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Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…
On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome…
Thomas Allen was among the most prominent and powerful individuals who led St. Louis in its transition from…
The Baby Tooth Survey was formed in 1958 by the Committee of Nuclear Information, a grassroots organization that…
Pitching immortal Satchel Paige, noted for his tall tales as much as his pitching, claimed that James “Cool Papa”…
![Frederic L. Billon. [Billon, Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821 (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1888), frontispiece]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Frederic-Billon.jpg?itok=fhcoHv_g "Frederic L. Billon. [Billon, Annals of St. Louis in Its Territorial Days from 1804 to 1821 (St. Louis: Nixon-Jones Printing Co., 1888), frontispiece]")
Frederic L. Billon’s amateur antiquarian pursuits in the mid-nineteenth century resulted in…
![Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. [National Association of Negro Musicians]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Kenneth-Brown-Billups-Jr.jpg?itok=yeb4OyuM "Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. [National Association of Negro Musicians]")
Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 1918, the son of…
![Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Daniel-Bissell.jpg?itok=92tSvLpV "Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]")
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
Anna Lansing Clapp, president of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis, was born on August 28, 1814, at…