the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Robert P. W. Boatright, standing center with his hands in his pockets, with others gathered before a footrace at an unknown location circa 1900. [Sioux City (IA) Journal, June 4, 1911]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-10/1.-robert-boatright_0.jpg?itok=kIDSAAzv "Robert P. W. Boatright, standing center with his hands in his pockets, with others gathered before a footrace at an unknown location circa 1900. [Sioux City (IA) Journal, June 4, 1911]")
Robert P. W. Boatright, hailed as the “dean of confidence men” by scholar David Maurer, was born in 1859 in…
![Henry Boernstein circa 1873. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20961]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Henry-Boernstein.jpg?h=d6ce1970&itok=1LiDP9uT "Henry Boernstein circa 1873. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N20961]")
Henry Boernstein, a journalist and dramatist, was born Georg Christian Heinrich Börnstein…
![James O. Broadhead. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2792]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20James%20O.%20Broadhead.jpg?h=2441e8f1&itok=bct3BZpL "James O. Broadhead. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2792]")
James Overton Broadhead was born on May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the oldest…
![Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Conrad%20Brokmeyer.jpg?h=00a5b231&itok=wKNu9a76 "Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]")
Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the…
![DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-DeVerne-Calloway.jpg?h=6789cd7f&itok=GATiXLLc "DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]")
DeVerne Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne…
![Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Ernest-Calloway.jpg?h=4299bc80&itok=Zr6bOOin "Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]")
Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became…
![Robert Campbell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Robert%20Campbell.jpg?h=85a0f5f3&itok=g-85bsQq "Robert Campbell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38642]")
Robert Campbell’s lengthy life bridged the transition from fur trade to modern capitalistic…
![William C. Carr. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. [Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1970.156]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-02/1.%20William%20C.%20Carr.jpg?h=0f8654f6&itok=tR13o6kL "William C. Carr. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. [Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1970.156]")
William C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in…
![George Catlin posed for this portrait by English landscape artist William Fisk in 1849. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.70.14]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-02/1.%20George%20Catlin%20portrait.jpg?h=63244791&itok=yw4rVy5k "George Catlin posed for this portrait by English landscape artist William Fisk in 1849. [National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.70.14]")
George Catlin was among the earliest Euro-American artists to paint the Indigenous peoples…
![Joseph Charless. [Thomas J. Scharf, History of St. Louis City and County, vol. 2, 1883]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Joseph%20Charless.jpg?h=b77c6f65&itok=DIhTMCBf "Joseph Charless. [Thomas J. Scharf, History of St. Louis City and County, vol. 2, 1883]")
Joseph Charless, the first printer in St. Louis and father of journalism west of the…