the State Historical Society of Missouri
![French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly’s rendering of members of an Osage traveling party in Europe, including Big Soldier (at right). [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, object # S/NPG.2011.5]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Big-Soldier.jpg?itok=HPI9QCbX "French artist Louis-Leopold Boilly’s rendering of members of an Osage traveling party in Europe, including Big Soldier (at right). [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, object # S/NPG.2011.5]")
Big Soldier, a Little Osage war leader, was probably born in 1773 in a village near the…
Writer, suffragist, national Democratic Party political leader, and feminist, Emily Newell Blair was born in Joplin…
![Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/Lilburn-Boggs-Portrait.jpg?itok=UuUuc_L_ "Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]")
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
![Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/William-Clark-portrait-by-Peale.jpg?itok=0Eite8jK "Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]")
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis …
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…
Perl D. Decker was an attorney who served three terms from 1913 to 1919 as a US congressman from Jasper County,…
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
![William Henry Hatch. [University Archives, University of Missouri, collection C:3/25/28]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-06/William-Henry-Hatch_0.jpg?itok=ZHqTFZio "William Henry Hatch. [University Archives, University of Missouri, collection C:3/25/28]")
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, on September 11, 1833, to Quaker parents the Reverend…
![Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2020-07/Edward-Hempstead.jpg?itok=OQ2N2erA "Edward Hempstead. [Louis Houck, A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union, vol. 3 (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1908), p. 2]")
Edward Hempstead, a prominent early Missouri attorney and politician, was born in New…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…