Gilded Age and Progressive Era (1878–1913)

John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was…

James Overton Broadhead was born on May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the oldest…

Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the…

Although his date of birth remains uncertain, Nathaniel C. Bruce was probably born in 1868…

With the exception of two years in the early twentieth century, the state of Missouri has always allowed the…

Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington Carver’s birth.…

Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…

Peter Humphries Clark provided leadership for African American communities in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Ohio…

Phoebe Wilson Couzins, a lawyer and suffragist, was born on September 8, 1842, to John Edward Decker and…

Jane Darwell, a pioneering film actress whose career spanned more than sixty years, was…