the State Historical Society of Missouri
The Battle of Wilson’s Creek or Oak Hills in southwestern Greene County on August 10, 1861, is Missouri’s best-…
![Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-07/Daniel-Bissell.jpg?h=a09a8e46&itok=sWzc640r "Daniel Bissell. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, Portraits, N38584]")
The builder and commandant of Fort Bellefontaine, General Daniel Bissell served with…
![Lilburn Boggs. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N11644]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/Lilburn-Boggs-Portrait.jpg?h=9196c627&itok=RNkG0lH8 "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…
![Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38643]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Benjamin%20Louis%20Eulalie%20de%20Bonneville.jpg?h=ddb83cf7&itok=c3bPaqAY "Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N38643]")
Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville was born in Paris, France, in 1796. His father, a…
![Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Nathan%20Boone.jpg?h=4253ce28&itok=IjWRbAYP "Nathan Boone. The date of the photo is unknown. [State Historical Society of Missouri, R. L. Hosman Collection (P0925)]")
Nathan Boone, the youngest child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born on March 2, 1781, at Boone’s…
Anna Lansing Clapp, president of the Ladies’ Union Aid Society (LUAS) of St. Louis, was born on August 28, 1814, at…
Adaline Weston Couzins, a volunteer nursing escort and relief worker during the Civil War, was born in Brighton,…
![Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Francisco%20Cruzat.jpg?h=c5468509&itok=axq6uBu4 "Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]")
Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that…
![Samuel Ryan Curtis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James C. Joplin Photograph Collection, P0850-20239]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Samuel%20Ryan%20Curtis.jpg?h=450002ec&itok=0582yCuY "Samuel Ryan Curtis. [State Historical Society of Missouri, James C. Joplin Photograph Collection, P0850-20239]")
Samuel Ryan Curtis figured largely in Missouri’s Civil War history from August 1861 through…
![1. This watercolor portrait of Henry Dodge was painted by George Catlin during the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition of 1834. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1962-192-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20Henry%20Dodge.jpg?h=300a9ea0&itok=b4wr44H6 "1. This watercolor portrait of Henry Dodge was painted by George Catlin during the Dodge-Leavenworth Expedition of 1834. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1962-192-0001]")
Henry Dodge served his nation in a long and prosperous life on the nineteenth-century…