the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Frederick T. Kemper. [James Addison Quarles, The Life of Prof. F. T. Kemper A.M., a Christian Educator, 1884]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Frederick%20T.%20Kemper.jpg?h=cfc62ba2&itok=UDCnnJbH "Frederick T. Kemper. [James Addison Quarles, The Life of Prof. F. T. Kemper A.M., a Christian Educator, 1884]")
Frederick Thomas Kemper was an educator and the founder of Kemper Military School and…
![Austin A. King. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01330]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Austin_A_King.jpg?h=1385baad&itok=zQ3Lk3ZD "Austin A. King. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01330]")
Born in Sullivan County, Tennessee, on September 21, 1802, Austin A. King was educated in…
![Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-04/1.%20Arnold%20Krekel.jpg?h=2f801a8e&itok=kE7sGgUx "Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]")
Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…
![Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-William_Carr_Lane.jpg?h=c35f98b2&itok=z0lEeTib "Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]")
Born on December 1, 1789, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, William Carr Lane spent most of…
The Lemp Brewery in St. Louis was established by Johann Adam Lemp in the early…
Abiel Leonard, a lawyer, jurist, and political leader, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on May…
![Nathaniel Leonard. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James M. Denny Photograph Collection (P0809)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_Leonard.jpg?h=bf6d059c&itok=euwfBqtt "Nathaniel Leonard. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James M. Denny Photograph Collection (P0809)]")
A prominent farmer and stock raiser of Cooper County, Missouri, and the founder of…
![A facsimile of the title page in the first edition of Zenon Leonard’s narrative about his experiences. [Adventures of Zenon Leonard (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Zenas_Leonard.jpg?h=cab23028&itok=lEAzXXCf "A facsimile of the title page in the first edition of Zenon Leonard’s narrative about his experiences. [Adventures of Zenon Leonard (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)]")
Zenas Leonard, a fur trapper best known as the author of Adventures of a Mountain Man…
![Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-09/1.%20Lewis%20Linn.jpg?h=40f6870e&itok=nj-lCZUQ "Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]")
A frontier doctor, Jacksonian Democrat, and US senator, Lewis F. Linn has been called both…