the State Historical Society of Missouri
Born on July 9, 1808, in Mason County, Kentucky, Alexander William Doniphan was the son of…
![James Eads. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0004-1016]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-06/1.%20James%20B.%20Eads.jpg?h=ff10fb74&itok=eL4n5_kH "James Eads. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, P0004-1016]")
Born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on May 23, 1820, James Buchanan Eads became an engineer of…
Daniel Marsh Frost, a Confederate army officer, was born on August 9, 1823, in Mariaville,…
![Carte-de-viste of Hamilton Rowan Gamble. [US National Park Service, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, WICR 11505]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-10/1.-hamilton-gamble.jpg?h=2fb71d81&itok=51aoXoVC "Carte-de-viste of Hamilton Rowan Gamble. [US National Park Service, Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, WICR 11505]")
Born on November 29, 1798, Hamilton R. Gamble was the youngest son of Joseph and Anne…
![Claiborne Fox Jackson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N21069]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Claiborne%20Fox%20Jackson.jpg?h=8ea2713e&itok=ZPN0hAT_ "Claiborne Fox Jackson. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, N21069]")
Claiborne Fox Jackson was born in rural Fleming County, in northeastern Kentucky, on April 4, 1806. The son…
![Guerrillas in 1864. [Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-138113]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2026-09/guerrilla-depredations-1864-harpers-weekly-lc-usz62-138113_0.jpg?itok=XhJg95_T "Guerrillas in 1864. [Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-138113]")
Born around 1839 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, James Jackson, more commonly known as Jim Jackson, came of age…
![Stephen Watts Kearny. [Engraving by Y. B. Welch for Graham’s Magazine, from an original daguerreotype by Peter A. Juley & Son, photographers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Stephen_Watts_Kearny.jpg?h=cf6f823a&itok=U41HI4sO "Stephen Watts Kearny. [Engraving by Y. B. Welch for Graham’s Magazine, from an original daguerreotype by Peter A. Juley & Son, photographers. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California Faces: Selections from the Bancroft Library Portrait Collection]")
Stephen Watts Kearny was born on August 30, 1794, in Newark, New Jersey. He was the…
![Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_N_Kinney.jpg?h=b52d3aca&itok=IzJ8gtIa "Nathaniel N. Kinney. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Rolla Research Center, William L. Vandeventer Papers (R1428)]")
Nathaniel “Nat” N. Kinney has a popular image as a romantic, violent, swashbuckling…
![An artist’s depiction of Fort San Carlos. Constructed under orders from Fernando de Leyba, it played a crucial role in stopping the British attack on St. Louis in 1780. [Walter B. Stevens, ed., History of St. Louis the Fourth City, 1764–1909, vol. 1 (1909)]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Fernando_de_Lebya.jpg?h=e98014da&itok=NUd_VvtK "An artist’s depiction of Fort San Carlos. Constructed under orders from Fernando de Leyba, it played a crucial role in stopping the British attack on St. Louis in 1780. [Walter B. Stevens, ed., History of St. Louis the Fourth City, 1764–1909, vol. 1 (1909)]")
Controversy swirled around Upper Louisiana’s third lieutenant governor in life and in death…
![Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nathaniel_Lyon.jpg?h=c90d5ca1&itok=40YCdnKd "Nathaniel Lyon. Engraving by John A. O’Neill. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 15613]")
Nathaniel Lyon, a US Army officer from 1841 to 1861, was born in rural Ashford (later…