the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Edward-Hempstead.jpg?h=327deaef&itok=Zp2ycOli "Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]")
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…
![Henry S. Geyer. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Collection, P0004-002099]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Henry%20S.%20Geyer.jpg?h=0152cff4&itok=dDPS5Fld "Henry S. Geyer. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Collection, P0004-002099]")
Henry S. Geyer was born in Frederick, Maryland, on December 9, 1790. He received a private…
Andrew Henry, a mountain man whose innovations revolutionized the modi operandi of the American fur business…
![Wilson Price Hunt. Pastel portrait drawing by O. L. Erickson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Collection, 1903-005-0011]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Wilson%20Price%20Hunt.jpg?h=a3802cc1&itok=Pin3RoIR "Wilson Price Hunt. Pastel portrait drawing by O. L. Erickson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Collection, 1903-005-0011]")
Wilson Price Hunt was born to a prosperous merchant family in Asbury, New Jersey, on March…
![Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Francis-White-Cloud.jpg?h=46afd397&itok=EItLaSEK "Francis White Cloud. Portrait by George Catlin, circa 1844–1845. [Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art]")
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
![John Rice Jones. [Columbia Missouri Herald: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1895]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-06/1.-john-rice-jones.jpg?h=6234be0d&itok=zgUYOJ_3 "John Rice Jones. [Columbia Missouri Herald: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, 1895]")
John Rice Jones, a pioneering jurist renowned for his erudition, was one of the principal framers of Missouri…
![Stephen Watts Kearny. [Engraving by Y. B. Welch for Graham’s Magazine, from an original daguerreotype by Peter A. Juley & Son, photographers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Stephen_Watts_Kearny.jpg?h=cf6f823a&itok=U41HI4sO "Stephen Watts Kearny. [Engraving by Y. B. Welch for Graham’s Magazine, from an original daguerreotype by Peter A. Juley & Son, photographers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection]")
Stephen Watts Kearny was born on August 30, 1794, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the…
![Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-William_Carr_Lane.jpg?h=c35f98b2&itok=z0lEeTib "Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]")
Born on December 1, 1789, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, William Carr Lane spent most of…
![This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Lewis%20and%20Clark.jpg?h=48be2a7f&itok=wWe64dFT "This 1806 map was reproduced from William Clark’s original map that traced the expedition’s journey across the Louisiana Purchase to the Pacific Ocean. [State Historical Society of Missouri Map Collection, 800.4 C549m 1804-1806]")
Between May 1804 and September 1806, the Lewis and Clark expedition made its way up…
The Louisiana Purchase, an 1803 land deal between the United States and France, doubled the size of the United…