the State Historical Society of Missouri
![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…
Adaline Weston Couzins, a volunteer nursing escort and relief worker during the Civil War, was born in Brighton,…
Phoebe Wilson Couzins, a lawyer and suffragist, was born on September 8, 1842, to John Edward Decker and…
![Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Francisco%20Cruzat.jpg?h=c5468509&itok=axq6uBu4 "Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]")
Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that…
![John F. Darby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Division, N12110]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20John%20F.%20Darby.jpg?h=8f644ba2&itok=Fp9PWpyi "John F. Darby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Division, N12110]")
John Darby was a highly accomplished and distinguished lawyer, banker, philanthropist, and…
![Charles de Hault Delassus. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N36696]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Charles%20de%20Hault%20Delassus.jpg?h=9a83fe1d&itok=iH6qI-8F "Charles de Hault Delassus. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N36696]")
Following the Louisiana Purchase, Charles de Hault Delassus, Upper Louisiana’s last Spanish lieutenant…
![Herman Dreer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection, S0336-167]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Herman%20Dreer.jpg?h=231045b5&itok=_jirNr2L "Herman Dreer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, UMSL Black History Project Photograph Collection, S0336-167]")
Herman Dreer, a respected Black St. Louis educator and scholar, was born on September 12,…
![Louis William DuBourg. [Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, DC]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Louis_William_Dubourg.jpg?h=8feb261c&itok=WJ_eksKM "Louis William DuBourg. [Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, DC]")
William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early republican period of…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
![Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-12/1.-father-dunne.jpg?h=8595de87&itok=GpoLkFFp "Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]")
Fighting Father Dunne, an RKO film, premiered in St. Louis on May 11, 1948. The black-…