George Husmann was born on November 4, 1827, in Meyenburg, Prussia, the son of J. H. Martin…
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
Herman Jaeger was born in Brugg, Switzerland, on March 23, 1844, the sixth of seven…
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…
Known during his lifetime as the “King of Ragtime Writers,” Scott Joplin was an African…
Progenitor of two of Missouri’s most prominent banking families, William T. Kemper also…
Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…
Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of…
“Once the most important and popular play place of the Tri-State district,” Lakeside Park…