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…
Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…
Kate Chopin began and ended her life in St. Louis, with an interlude as a young wife and mother in New…
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…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Elizabeth Jane Dugan, better known by her pseudonym “Rosa Pearle,” was the founder, editor…
Born on June 22, 1845, in Strasbourg, France, Edmond Jacques Eckel demonstrated an early…