the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Henry%20Conrad%20Brokmeyer.jpg?h=00a5b231&itok=wKNu9a76 "Henry Conrad Brokmeyer. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mit Feder Und Hammer! (With Feather and Hammer!): The German Experience in Missouri Collection (S941)]")
Henry Conrad Brokmeyer, a “mechanic,” self-taught philosopher, and politician, was the…
![Louis William DuBourg. [Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, DC]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Louis_William_Dubourg.jpg?h=8feb261c&itok=WJ_eksKM "Louis William DuBourg. [Georgetown University Archives, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, DC]")
William DuBourg was a formidable force for Catholicism and for education in the early republican period of…
Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French pioneer missionary on the American frontier, was born on…
![Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2025-12/1.-father-dunne.jpg?h=8595de87&itok=GpoLkFFp "Father Peter Joseph Dunne. [Rev. J. W. Gormley, History of Father Dunne’s News Boys Home and Protectorate]")
Fighting Father Dunne, an RKO film, premiered in St. Louis on May 11, 1948. The black-…
Born on September 10, 1835, in North Killington, Connecticut, William Torrey Harris was a…
![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…
![Kathryn J. Kuhlman. [Courtesy of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Kathryn_Kuhlman.jpg?h=71eec0dc&itok=gcLwm7Sd "Kathryn J. Kuhlman. [Courtesy of the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Archives]")
Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman, born in Concordia, Missouri, on May 9, 1907, became…
![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…