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…
![Robert P. W. Boatright, standing center with his hands in his pockets, with others gathered before a footrace at an unknown location circa 1900. [Sioux City (IA) Journal, June 4, 1911]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-10/1.-robert-boatright_0.jpg?itok=kIDSAAzv "Robert P. W. Boatright, standing center with his hands in his pockets, with others gathered before a footrace at an unknown location circa 1900. [Sioux City (IA) Journal, June 4, 1911]")
Robert P. W. Boatright, hailed as the “dean of confidence men” by scholar David Maurer, was born in 1859 in…
![Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Nathan%20Boone.jpg?h=4253ce28&itok=IjWRbAYP "Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]")
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s…
![John Homer Bothwell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri General Assembly Portraits, P0217]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20John%20Homer%20Bothwell.jpg?h=357b2635&itok=GCDDnAWE "John Homer Bothwell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri General Assembly Portraits, P0217]")
John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was…
![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 Carver’s birth.…
![The Cassville and Exeter’s Railway engine number 345 was purchased in 1935. [State Historical Society of Missouri Rolla Research Center, Cassville & Exeter Railway Company Records, R0421]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-06/1.-dinky.png?itok=e7Ukc-G1 "The Cassville and Exeter’s Railway engine number 345 was purchased in 1935. [State Historical Society of Missouri Rolla Research Center, Cassville & Exeter Railway Company Records, R0421]")
One of the shortest standard-gauge railway lines in the United States was built in Barry County, Missouri, by…
![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,…