Kansas City’s sports fans might be forgiven for overlooking or choosing to forget that…
Progenitor of two of Missouri’s most prominent banking families, William T. Kemper also…
Isaac McCoy was born on June 13, 1784, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. At the age of six,…
Of British, Quaker, and Huguenot heritage, William Rockhill Nelson was born five miles west…
Jack Oakie was long considered one of the screen’s most notorious scene-stealers. He had a…
William Horatio Powell was the epitome of the suave, urbane leading man throughout his…
Katharine Berry Richardson founded the highly respected Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas…
Edgar Snow grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was born on July 17, 1905. After a…
Gladys Swarthout, a concert and operatic mezzo-soprano, was born in Deepwater, Missouri,…