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99 unusual facts about Missouri


1973 Winchester 400

When Dave Wall of Kansas City, Missouri, failed to show for qualifying, Schrock hopped in the car and turned in the seventh-fastest time of the 89 cars that would attempt to qualify.

Abraham Jefferson Seay

He would spend years reading law materials at irregular intervals until in August, 1860, Seay moved to Cherryville, Missouri where he entered a law office.

Albert D. Nortoni

Nortoni married twice, first in 1892 to Maggie Lina of Bevier, Missouri, and again in 1906 to Emma Belcher of Boone County, Missouri.

Alexander Caldwell

Caldwell died in Kansas City, Missouri in 1917, and is interred at Mount Muncie Cemetery in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Amity, Arkansas

The Bean Lumber Company would later open mills in Glenwood, and in Buckner, Missouri.

Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed

It was founded by members of the Columbia Anarchist League of Columbia, Missouri, and continued to be published there for nearly fifteen years, eventually under the sole editorial control of Jason McQuinn (who initially used the pseudonym "Lev Chernyi"), before briefly moving to New York City in 1995 to be published by members of the Autonomedia collective.

Antonio A. Feliz

In the early 1980s, Feliz was employed at Park College in Parkville, Missouri, which at the time was affiliated with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ).

Armstrong Teasdale

Armstrong Teasdale LLP, is a law firm based in Clayton, Missouri.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Missouri State Militia commanders and Union Volunteers began to converge on Joseph C. Porter’s recruiters and associated guerrillas, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19, Florida on July 22, and Santa Fe on July 24.

Bible Grove Consolidated District No. 5 School

Bible Grove Consolidated District #5 School (also known as Bible Grove School) is a historic school on the south side of Route T. at Bible Grove, Missouri.

Bill Stouffer

Stouffer and his wife, Sue Ellen, currently live on their family farm in Saline County, Napton, Missouri, where Stouffer has been an active farmer since 1967.

Blaise Daniel Staples

This article is not about Danny Staples (1935-2003), former Shannon County, Missouri state senator

Brian Munzlinger

Munzlinger, a third-generation Missouri farmer, his wife, Michele and their two children reside on their farm near Williamstown, Missouri.

Brother Phelps

They were raised in the Missouri Bootheel and Doug graduated from a small school named Southland located in Cardwell, Missouri.

Brutus Hamilton

Hamilton was born on July 19, 1900 in Peculiar, Missouri, and in Missouri he grew up as a farm boy whose parents' property was next door to the Harry S. Truman family farm.

Cameron, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri was able to convince the railroad to bypass its rivals in St. Joseph, Leavenworth, Kansas, Atchison, Kansas and Parkville, Missouri to create the "Cameron Branch" of the railroad.

Chris Burnett

He was also one of the principal artist/educators featured at the First Annual Jazz Education Forum and Jazz Festival in 1998, which was held in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri

Cinque Hommes covers an area of 55.5 square miles (143.7km2) and contains one incorporated village (Biehle), and three unincorporated communities: Highland, Millheim, and Schumer Springs.

Clint Tracy

Tracy represents Missouri's 158th Legislative District, which consists of most of the city of Cape Girardeau.

Clyde A. Vaughn

#January 1978 - February 1979, Reconnaissance Officer, Headquarters Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cole McNary

Cole McNary is the son of Gene McNary, the former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Executive Director of the Missouri Gaming Commission, and County Executive of St. Louis County.

Courtney McCool

Courtney Lynn McCool (born April 1, 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American gymnast, who was a team member in the 2004 Summer Olympics women's artistic gymnastic team.

McCool was coached by Al and Armine Fong of Great American Gymnastic Express in Kansas City, Missouri.

District of Louisiana

At this time, the District was further divided into five administrative divisions: New Madrid, Cape Girardeau, Ste. Genevieve, St. Charles, and St. Louis.

Dixon, Missouri

Route 133 runs north from Interstate 44 exit 145 about two miles east of Hazelgreen to Richland, Swedeborg, Crocker, and about two miles west of Dixon, then north out of the county.

Dongola, Missouri

Dongola is an unincorporated community in the southern part of Liberty Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, and is located 7 miles south of Leopold.

Edward Hibberd Johnson

Under General Palmer's direction the Kansas Pacific was extended from Kansas City, Missouri, reaching Denver, Colorado in August 1870.

Egbert B. Brown

Among the high points of his career were two victories over Joseph Shelby, at the Second Battle of Springfield during Marmaduke's first raid, and at Marshall, Missouri, during Shelby's Great Raid of 1863.

Ferdinand Helias

In course of time, he organized congregations and built churches in Rich Fountain in the same county, in St. Thomas and Jefferson City, in Toas, in Booneville, Cooper County, and in several other places.

Freddie Sweetan

In part to an agreement with Sweetan and Leo Burke, Prosser and Sweetan( being the same person) began wrestling in the Kansas City-area as Killer Kox and K.O. Kox with Bob Geigel's NWA Central States.

Frisco 1352

After its removal from Swope Park, Smoky Hill Railway and Historical Society kept the 1352 in an industrial park in Riverside, Missouri, where it suffered flooding on at least one occasion.

Georg Lurich

Lurich wrestled American world wrestling champion and title holder Frank Gotch in Kansas City in 1913, but lost what would be Gotch's final match.

Goodland, Missouri

It formerly had a post office, but that has closed and its mail now comes from Belleview.

Heartland virus

The Heartland virus is a novel, tick-borne phlebovirus discovered in northwestern Missouri by Dr. Scott Folk of Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Higbee

Higbee, Missouri, a city in Randolph County, Missouri, in the United States

Hocomo, Missouri

It once had a post office, but its mail now comes from Caulfield.

Honey War

In the Treaty of Fort Clark, the Osage had ceded all land east of Fort Clark near Sibley, Missouri.

Isaac Morley

The citizens were taken by the Missouri militia to Richmond, Ray county, to await trial.

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

John V. Cox

John Cox, son of coal miner Norris Cox and wife Ruth, was born and raised in Bevier, Macon County, Missouri along with older brother Lynn and sisters Josephine and Nancy.

Josef Spudich

He taught and coached in Sikeston, Missouri, Cairo and El Dorado Springs; then starting in 1942, at Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois, where he was head football coach from 1951–1954.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1950 after 12 years in the Army Joe came back home to Warsaw and married his high school sweetheart Dolly Johnson on March 3, 1950.

In 1999 his father George Williams died at the age of 99 in Kansas City, Missouri and on December 31, 2006 his mother Jenny Williams died at the age of 105 in Warsaw, Missouri.

After 40 years in the country music business Joe retired to his family farm in Warsaw with his wife Dolly in 1990 where he is a hometown hero.

Joseph J. Kinyoun

The family moved to Johnson County, Missouri, in 1866, where the elder Kinyoun was a physician.

KCAH

KCAH-LP, a low-power radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Carthage, Missouri, United States

KCDIY

KCDIY is also the name of a music compilation featuring punk and hardcore bands from the Kansas City area such as Anxiety Attack, Crap Corps, Dick Cheney's Dick, The Hospital, Alert!

Knob Lick

Knob Lick, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Saint Francois County, Missouri

Ladell Betts

He and his mother moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to the suburb of Blue Springs when Betts was a child, but he remained very close to his father who has always been an active influence on Ladell over the years.

LaMark Brown

Brown started all four years at Hazelwood West High School in Hazelwood, Missouri at free safety and running back and was a two-time consensus Class 6 all-state performer by the Missouri Coaches Association, the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association and the Kansas City Star.

Lillian Berlin

In 2003, after a concert in Kansas City, Lillian was stabbed after a show because of his opinion on the events of 9/11.

Lindenwood Women's Ice Hockey

The women’s team currently plays out of Lindenwood University’s Ice Hockey Arena, which is located in Wentzville, Missouri.

Lorance Township, Bollinger County, Missouri

The township contains two incorporated settlements: Glen Allen and Marble Hill.

Louis Lorimier

Lorimier is also responsible for the founding of at least two Missouri counties: Cape Girardeau County, and Bollinger County, the next county to the west.

Marquis James

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – November 19, 1955) was an American journalist and author, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

Marthasville, Missouri

Because of the many wineries from here east to Defiance, Marthasville is considered to mark one end of the "Missouri Weinstrasse".

Maryville University

Maryville University of St. Louis is a private, coeducational university located in the city of Town and Country, Missouri, United States.

May 26–31, 2013 tornado outbreak

The tornado continued causing damage in residential areas before crossing the Missouri River into St. Louis County and Earth City, Bridgeton, and the northern side of Maryland Heights as it moved along Interstate 70 near its intersection with Interstate 270.

McCredie

McCredie Township, Callaway County, Missouri, one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA

Michael J. Devlin

He had disappeared on October 6, 2002, at age 11 while riding his bike to a friend's house in Richwoods, Missouri.

Michelle Loughery

She has been instrumental in beginning world class mural projects in Cuba, Missouri, USA; Vernon, British Columbia and continues to work in the Country Music Capital of Canada, Merritt, British Columbia.

Micronesian American

Micronesians are also increasing rapidly in other places of the U.S. such as in Kansas City, Missouri, where the majority of the Micronesians are of Pohnpeian origin.

Mitchell F. Jayne

Turning his talents to other venues, Jayne authored a weekly column in the Shannon County Wave, in his adopted Ozark hometown of Eminence, Missouri.

Mount Horeb Baptist Church

Mount Horeb Baptist Church is a historic church in Mineola, Missouri.

Mount Sterling, Iowa

Mount Sterling was first settled in the late 1830s when George and Horace Wood established a sawmill and corn-cracker to serve the small farms of southern Van Buren County and the northern portion of nearby Scotland County, Missouri.

Novinger, Missouri

Novinger is a town in Nineveh Township, Adair County, Missouri, United States.

Onie Wheeler

Wheeler was born in Senath, Missouri, and learned to play guitar and harmonica as a child.

Paul Carpenter Standley

Paul Carpenter Standley (1884 in Avalon, Missouri – June 2, 1963 Tegucigalpa, Honduras) was an American botanist.

Ralph Sutton

Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri.

Rick Blubaugh

Rick Brian Blubaugh (born December 28, 1964, Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri) is an American former professional soccer player.

Rick Gorzynski

Rick Gorzynski was the fourth head football coach for the Lindenwood University Lions located in St. Charles, Missouri and he held that position for three seasons, from 2001 until 2003.

River City Casino

Located in Lemay, Missouri, River City Casino is on the western bank of the Mississippi River.

Riverport Riot

The Riverport Riot was a riot at the Riverport Amphitheater (now named Verizon Wireless Amphitheater St. Louis) in Maryland Heights, Missouri (near St. Louis) at a Guns N' Roses concert on July 2, 1991.

Robert A. Holekamp

By the time of Holekamp’s death, Holekamp Lumber operated six lumberyards (St. Louis, Maplewood, Affton, Webster Groves, Kirkwood, and Gray Summit), and the company would remain in business until the mid-1980s.

Robert Joseph Hermann

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Hermann represented the Archbishop in overseeing the parishes in five deaneries: Northeast St. Louis County, Northwest St. Louis County, Festus, St. Charles County and Washington.

Rocky Ridge

Rocky Ridge, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Sainte Genevieve County

Samuel Orace Dunn

He learned the printing trade after graduating from high school, was editor of the Quitman, (Mo.) Record (1895–96) and associate editor of the Maryville, (Mo.) Tribune (1896–1900); from 1900 to 1904 was a reporter, and later editorial writer, on the Kansas City Journal, and in 1904-07 was connected with the Chicago Tribune as railroad editor and editorial writer.

Samuel P. Cox

Frank was not tried for the bank murder however he was tried in 1883 in Gallatin for an 1881 murder of a Rock Island Railroad employee at nearby Winston, Missouri.

Scott Touzinsky

Touzinsky attended St. John Vianney High School in Kirkwood, Missouri, where he graduated in 2000.

Shirley Collie Nelson

Born in Chillicothe, Missouri to Alice (née Davis) and Henry Simpson, she sang at local war bond rallies during World War II as a child, and made a guest appearance on KFEQ-AM in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Sidney D. Jackman

Soon after getting married Jackman moved his family to Howard County, Missouri, and in 1855 they settled in Papinville, located in Bates County.

By late in the 1840s he was living in Boone County, Missouri, where he look up work as a schoolteacher as well as farming.

Silver Lake, Missouri

Silver Lake is an unincorporated settlement in Saint Mary's Township in Perry County, Missouri.

Smith W. Brookhart

Brookhart was born in a cabin on a farm in Scotland County, Missouri, the son of Abram C. and Cynthia Wildman Brookhart.

Spaceway F2

SPACEWAY-2 immediately started broadcasting HD locals to DirecTV customers in eight more markets: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sacramento and San Diego, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Nashville, Tennessee; Kansas City, Missouri.

St. Charles County, Missouri

It is mostly a six-lane freeway throughout most of the county but there are sections in St. Charles and St. Peters where the Interstate widens to 11 lanes of traffic.

Stephen T. McClard

Stephen T. McClard (born September 18, 1967 in Farmington, Missouri) Band Director, Furniture Designer, Professional Musician, 3rd Generation Piano Technician, Luthier and Author of the book, The Superior Educator: A Calm and Assertive Approach to Classroom Management and Large Group Motivation.

Swedeborg, Missouri

Route 17 crosses Interstate 44 at exit 153 at Buckhorn, runs east through Waynesville, turns north to Crocker, and then runs north out of the county to Iberia.

Tarkio

Tarkio, Missouri, a town on the Tarkio River in the northwest corner of Missouri

Theron C. Bennett

Born in Pierce City, Missouri, he graduated in 1902 from the school which is now New Mexico State University.

Times of Northeast Benton County

In addition to the city of Pea Ridge, the newspaper covers the communities of Little Flock to the south, Avoca and Brightwater to the southeast, Garfield, Lost Bridge and Gateway to the east, and historically — though intermittently in recent years — Jacket and Mountain to the north in Missouri.

Tony Twist

He also owned a chain of bars named Twister's Iron Bar Saloon, with locations in St. Charles and Ste. Genevieve Missouri.

Truman Reservoir

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, however, did relocate its main line between La Due and Clinton; the project included five miles of new track and a causeway/bridge combination over the lake.

United States v. Neil Scott Kramer

The pair drove to the Comfort Inn in Willow Springs, Missouri, where Kramer "plied the victim with illegal narcotics and then engaged in sexual intercourse with her."

Washington Missourian

The Washington Missourian is the Franklin County paper based in Washington, Missouri.

Watson, Missouri

Watson is a village in Nishnabotna Township, Atchison County, Missouri, United States.

William Thomas Carpenter

William Thomas 'Will Tom' Carpenter, born November 16, 1854 in Johnson County, Missouri, the youngest son of James and Cynthia (Johnson) Carpenter, was a legendary cowman who authored a book about his experiences.

William Wilson Hudson

He was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1808 and was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Alabama before moving to Columbia, Missouri in 1838.

Willis Ricketts

He graduated in 1950 from the School of Pharmacy at the College of the Ozarks, a Christian institution in Point Lookout, Missouri.


Bill Clay

Poplar Street Bridge St. Louis, Missouri renamed on October 7, 2013 Congressman William L. Clay Sr.

Brighton, Missouri

Brighton, Missouri is revealed to be the boyhood home of Sergeant Matthew Baker, the fictional protagionist in the 2007 Ubisoft Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 game, Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway.

Charles Binaggio

Born in Beaumont, Texas, Binaggio moved with his family to Kansas City, Missouri, at an early age.

Chase Daniel

Ironically, it was only after he had committed to Mizzou that Longhorn coach Mack Brown began to seriously look at Daniel but Daniel stuck to his oral commitment with Missouri.

Council of Conservative Citizens

The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina, declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

David A. De Armond

He was born in Blair County, Pennsylvania, attended Lycoming College and moved to Davenport, Iowa in 1866; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1867 and commenced practice in Davenport; moved to Missouri in 1869 and settled in Greenfield, Missouri, Dade County, Missouri.

David Hickman

David Henry Hickman (1821–1869), legislator and businessman from Columbia, Missouri

Douglas Eads Foster

He went to public schools in Warrensburg, then to Missouri State Teachers College and Washington School of Dentistry in St. Louis, Missouri.

Downtown Columbia Historic District

Downtown Columbia, Missouri, which includes a Downtown Columbia Historic District listed on the NRHP in Missouri

Edinburg, Missouri

A home of Thompson, for whom the Thompson Branch of the Grand River (Missouri) is named, is in nearby Crowder State Park.

Embassy of the United States, Oslo

The Embassy Chancery on Henrik Ibsens gate was designed by Finnish–American architect Eero Saarinen, who also designed the American Embassy in London and the Gateway Arch in Saint Louis, Missouri.

FC Kansas City

On December 12, 2012, FC Kansas City announced that Vlatko Andonovski, a former professional player and head coach of the Kansas City Kings of the PASL and Missouri Olympic Development Program (ODP), would be head coach of the team.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

French people in Nebraska

In 1824 Jean-Pierre Cabanné established Cabanne's Trading Post for John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company near Fort Lisa, at the confluence of Ponca Creek and the Missouri River.

Harrison E. Havens

He was born in Franklin County, Ohio and was the Republican Party Representative from Missouri for the 4th District in the 42nd United States Congress between 1871 and 1873, and for the 6th District in the 43rd United States Congress from 1873 to 1875.

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

John William Boone

The John William Boone Heritage Foundation was founded to preserve the history of Blind Boone and to elaborate the important role Missouri played in the development of Ragtime and early Jazz music.

Josh Outman

Outman pitched for Forest Park Community College in Saint Louis, before transferring to the University of Central Missouri (formerly Central Missouri State University).

Kape

KAPE, a radio station (1550 AM) licensed to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States.

KCRV

KCRV-FM, a radio station (105.1 FM) licensed to Caruthersville, Missouri, United States

KDKD

KDKD-FM, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to Clinton, Missouri, United States

KIIK

KOZQ-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, which held the call sign KIIK-FM from 2007 to 2011

KPTN

KPTN-LD, a low-power television station (channel 36) licensed to serve St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Lawrence County, Missouri

All of Lawrence County is a part of Missouri’s 29th District in the Missouri Senate and is currently represented by Jack Goodman (R-Mount Vernon.

Mac Tonnies

Tonnies grew up in Independence, Missouri, and attended William Chrisman High School and Ottawa University.

Marble Hill, Missouri

Marble Hill is a part of Missouri's 156th Legislative District and is currently represented by Shelley (White) Keeney (R-Marble Hill).

Mary Odilia Berger

The congregation, through SSM Health Care, today operates in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

Millsboro, Delaware

Thus, it is one of only three cities in the United States to record both its state's extreme temperatures, the others being Chester, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Missouri.

Mopac

The Mopac Expressway, State Highway Loop 1 in Austin, Texas, named after the Missouri Pacific railroad whose tracks bisect the expressway.

Nishnabotna Township, Atchison County, Missouri

Nishnabotna Township is probably best known outside the immediate region for a reference by the New Yorker cartoonist George Booth, a native of Missouri.

Patricia Breckenridge

Breckenridge was one of three candidates Missouri's Appellate Judicial Commission proposed to governor Matt Blunt to replace retiring Judge Ronnie White on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Peter Myers

Peter C. Myers (1931-2012), a US Missouri politician who was Deputy Secretary of Agriculture under Ronald Reagan

Ralston Purina

In 1977, Ralston Purina acquired Missouri Arena Corporation and the St. Louis Blues National Hockey League franchise.

Richard Berkley

Richard L. Berkley (born 1931), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 1979–1991

Rory Ellinger

He also served as University of Missouri - Columbia chapter president of the Students for a Democratic Society.

Russell Alexander

Russell Alexander (February 26, 1877 in Nevada City, Missouri – October 2, 1915 in New York City) was an entertainer and composer, active primarily with vaudeville shows and musical comedy organizations.

Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

In August 1867 the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River opened a branch from Missouri Valley Junction west to California Junction (sold to the Sioux City and Pacific in July 1871), where the Sioux City and Pacific, funded by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River, began constructing its line north through the Missouri River Valley, reaching Sioux City in February 1868.

St. Xavier's High School, Patna

The hardwork and the generosity of Missouri, Chicago and Detroit provinces, raised Patna mission soon to a vice-province and then in 1962, to an independent province.

The Wolf

WDAF-FM The Wolf, an American radio station in Kansas City, Missouri

Thomas B. Marsh

The town had been founded by the presidency of the Missouri Stake, consisting of David Whitmer, William Wines Phelps and John Whitmer.

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.

Thomas Halsey

Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863–1961), United States Representative from Missouri

United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit across Missouri in St. Louis has jurisdiction over decisions appealed from the Western District of Missouri (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

University of Missouri Graduate School

The University of Missouri Graduate School is one of the 19 academic schools and colleges of the University of Missouri.