the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Manuel Pérez. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, X04268]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Manuel-Perez.jpg?h=a9b70126&itok=LZTYu_GW "Manuel Pérez. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, X04268]")
Manuel Pérez, Spanish lieutenant governor in St. Louis from 1787 to 1792, was born in…
Pedro Joseph Piernas, the first Spanish lieutenant governor in St. Louis, occupied that…
![Peter Rindisbacher, portrait by George Markham. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 1985-101-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-06/1.%20Peter%20Rindisbacher.jpg?h=e326f017&itok=qbsrCHhJ "Peter Rindisbacher, portrait by George Markham. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Objects Collection, 1985-101-0001]")
Peter Rindisbacher’s paintings and watercolors are among the earliest images of the…
![This eighteenth-century map shows the mouth of the River Des Peres (unnamed, below St. Louis) and the Kaskaskia village to the south on the opposite side of the Mississippi, where the River Des Peres mission resettled after abandoning the site in what is now south St. Louis. [Frederick Charles Hicks, ed., A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20River%20Des%20Peres.jpg?h=eb73c7be&itok=AwSYZpcO "This eighteenth-century map shows the mouth of the River Des Peres (unnamed, below St. Louis) and the Kaskaskia village to the south on the opposite side of the Mississippi, where the River Des Peres mission resettled after abandoning the site in what is now south St. Louis. [Frederick Charles Hicks, ed., A Topographical Description of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina, 1778]")
More than half a century before the founding of St. Louis, French priests established a…
![Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Joseph_Robidoux.jpg?h=8367ab58&itok=FkZ-VAhs "Joseph Robidoux. [State Historical Society of Missouri Image Collections]")
Joseph Robidoux III, the eldest son of a large family, was born in St. Louis on August 10,…
![Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Ferdinand-Rozier.jpg?h=fbd899b5&itok=vyvUpIp6 "Ferdinand Rozier. [Mary Rozier Sharp, Between the Gabouri, 1981]")
Ferdinand Rozier was an early resident of historic Ste. Genevieve and…
Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in…
![A view of the upper Missouri River by Karl Bodmer, circa 1830s. Print by Charles Vogel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0047]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20William%20Sublette.jpg?h=618cae78&itok=l2w5KTpm "A view of the upper Missouri River by Karl Bodmer, circa 1830s. Print by Charles Vogel. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1958.0047]")
William Lewis Sublette was born at Stanford, Kentucky, on September 21, 1799. The family…
![Marianne Billeron Vallé’s signature on a baptismal record in 1768. She signed as the godmother to Marie-Louise, the daughter of an enslaved Native American woman. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Parish Records, C3040]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-12/marianne-signature.jpg?h=a2d61f04&itok=bibb_dHf "Marianne Billeron Vallé’s signature on a baptismal record in 1768. She signed as the godmother to Marie-Louise, the daughter of an enslaved Native American woman. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ste. Genevieve Parish Records, C3040]")
Marianne Billeron Vallé was born in Kaskaskia around 1729, the daughter of…
The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was…