Plan of Hardeman’s Garden, also called Fruitage Farm, with labyrinth. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Glen O. Hardeman Collection, C3655]

John Hardeman, best remembered for the botanical showplace he created on the banks of the…

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…

Hooker Cut as it looked upon completion in 1945. This view is looking east on Route 66. [Courtesy of Missouri State Archives, Missouri Department of Transportation Collection]

By the middle of 1940, Europe was engulfed in war. On September 16, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed legislation…

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…

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…

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…

Scott Joplin. [New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, 1692841]

Known during his lifetime as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” Scott Joplin was an African…

Frederick T. Kemper. [James Addison Quarles, The Life of Prof. F. T. Kemper A.M., a Christian Educator, 1884]

Frederick Thomas Kemper was an educator and the founder of Kemper Military School and…

Abiel Leonard. The Green Bag (April 1891): 167.

Abiel Leonard, a lawyer, jurist, and political leader, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on May…

Nathaniel Leonard. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James M. Denny Photograph Collection (P0809)]

A prominent farmer and stock raiser of Cooper County, Missouri, and the founder of…