock%20Lee%20Jackson.jpg?h=27de5bd5&itok=9JgOLUvD "Hancock Lee Jackson. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governors Portraits Collection, P1091-018866]")
Hancock Lee Jackson was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on May 12, 1796. He married…
![Herman Jaeger. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Southwest Missouri Region Photograph Collection, P1110]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Herman_Jaeger.jpg?h=edea59cd&itok=ZIxcaUYw "Herman Jaeger. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Southwest Missouri Region Photograph Collection, P1110]")
Herman Jaeger was born in Brugg, Switzerland, on March 23, 1844, the sixth of seven…
![Thomas James (right) and family. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James Memorial Library Photograph Collection, R1480]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-07/1.-thomas-james.jpg?h=3521e68b&itok=FOTxPwy5 "Thomas James (right) and family. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James Memorial Library Photograph Collection, R1480]")
Thomas James spent little of his life in Missouri, but he significantly influenced the state. With a strong…
![William Jewell. [Walter Williams, ed., A History of Northeast Missouri (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-William-Jewell_0.jpg?h=38140c0f&itok=swOuvi2T "William Jewell. [Walter Williams, ed., A History of Northeast Missouri (Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co., 1913)]")
In some respects, William Jewell’s story is similar to those of thousands of others who…
![Lonnie Johnson performing in 1965 at the Folk Festival Show, Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey. [Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Amsterdam News Photograph Archive, #8084]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Alonzo_Johnson.jpg?h=28015916&itok=kGea3NPZ "Lonnie Johnson performing in 1965 at the Folk Festival Show, Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey. [Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Amsterdam News Photograph Archive, #8084]")
Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was an extraordinarily gifted blues guitarist and talented singer who pioneered a…
![Josephine Winslow Johnson. [Simon and Schuster, photo provided by the Johnson Estate]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-12/1.-josephine-johnson.jpg?h=96864416&itok=u0dti5r- "Josephine Winslow Johnson. [Simon and Schuster, photo provided by the Johnson Estate]")
St. Louis writer and naturalist Josephine Johnson became the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction…
![John Rice Jones. [Columbia Missouri Herald: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1895]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-john-rice-jones.jpg?h=6234be0d&itok=zgUYOJ_3 "John Rice Jones. [Columbia Missouri Herald: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1895]")
John Rice Jones, a pioneering jurist renowned for his erudition, was one of the principal framers of Missouri…