Father Augustus Tolton. [Image in public domain]
Augustus Tolton (1854–1897)

Father Augustus Tolton, recognized as the first openly African American priest in the United States…

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Silas Turnbo. [Courtesy of the Springfield–Greene County Library District]
Silas C. Turnbo (1844–1925)

Silas C. Turnbo collected stories from Ozarkers in the upper White River country of…

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James Milton Turner, circa 1870. [Lincoln University]
James Milton Turner (1839?–1915)

Although numerous secondary accounts of James Milton Turner’s life list his birth date as…

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Van Horn Tavern in 1913
Van Horn Tavern

The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was the last known log…

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George Graham Vest. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri Legislators Portraits, P1084]
George Graham Vest (1830–1904)

George Graham Vest, who served four terms as a US senator from Missouri (1879–1903), was…

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John Gabriel Woerner. [William F. Woerner, J. Gabriel Woerner: A Biographical Sketch (1912)]
John Gabriel Woerner (1826–1900)

John Gabriel Woerner, a celebrated St. Louis lawyer, legal scholar, journalist, and…

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Cole Younger, circa 1866. [State Historical Society of Missouri, B. James George Sr. Photograph Collection, P0010-024263]
Cole Younger (1844–1916)

Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger left his family’s Missouri farm in 1862, at age seventeen, to join William…

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