World Wars Era (1914–1945)

Jane Ace, a radio actress whose birth name was Jane Epstein and who was known professionally as Jane Sherwood, was…

Zoë Byrd Akins was born on October 30, 1886, in Humansville, Missouri, the second of three children of Thomas…

By popular consensus, Tom Bass was one of the most skillful and popular horsemen of his era. At the time of his…

Pitching immortal Satchel Paige, noted for his tall tales as much as his pitching, claimed that James “Cool Papa”…

Kenneth Brown Billups Sr. was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 14, 1918, the son of…

Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…

Historians have been unable to determine the exact date, or even year, of George Washington…

Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…

Kate Leila Gregg, a professor of English at Lindenwood College in St.…

Although William Christopher Handy spent relatively little of his long life in Missouri,…