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L. A. Benoist, 1848. Louis Auguste Benoist (1803–1867) was an American pioneer banker and financier.. He was born August 13, 1803, in St. Louis, Missouri, then a French settlement in Louisiana, and soon to become a possession of the United States under the Louisiana Purchase.
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]
The first Lodge in Missouri was created by residents of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.The charter was issued on November 14, 1807 on a warrant from the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for the Louisiana Lodge No. 109, to be held in St. Genevieve, Territory of Louisiana with the following officers: Aaron Elliott, Master; Andrew Henry, Senior Warden; and George Bullitt, Junior Warden.
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.
Brookfield, Missouri Caroline L. Smith August 1836 Kirtland, Ohio January 9, 1878 Fort Worth, Texas Marriage to Roxie R. Grant on May 19, 1847 in Knox, Illinois: Roxie R. Grant March 16, 1825 Naples, New York March 30, 1900 Lathrop, Missouri Children: Thalia Grant Smith September 21, 1848 Altonia, Illinois November 27, 1924 Independence, Missouri
While "St. Louis, with its French ancestry, has been noted as a fur capital, more money passed through St. Louis as a result of the lead business in Missouri than did because of the fur business", wrote Doe Run Company CEO Jeffry Zelm. [16] The oldest St. Louis-based lead family is Desloge. [17]
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 ...
The Queen's Daughters is a religious and charitable society founded in St. Louis in 1889 to supplement the work done for the poor by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Several non-Christian faiths call St. Louis home as well. Hindu Temple of St. Louis is the largest Hindu temple in Missouri.