Fannie Hurst, the daughter of Rose Koppel and Samuel Hurst, was born at the home of her…
The Ioways did not live in what is now Missouri for much of the historical era.…
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…
The biography of Joseph James Jones is both the story of the life of an American artist and…
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…
Emma R. Knell, a businesswoman and politician, was born in Moline, Illinois, on October 21…
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, born in Concordia, Missouri, on May 9, 1907, became…
“Once the most important and popular play place of the Tri-State district,” Lakeside Park…