the State Historical Society of Missouri
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
![Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Phoebe-Apperson-Hearst.jpg?h=1b8b84bf&itok=qbqmm_sb "Phoebe Apperson Hearst. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Gregory Photographs Collection (P0604), P0604-10921]")
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the…
During the early hours of December 16, 1811, a series of violent shakes roused inhabitants of the mid-Mississippi…
![A Union encampment in the Arcadia valley early in the war. Pilot Knob Mountain is at right. [Harper’s Weekly, September 21, 1861]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Battle-of-Pilot-Knob.jpg?h=f8e16983&itok=52QaphHB "A Union encampment in the Arcadia valley early in the war. Pilot Knob Mountain is at right. [Harper’s Weekly, September 21, 1861]")
In September of 1864, Confederate army troops led by Major General Sterling Price entered…
![Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Ferdinand-Rozier.jpg?h=fbd899b5&itok=vyvUpIp6 "Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]")
Ferdinand Rozier was an early resident of historic Ste. Genevieve and…
![Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Theodore-Pease-Russell.jpg?h=db1a3328&itok=6tNlCApu "Theodore Pease Russell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, John Steele McCormick Collection, R0877]")
Born in 1820, Theodore Russell was the third son of Cyrus and Rebecca Russell, who…
![Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Henry-Rowe-Schoolcraft.jpg?h=604cd0e2&itok=nO__aAnQ "Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. [Popular Science Monthly, May 1890]")
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft has a deserved reputation as an accomplished scientist-explorer who…
![John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-John-Wesley-Emerson.jpg?h=698ee15c&itok=_VkQiIl9 "John Wesley Emerson, circa 1880. Photograph by John A. Scholten. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2542]")
John Emerson, a lawyer in Ironton, Missouri, became a small-town Victorian gentleman who…