Bonneville (1796–1876), French-born officer in the U.S. Army, fur trapper, and explorer in the American West James B. Bowlin (1804–1874), U.S. Representative of Missouri Henry Clay Brockmeyer (1826–1906), poet, politician, philosopher Robert S. Brookings (1850–1932), businessman and philanthropist, founder of the Brookings Institution, donor to Washington University in St. Louis Don Carlos Buell (1818–1898), U.S. Army general; led Union armies in the battles of Shiloh and Perryville William Seward Burroughs (1857–1898), inventor of the mechanical calculator and founder of Burroughs Corporation William S. Burroughs (1914–1997), author of novel Naked Lunch, icon of Beat Generation Adolphus Busch (1838–1913), founder of Anheuser Busch Company wife Lilly Eberhard Anheuser (d. 1928) Isidor Bush (1822–1898), intellectual, publisher, viticulturalist James Gay Butler (1840–1916), tobacco manufacturer, major supporter of Lindenwood University Given Campbell (1835–1906), Confederate officer who led the final escape of Jefferson Davis in the last days of the Civil War Robert Campbell (1804–1879), frontiersman, banker, real estate mogul, steamboat owner Virginia Kyle Campbell (1822–1882), socialite, wife of Robert Campbell William Chauvenet (1820–1870), scholar, educator William Clark (1770–1838), explorer of Louisiana Purchase territory Norman Jay Coleman (1827–1911), first United States Secretary of Agriculture Alban Jasper Conant (1821–1915), artist, author, educator; best known for his "Smiling Lincoln" portraits Phoebe Wilson Couzins (1842–1913), pioneer suffragette, one of the first female lawyers in the United States Ned Cuthbert (1845–1905), baseball player Forrest C. Donnell (1884–1980), U.S. Senator, 40th Governor of the State of Missouri James Eads (1820–1887), engineer who constructed bridges, railroads, and ironclad warships Albert Gallatin Edwards (1812–1892), Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President of the United States Abraham Lincoln and founder of brokerage firm A. G. Edwards Charles Henry Galloway (1871–1931), church and concert organist, conductor, and music educator William Greenleaf Eliot (1811–1887), Unitarian minister and civic leader George Engelmann (1809–1884), botanist Sarkis Erganian (1870–1950), Ottoman Armenian painter Bernard G. Farrar Jr. (1831–1916), Union Army colonel in the Civil War Thomas Clement Fletcher (1827–1899), 18th Governor of the State of Missouri, issued the proclamation abolishing slavery in the state Della May Fox (1870–1913), actress, singer David R. Francis (1850–1927), statesman, United States Secretary of the Interior, governor of Missouri, mayor of St. Louis, ambassador to Russia, president of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair Hamilton Rowan Gamble (1798–1864), 16th Governor of the State of Missouri during the Civil War, chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott Decision