Singer-actor Cliff Edwards was born in Hannibal, Missouri, on June 14, 1895, and is best…
Gordon “Wild Bill” Elliott was one of the film industry’s top moneymakers in westerns…
Curt Flood spent most of his baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing center field for them from 1958…
Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…
Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
Born on April 27, 1896, at Winters, Texas, Rogers Hornsby began his professional baseball…
Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her…
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
Alonzo “Lonnie” Johnson was an extraordinarily gifted blues guitarist and talented singer…
Jolly Mill, a grist mill and whiskey distillery, was built in the late 1840s on…