the State Historical Society of Missouri
![William Keil. [Oregon Historical Society, OrHi 4508]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20William%20Keil.jpg?h=f62b8f15&itok=w7echtbx "William Keil. [Oregon Historical Society, OrHi 4508]")
William Keil was born on March 6, 1811, or 1812, in Bleicherode, Erfurt, Prussia. His…
Abiel Leonard, a lawyer, jurist, and political leader, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on May…
![A facsimile of the title page in the first edition of Zenon Leonard’s narrative about his experiences. [Adventures of Zenon Leonard (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Zenas_Leonard.jpg?h=cab23028&itok=lEAzXXCf "A facsimile of the title page in the first edition of Zenon Leonard’s narrative about his experiences. [Adventures of Zenon Leonard (Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1904)]")
Zenas Leonard, a fur trapper best known as the author of Adventures of a Mountain Man…
Regis (Registre) Loisel was born near Montreal, Canada, in about 1773, and at an early age…
![Susan Shelby Magoffin. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N12846]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Susan_Shelby_Magoffin.jpg?h=c1a32540&itok=-gk7HbjM "Susan Shelby Magoffin. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N12846]")
Susan Shelby Magoffin was born on July 30, 1827, at Arcasia, her father’s estate near…
![A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Pierre%20Gabriel%20Marest.jpg?h=816a8e6d&itok=isPnDzQI "A late nineteenth-century illustration of French missionaries traveling by canoe with Native Americans. [Harper’s Monthly, April 1892]")
Pierre Gabriel Marest, a Jesuit priest in the Illinois Country, was among a group of French…
![Isaac McCoy. [Oklahoma Historical Society, Muriel Wright Collection, 15075]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Isaac%20McCoy.jpg?h=f693cbf2&itok=M-IXdp5f "Isaac McCoy. [Oklahoma Historical Society, Muriel Wright Collection, 15075]")
Isaac McCoy was born on June 13, 1784, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. At the age of six,…
![William McKendree. [O. P. Fitzgerald, Centenary Cameos: 1784–1884]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20William%20McKendree.jpg?h=46e02049&itok=ZG_kszlb "William McKendree. [O. P. Fitzgerald, Centenary Cameos: 1784–1884]")
William McKendree was the first American-born bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and…
![A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-05/1.%20Father%20Meurin_0.jpg?h=e873ed3d&itok=KdWbvtwt "A cathedral mosaic of Father Sebastien Louis Meurin performing a baptism. [Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis]")
Sebastien Louis Meurin served as the parish priest in Ste. Genevieve from 1764 through 1768…
![John Mason Peck. [Album of Missouri Baptists (St. Louis: Central Baptist Pub. Co., 1904), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/John-Mason-Peck.jpg?h=ef195d8b&itok=yT860gN7 "John Mason Peck. [Album of Missouri Baptists (St. Louis: Central Baptist Pub. Co., 1904), p. 2]")
John Mason Peck, a pioneer, Baptist missionary, noted preacher, author, and journalist on…