the State Historical Society of Missouri
![John Homer Bothwell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri General Assembly Portraits, P0217]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20John%20Homer%20Bothwell.jpg?h=357b2635&itok=GCDDnAWE "John Homer Bothwell. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Missouri General Assembly Portraits, P0217]")
John Homer Bothwell, a capitalist, philanthropist, attorney, and state representative, was…
![James O. Broadhead. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2792]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20James%20O.%20Broadhead.jpg?h=2441e8f1&itok=bct3BZpL "James O. Broadhead. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0233-2792]")
James Overton Broadhead was born on May 29, 1819, in Charlottesville, Virginia, the oldest…
![Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Conrad%20Brokmeyer.jpg?h=00a5b231&itok=wKNu9a76 "Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]")
Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the…
![Nathaniel C. Bruce (right) and an unidentified student from the Bartlett Agricultural and Industrial School. [State Historical Society of Missouri photo collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel-C-Bruce.jpg?h=65d6c70f&itok=DxLXYkGH "Nathaniel C. Bruce (right) and an unidentified student from the Bartlett Agricultural and Industrial School. [State Historical Society of Missouri photo collections]")
Although his date of birth remains uncertain, Nathaniel C. Bruce was probably born in 1868…
![The Administration Building at the Missouri State Penitentiary, 1955. Missouri carried out executions at the penitentiary’s gas chamber from 1937 until switching to lethal injection in 1989 and moving its death row to the Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County. [Missouri State Archives/Missouri Digital Heritage, Mark Schreiber Collection, MS297_255_009]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-capital-punishment-in-missouri.jpg?h=436a5d0a&itok=-rpMGoZ7 "The Administration Building at the Missouri State Penitentiary, 1955. Missouri carried out executions at the penitentiary’s gas chamber from 1937 until switching to lethal injection in 1989 and moving its death row to the Potosi Correctional Center in Washington County. [Missouri State Archives/Missouri Digital Heritage, Mark Schreiber Collection, MS297_255_009]")
With the exception of two years in the early twentieth century, the state of Missouri has always allowed the…
![George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/George-Washington-Carver.jpg?h=c1b467ab&itok=XYqrNEG3 "George Washington Carver. [Courtesy of Tuskegee University Archives]")
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington Carver’s birth.…
![The Cassville and Exeter’s Railway engine number 345 was purchased in 1935. [State Historical Society of Missouri Rolla Research Center, Cassville & Exeter Railway Company Records, R0421]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-06/1.-dinky.png?itok=e7Ukc-G1 "The Cassville and Exeter’s Railway engine number 345 was purchased in 1935. [State Historical Society of Missouri Rolla Research Center, Cassville & Exeter Railway Company Records, R0421]")
One of the shortest standard-gauge railway lines in the United States was built in Barry County, Missouri, by…
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
![Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-09/1.-peter-humphries-clark.jpg?h=f348060f&itok=4l1ReKo3 "Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]")
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…