Missouri Biography

Online Resources

 * County and Town Histories Missouri with biographies
 * Access Genealogy Missouri Biographies.
 * Missouri History Encyclopedia, 1901, ($), index
 * Missouri History, 1908, ($), index/images
 * A history of Missouri : from the earliest explorations and settlements until the admission of the state into the Union, ($), index/images
 * Missouri Biographical Dictionary, ($), index/images
 * Central Missouri Counties Biographies, ($), index
 * Missouri biographies by county, at My Genealogy Hound, index
 * Battles and biographies of Missourians, or, The Civil War period of our state, e-book

Introduction
Many of the archives of Missouri have collections of published biographical information. The public libraries in St. Louis and Kansas City also have good collections. Also search the biographical sections of statewide, regional, and county histories.


 * Central Missouri Counties Biographies at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Missouri Biographical Dictionary at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Historical and biographical sketches of the early churches and pioneer preachers of the Christian Church in Missouri at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand : the renowned Missouri "bushwhacker" and unconquerable Rob Roy of America : being his co at Ancestry.com ($)

Family History Library

 * Conrad, Howard Louis, Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, a Compendium of History and Biography for Ready Reference (New York, New York: Southern History Company, 1901) WorldCat; Digitized version for Volumes 1,2,3 and 6 are found at Internet Archive Some of the volumes are found at [www.books.google.com Google Books]


 * Christensen, Lawrence O. Dictionary of Missouri Biography (Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 1999) ; Some of the pages are digitized and included in a book preview found at Google Books


 * The Family History Library has a collection of biographies particular to Missouri. To access these, use the Place-names search in the FamilySearch Catalog for:


 * MISSOURI - BIOGRAPHY - PERSONAL NARRATIVES
 * MISSOURI,[COUNTY] - BIOGRAPHY
 * MISSOURI,[COUNTY],[TOWN] - BIOGRAPHY

Web Sites

 * Missouri Biographies at Access Genealogy
 * Missouri Family Biographies from numerous counties at My Genealogy Hound
 * USGenWeb.org Search county pages for Biographical references.
 * Historical and biographical sketches of the early churches and pioneer preachers of the Christian Church in Missouri at Ancestry.com ($)
 * Google Books
 * FamilySearch.org: Books, catalog, and microfilms.
 * Missouri Digital Heritage Online: http://www.sos.mo.gov/mdh/