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…

Forrest C. “Phog” Allen, whose foghorn voice earned him his nickname, was a masterful,…

Arthur Aull, who edited the Lamar Democrat from 1900 until his death in…

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…

One of the key St. Louis businessmen and philanthropists of his generation in St. Louis,…

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

DeVerne Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne…