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[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Joseph Charless 1772–1834 Newspaper Editor" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632835625889{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632835647988{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Joseph Charless fled to America in 1795 after participating in the Irish Rebellion. He arrived in St. Louis in 1808 and established the Missouri Gazette,…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Samuel Cupples 1831–1912 Businessman" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632491463582{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632491484421{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Samuel Cupples (1831-1912) arrived in St. Louis in 1851 and established himself in the woodenware business. Along with his partner, Robert S. Brookings, Cupples later saw…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="John J. Mitchell 1813–1903 Transportation Leader" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632835466755{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632835482670{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]The Eads Bridge, completed in 1874, was the engineering feat of the century and the first bridge of steel construction to span the Mississippi…...

[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="David Rowland Francis 1850–1927 Political Dignitary" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632839026304{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632839053568{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]As a young man, he came to St. Louis from Kentucky and was one of the early graduates of Washington University. He was elected…...