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2. John Berry Meachum - Wikipedia

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   [1] [20] He owned two riverboats and operated a barrel-making factory, which was staffed by escaped slaves, [21] who saved up their earnings. Meachum and his wife purchased the freedom of around 20 slaves between 1826 and 1836. [21] [22] Nearly every person that the Meachum's freed paid them back, which provided the money to free others. [1]

3. Missouri Historical Society - Wikipedia

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   This building was intended to store the archives of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, the collection of the Missouri Historical Society, and historical artifacts associated with the territory the U.S. acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The Missouri Historical Society was founded in St. Louis on August 11, 1866. [1]

4. Desloge family - Wikipedia

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   The Desloge family, (/ d ə ˈ l oʊ ʒ /) [1] centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis, [2] rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land ...

5. Robert J. Behnen - Wikipedia

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   Robert J. Behnen (born May 8, 1966) is a genealogist [citation needed] and a former Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He currently resides with his wife, Michele McGuire, and their two children, John and Joseph, in Kirksville, Missouri. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Lindbergh High School.

6. History of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   [193] [194] St. Louis produced several notable soldiers in the war, including Edward O'Hare, who grew up in St. Louis and won the Medal of Honor for combat in the Pacific. [195] St. Louis also was home to Wendell O. Pruitt , an African-American pilot who shot down three enemy aircraft and destroyed multiple ground targets in June 1944.

7. Chouteau - Wikipedia

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   Chouteau Bridge across the Missouri River in Kansas City; Chouteau's Landing in St. Louis; Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis; The family sold the Chouteau posts along the upper Missouri River in 1865 after the American Civil War to Americans James B. Hubbell, Alpheus F. Hawley, James A. Smith, C. Francis Bates. Hubbell, based in Minnesota, already ...