John S. Sappington. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Thomas Easterly Daguerrotypes Collection, Photographs and Prints Collection, N17356]

            John S. Sappington was a…

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Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in…

Carl O. Sauer. © Chicago Maroon. [University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center, apf7-01181]

Carl Sauer probably had a more profound effect on American geographic thought than any…

Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]

Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years. Trained…

John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]

John McAllister Schofield was born in Gerry, Chautauqua County, New York, on September 2,…

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…

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An unheralded Afro-Indian enslaved woman’s dreams of freedom propelled one of the most…

Elizabeth Seifert in 1938. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Pearl Boucher Matthews Scrapbook, C4587]

Elizabeth Seifert published her first book in 1938 when she was forty-one years old. As one of thirteen…

James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]

James Shields holds the distinction of being the only person to be elected to the US Senate…

Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]

When Floyd Calvin Shoemaker retired as secretary, librarian, and editor of publications of…