the State Historical Society of Missouri
![A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-05/1.%20Father%20Meurin_0.jpg?h=e873ed3d&itok=KdWbvtwt "A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]")
Sebastien Louis Meurin served as the parish priest in Ste. Genevieve from 1764 through 1768…
![Virginia Minor. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-95372]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Minor-v-Happersett.jpg?h=f72d155d&itok=2Ui1rElZ "Virginia Minor. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-95372]")
Decided in 1873 by the Supreme Court of Missouri and in 1874 by the US Supreme Court, …
![Virginia Minor. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-95372]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Minor_Virginia.jpg?h=79938f3b&itok=RFp3JtMd "Virginia Minor. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-95372]")
Virginia Louisa Minor was born on March 27, 1824, in Caroline County, Virginia, the second…
![Walthall Moore Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1929–1930]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-10/1.-walthall-moore-sr.jpg?h=50d821bc&itok=bmMSf1Gl "Walthall Moore Sr. [Official Manual of the State of Missouri, 1929–1930]")
Walthall Moore Sr. was born on May 1, 1886, in Marion, Alabama, the son of John and Sarah…
![John Mullanphy. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, vol. 3 (1899)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John_Mullanphy.jpg?h=5986835a&itok=Fo6mCsCS "John Mullanphy. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, vol. 3 (1899)]")
John Mullanphy, a merchant and philanthropist, was born in 1758 in northern Ireland near…
![Howard Nemerov. [Washington University Libraries, Special Collections, Howard Nemerov Papers]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Howard_Nemerov.jpg?h=17b87167&itok=5aRtdbee "Howard Nemerov. [Washington University Libraries, Special Collections, Howard Nemerov Papers]")
Howard Nemerov was born on February 29, 1920, in New York City, and died on July 5, 1991,…
![Frank O’Hare as a young man. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-09/1.%20Francis%20Peter%20OHare.jpg?h=4f4df08b&itok=VCeFjcgi "Frank O’Hare as a young man. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis]")
Francis Peter “Frank” O’Hare was born in New Hampton, Iowa, on April 23, 1877, to Peter…
![Henry Clemens Overstolz. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (New York: Southern History Co., 1899)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Henry-Clemens-Overstolz.jpg?h=e0a3fa4b&itok=G14kmhh1 "Henry Clemens Overstolz. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis (New York: Southern History Co., 1899)]")
Henry Clemens Overstolz was a St. Louis businessman and politician. He was born on July 7,…
![Benjamin O’Fallon. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.81.33]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/OFallon_Benjamin.jpg?h=096e177c&itok=8fFddcEx "Benjamin O’Fallon. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.81.33]")
Prominent in Missouri as an Indian agent and advocate of the American fur-trade interests…
![John O’Fallon. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, vol. 3]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/OFallon_John.jpg?h=4b482cab&itok=yHEjO0-m "John O’Fallon. [William Hyde and Howard L. Conard, eds., Encyclopedia of the History of St. Louis, vol. 3]")
John O’Fallon, a St. Louis merchant, banker, and philanthropist, was widely praised after…