the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Arthur Aull. [Courtesy of Chad Stebbins]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Arthur-Aull.jpg?h=f88fb12f&itok=Zrs-c901 "Arthur Aull. [Courtesy of Chad Stebbins]")
Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in…
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
![George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/George-Washington-Carver.jpg?h=c1b467ab&itok=XYqrNEG3 "George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]")
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…
![Samuel Ryan Curtis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James C. Joplin Photograph Collection, P0850-20239]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Samuel%20Ryan%20Curtis.jpg?h=450002ec&itok=0582yCuY "Samuel Ryan Curtis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James C. Joplin Photograph Collection, P0850-20239]")
Samuel Ryan Curtis figured largely in Missouri’s Civil War history from August 1861 through…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
![Westport Landing by pioneer and watercolor artist W. H. Jackson. [William Henry Jackson, Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 19]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20William%20Gilliss.jpg?h=ca4d8aa0&itok=xYuqqVSr "Westport Landing by pioneer and watercolor artist W. H. Jackson. [William Henry Jackson, Scotts Bluff National Monument, SCBL 19]")
Later in life William Gilliss would be a successful trader, real estate speculator, and…
![Herman Jaeger. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Southwest Missouri Region Photograph Collection, P1110]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Herman_Jaeger.jpg?h=edea59cd&itok=ZIxcaUYw "Herman Jaeger. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Southwest Missouri Region Photograph Collection, P1110]")
Herman Jaeger was born in Brugg, Switzerland, on March 23, 1844, the sixth of seven…
![Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_N_Kinney.jpg?h=b52d3aca&itok=IzJ8gtIa "Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]")
Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…
![Emma R. Knell, circa 1926. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Knell Family Photographs Collection, P0708-015517]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Emma%20R.%20Knell.jpg?h=c427acad&itok=yJMP7Qme "Emma R. Knell, circa 1926. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Knell Family Photographs Collection, P0708-015517]")
Emma R. Knell, a businesswoman and politician, was born in Moline, Illinois, on October 21…