the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Forrest Donnell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Forrest%20C.%20Donnell.jpg?h=ecf8be9c&itok=EFj4IiQn "Forrest Donnell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]")
Born in Quitman, Missouri, on August 20, 1884, the only child of dry-goods operator John…
![Phil Donnelly. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Phil%20Donnelly.jpg?h=a1a75ae8&itok=u_5NO6a0 "Phil Donnelly. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Governor Portraits, P1091-18639]")
Phil M. Donnelly was born in Lebanon, Missouri, on March 6, 1891. He was educated in…
![Daniel Dunklin. [State Historical Society of Missouri, P1042-018634]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Daniel_Dunklin_P1042-018634.jpg?h=990748b5&itok=uTgjNMck "Daniel Dunklin. [State Historical Society of Missouri, P1042-018634]")
Missouri’s fifth governor, Daniel Dunklin, was born on January 14, 1790, in the Greenville…
![David Rowland Francis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Straus Studio Photographs, P0879]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-01/1.-david-rowland-francis_0.jpg?h=b1c9098b&itok=Jlt-ze6G "David Rowland Francis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Straus Studio Photographs, P0879]")
Mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, secretary of the interior, president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition…
![Lloyd Gaines. [University of Missouri School of Law, Lloyd Gaines Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Lloyd-Gaines.jpg?h=416ef11d&itok=iYyUVG7t "Lloyd Gaines. [University of Missouri School of Law, Lloyd Gaines Collection]")
Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court…
![Carte-de-viste of Hamilton Rowan Gamble. [US National Park Service, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, WICR 11505]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-10/1.-hamilton-gamble.jpg?h=2fb71d81&itok=51aoXoVC "Carte-de-viste of Hamilton Rowan Gamble. [US National Park Service, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, WICR 11505]")
Born on November 29, 1798, Hamilton R. Gamble was the youngest son of Joseph and Anne…
![The editorial room of the Westliche Post, circa 1870. The paper’s prominent figures included Carl Schurz (fourth from left, seated at table), Emil Preetorius (sixth from left), and Joseph Pulitzer (not pictured). [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N01710]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-01/1.-german-press-in-missouri.jpg?h=afc47d21&itok=XA2t2vBK "The editorial room of the Westliche Post, circa 1870. The paper’s prominent figures included Carl Schurz (fourth from left, seated at table), Emil Preetorius (sixth from left), and Joseph Pulitzer (not pictured). [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N01710]")
Of all the ethnic groups to settle in Missouri, none embraced the press more vigorously than the Germans.…
![A muddy road in Lafayette County, Missouri, circa 1910s. At the dawn of the automobile era, the predicament of drivers in Missouri and elsewhere sparked a nationwide Good Roads Movement. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888-G0043]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-11/1.-good-roads-movement.jpg?h=0cd267b8&itok=cLdsW5XX "A muddy road in Lafayette County, Missouri, circa 1910s. At the dawn of the automobile era, the predicament of drivers in Missouri and elsewhere sparked a nationwide Good Roads Movement. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Leonard D. and Marie H. Rehkop Collection of Algert T. Peterson Photographs, C3888-G0043]")
Two convoys of army trucks left St. Louis and Kansas City on September 27, 1920. Their mission was to travel…
![Claiborne Fox Jackson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N21069]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Claiborne%20Fox%20Jackson.jpg?h=8ea2713e&itok=ZPN0hAT_ "Claiborne Fox Jackson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N21069]")
Claiborne Fox Jackson was born in rural Fleming County, in northeastern Kentucky, on April 4, 1806. The son…
![John Rice Jones. [Columbia Missouri Herald: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1895]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-john-rice-jones.jpg?h=6234be0d&itok=zgUYOJ_3 "John Rice Jones. [Columbia Missouri Herald: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1895]")
John Rice Jones, a pioneering jurist renowned for his erudition, was one of the principal framers of Missouri…