Born on June 22, 1845, in Strasbourg, France, Edmond Jacques Eckel demonstrated an early…
John Emerson, a lawyer in Ironton, Missouri, became a small-town Victorian gentleman who…
Mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, secretary of the interior, president of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition…
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Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…
Jean Harlow was born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. Her…
Born on September 10, 1835, in North Killington, Connecticut, William Torrey Harris was a…
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, on September 11, 1833, to Quaker parents the Reverend…
When she was a little girl in pigtails, Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson sometimes rode on the…
Rupert Hughes, a versatile popular writer, was born in Lancaster, Missouri, on January 31,…