the State Historical Society of Missouri
![William T. Kemper in 1902. [Political History of Jackson County: Biographical Sketches of the Men Who Have Helped to Make It (1902)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-11/1.-william-t.-kemper.jpg?h=e68902a0&itok=dLv2-_ZK "William T. Kemper in 1902. [Political History of Jackson County: Biographical Sketches of the Men Who Have Helped to Make It (1902)]")
Progenitor of two of Missouri’s most prominent banking families, William T. Kemper also…
![Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_N_Kinney.jpg?h=b52d3aca&itok=IzJ8gtIa "Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]")
Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…
![Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-04/1.%20Arnold%20Krekel.jpg?h=2f801a8e&itok=kE7sGgUx "Arnold Krekel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder und Hammer! The German Experience in St. Louis Records, S0941-079]")
Arnold Krekel, who served from 1865 to 1888 as a US judge for the Western District of Missouri, was born on…
![The Figure 8 roller coaster at Lakeside Park, added in 1907, was a “huge reversing spiral” in which cars rushed down a half-mile curving track with “three figure eights in a descent of 50 feet.” [Courtesy of the Joplin Historical & Mineral Museum]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-06/1.%20Figure%208%20Roller%20Coaster%20Lakeside%20Park%20Joplin%20Museum%20Complex.JPG?h=c36628e1&itok=hcrmvx97 "The Figure 8 roller coaster at Lakeside Park, added in 1907, was a “huge reversing spiral” in which cars rushed down a half-mile curving track with “three figure eights in a descent of 50 feet.” [Courtesy of the Joplin Historical & Mineral Museum]")
“Once the most important and popular play place of the Tri-State district,” Lakeside Park in Jasper…
![Albert Bond Lambert with Orville Wright in St. Louis, circa 1910. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0059-00002]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-10/1.-lambert-with-orville-wright-p0059-00002-mhs-stl.jpg?h=8899aa07&itok=Th08gJ4r "Albert Bond Lambert with Orville Wright in St. Louis, circa 1910. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0059-00002]")
Important in the history of business in Missouri, Albert Bond Lambert made even larger…
The Lemp Brewery in St. Louis was established by Johann Adam Lemp in the early…
![Theodore Link, circa 1890. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N27617]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Theodore_Carl_Link.jpg?h=1ec86aa2&itok=7WFB8PCo "Theodore Link, circa 1890. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N27617]")
Theodore Carl Link is best known as the architect of St. Louis’s Union Station, but if he…
![Isidor Loeb. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896–2010, P0137-12873]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Isidor_Loeb.jpg?h=4a726eab&itok=NfGL8zHm "Isidor Loeb. [State Historical Society of Missouri Photographs, 1896–2010, P0137-12873]")
Isidor Loeb, a longtime Missouri educator and authority on state government and taxation,…
![Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photograph Collection, P0300]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Mary_Elizabeth_Mahnkey.jpg?h=fdc48845&itok=wxfN7XjG "Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary Kathy Dains Photograph Collection, P0300]")
Mary Elizabeth Mahnkey was a lifelong newspaper and magazine journalist, and a regional poet. Born in Boone…
![John Malang. [Floyd Calvin Shoemaker, Missouri and Missourians: Land of Contrasts and People of Achievements, 1943]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-04/1.-john-malang.jpg?h=7d0e74b9&itok=G6K7Xt8P "John Malang. [Floyd Calvin Shoemaker, Missouri and Missourians: Land of Contrasts and People of Achievements, 1943]")
John Malang, “The Father of Missouri Roads,” was born on September 9, 1866 or 1867. Sources provide…