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…
Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14, 1792, Lilburn W. Boggs became one of the most…
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…
Born near Georgetown, Kentucky, on September 11, 1833, to Quaker parents the Reverend…
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…