the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Thomas Reynolds. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-003866]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Thomas-Reynolds.jpg?h=caeb754a&itok=8XTW_b2M "Thomas Reynolds. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-003866]")
Elected in 1840, Thomas Reynolds became the seventh Missouri governor. There are few…
![Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-thomas-caute-reynolds.jpg?h=b8c0628d&itok=IcKo6dOh "Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]")
Elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1860, Thomas Caute Reynolds worked diligently to separate Missouri…
![Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-10/1.-sac-and-fox.jpg?h=aa59a2db&itok=1y6DpE0c "Saukie and Fox on the St. Louis waterfront by Karl Bodmer, 1834. [State Historical Society of Missouri Art Collection, 1958.0010c2]")
The Sac and Fox were not native to Missouri, but were significant in Missouri’s territorial and early…
![Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Dan-Saults.jpg?h=fbb74155&itok=5Cih8Mos "Dan Saults. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives, RG103, Department of Conservation Photograph Collection]")
Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years. Trained…
![John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John-McAllister-Schofield.jpg?h=7d9c607f&itok=60oOMUSh "John McAllister Schofield. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-53021]")
John McAllister Schofield was born in Gerry, Chautauqua County, New York, on September 2,…
![James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-James-Shelds.jpg?h=b9de22ae&itok=XsYDtqRm "James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]")
James Shields holds the distinction of being the only person to be elected to the US Senate…
![Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Floyd-Calvin-Shoemaker.jpg?h=aa138b63&itok=2zUm8Emt "Floyd Calvin Shoemaker. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs Collection, P0137-014054]")
When Floyd Calvin Shoemaker retired as secretary, librarian, and editor of publications of…
![Franz Sigel. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-05090]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Franz-Siegel.jpg?h=bac0bb5f&itok=WbrCB8IY "Franz Sigel. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-05090]")
Franz Sigel, a soldier, editor, and public official, was born in Sinsheim, Baden, on…
![Bess Truman’s official White House portrait by Greta Kempton. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 2008-149]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Bess%20Truman.jpg?h=ed1f4180&itok=8klDJrns "Bess Truman’s official White House portrait by Greta Kempton. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 2008-149]")
Born in Independence, Missouri, on February 13, 1885, Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, who as…
![James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-James-Milton-Turner.jpg?h=d64323c3&itok=nkqu6MYa "James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]")
Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as…