the State Historical Society of Missouri
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
![Auguste Chouteau. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1869-001-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Auguste%20Chouteau.jpg?h=3727f4e6&itok=pVycVU5w "Auguste Chouteau. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1869-001-0001]")
In the early history of St. Louis and its trans-Mississippi hinterlands, Auguste Chouteau…
![Jean Pierre Chouteau Sr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N22207]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-02/1.%20Jean%20Pierre%20Chouteau.jpg?h=3c8849c0&itok=Tmt5XONW "Jean Pierre Chouteau Sr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N22207]")
Jean Pierre Chouteau, known as Pierre, was a pioneer settler in St. Louis and the territory that was to…
![Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Marie-Therese-Bourgeois-Chouteau.jpg?h=fa71d962&itok=Z7OIpIoD "Francois M. Guyol de Guiran created this portrait of Marie Therese Bourgeois Chouteau, the “founding mother” of St. Louis, in 1810. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Objects Collection, 1950-084-0002]")
Marie Thérèse Bourgeois Chouteau was born in New Orleans on January 14, 1733, but she was…
![Pierre Chouteau Jr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1922-024-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-11/1.-pierre-chouteau-jr.jpg?h=134f337b&itok=N51TRSGp "Pierre Chouteau Jr. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1922-024-0001]")
Pierre Chouteau Jr., scion of the powerful early St. Louis family and the most influential…
![Cyprian Clamorgan’s The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Library, Lib197-00001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-04/colored-aristocracy.jpg?h=228370f4&itok=O0nidoyJ "Cyprian Clamorgan’s The Colored Aristocracy of St. Louis. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MHS Library, Lib197-00001]")
The grandson of Jacques Clamorgan, Cyprian Clamorgan wrote The Colored Aristocracy of St.…
![Note of Jacques Clamorgan agreeing to pay skins worth $153 to Pierre Chouteau on July 19, 1807. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Clamorgan Family Papers, A0288-00017]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-04/1.-jacques-clamorgan.jpg?h=21c28b04&itok=oTKoxJDn "Note of Jacques Clamorgan agreeing to pay skins worth $153 to Pierre Chouteau on July 19, 1807. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Clamorgan Family Papers, A0288-00017]")
Jacques Phillippe Clamorgan arrived on the Missouri frontier in the early 1780s and spent the rest of his…
Anna Lansing Clapp, president of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis, was born on August 28, 1814, at…
![Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-09/1.-peter-humphries-clark.jpg?h=f348060f&itok=4l1ReKo3 "Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]")
Peter Humphries Clark provided leadership for African American communities in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Ohio…
![Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-01/1.-arthur-holly-compton.jpg?h=c249c502&itok=k2I3fXR9 "Arthur Holly Compton. [University of Chicago Library, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-01878]")
Arthur Holly Compton earned international recognition for his research in X-rays, sharing the 1927 Nobel Prize for…