Arsania Williams. [State Historical Society of Missouri St. Louis Research Center, University of Missouri Saint Louis Black History Project Photograph Collection (S0201)]
Arsania M. Williams (1875?–1954)

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, around 1875—sources differ on the year of her birth—Arsania…

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Carl Wimar, circa 1860. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38636]
Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar (1828–1862)

In his St. Louis studio, Charles “Carl” Ferdinand Wimar painted the Missouri River frontier…

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John Gabriel Woerner. [William F. Woerner, J. Gabriel Woerner: A Biographical Sketch (1912)]
John Gabriel Woerner (1826–1900)

John Gabriel Woerner, a celebrated St. Louis lawyer, legal scholar, journalist, and…

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William S. Woods. [A Memorial and Biographical Record of Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri, 1896]
William Stone Woods (1840–1917)

William Stone Woods was born on November 1, 1840, the son of James Harris and Martha Jane…

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Prison photographs of Cleo Wright. [Courtesy of Missouri State Archives]
Cleo Wright (1916–1942)

Born in Jefferson County, Arkansas, on June 16, 1916, Ricelor Cleodas Watson was the son of…

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Josephine Silone Yates. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-50313]
Josephine Silone Yates (1859–1912)

Josephine Silone was born in Mattituck, New York, in 1859, the youngest daughter of…

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Cole Younger, circa 1866. [State Historical Society of Missouri, B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024263]
Cole Younger (1844–1916)

Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger left his family’s Missouri farm in 1862, at age seventeen, to join William…

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