the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-09/1.%20Lewis%20Linn.jpg?h=40f6870e&itok=nj-lCZUQ "Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]")
A frontier doctor, Jacksonian Democrat, and US senator, Lewis F. Linn has been called both…
![Isidor Loeb. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896–2010, P0137-12873]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Isidor_Loeb.jpg?h=4a726eab&itok=NfGL8zHm "Isidor Loeb. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896–2010, P0137-12873]")
Isidor Loeb, a longtime Missouri educator and authority on state government and taxation,…
Regis (Registre) Loisel was born near Montreal, Canada, in about 1773, and at an early age…
![Edward V. Long (left) at the inauguration of Missouri governor Warren E. Hearnes, 1965. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection, P0016-045]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Edward%20V.%20Long.jpg?h=5eaac381&itok=X3sIO4iU "Edward V. Long (left) at the inauguration of Missouri governor Warren E. Hearnes, 1965. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection, P0016-045]")
Edward V. Long was born on July 18, 1908, in Lincoln County, Missouri. He received his…
![John B. C. Lucas. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N29998]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-02/1.-john-b.-c.-lucas.jpg?itok=7zPWq6lI "John B. C. Lucas. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N29998]")
When John B. C. Lucas died in St. Louis in 1842 at the age of eighty-four, his obituary described him as “…
![This watercolor rendering of “Plan de Luzieres” is thought to show the French ancestral home of Pierre-Charles Delassus de Luzières. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, X08600]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-07/1.-pierre-charles-delassus-de-luiziere.jpg?h=d41dc4b5&itok=m0JPiZsI "This watercolor rendering of “Plan de Luzieres” is thought to show the French ancestral home of Pierre-Charles Delassus de Luzières. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, X08600]")
Pierre-Charles Delassus de Luzières played an important role in the history of Upper Louisiana during the…
![Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_Lyon.jpg?h=c90d5ca1&itok=40YCdnKd "Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]")
Nathaniel Lyon, a US Army officer from 1841 to 1861, was born in rural Ashford (later…
![Susan Shelby Magoffin. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N12846]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Susan_Shelby_Magoffin.jpg?h=c1a32540&itok=-gk7HbjM "Susan Shelby Magoffin. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N12846]")
Susan Shelby Magoffin was born on July 30, 1827, at Arcasia, her father’s estate near…
![Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photograph Collection, P0300]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Mary_Elizabeth_Mahnkey.jpg?h=fdc48845&itok=wxfN7XjG "Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photograph Collection, P0300]")
Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey was a lifelong newspaper and magazine journalist, and a regional poet. Born in Boone…
![Alexander Majors. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Kansas City Research Center]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Alexander%20Majors.jpg?h=b25d747c&itok=h8kInbfu "Alexander Majors. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Kansas City Research Center]")
Those familiar with the Pony Express recognize Russell, Majors, and Waddell as the…