These biographical and historical sketches are highlights of Missouri history. Many sketches are from Missouri, Day by Day , published by the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1942. Links are to related primary sources at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection on the four campuses of the University of Missouri system.
Previous sketches are also available.
R. Hayden Born Peyton R. Hayden was a pioneer lawyer of Boonville and the first attorney admitted to the Cooper county bar. Hamilton R. Gamble, later governor of Missouri, Abiel Leonard, George Tompkins, John F. Ryland, all future judges of the Supreme Court of Missouri, and Duff Green, were his associates. Although Hayden had received only a common school education, few if any excelled him in his knowledge of law. Here he recorded a synopsis of every case in which he was retained with the authorities on which he relied. Hayden was born near Paris, Kentucky, February 8, 1796.