Timeline of Missouri History: 1880-1889
| 1881 | Governor Thomas Crittenden offered a $5000 reward for the arrest and conviction of members of the Jesse James gang (Jul. 28) | |
| 1882 | Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford in St. Joseph (Apr. 3) |  Wainwright Building St. Louis, Mo. |
| 1891 | St. Louis’ Wainwright Building, one of America’s first skyscrapers, was designed by Louis Sullivan | |
| 1894 | The American School of Osteopathy was incorporated by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in Kirksville (Oct. 30) | |
| 1898 | Volunteers for the Spanish-American War began arriving in St. Louis (May 4) | |
| 1899 | The State Historical Society of Missouri was incorporated in Columbia (Mar. 9) | |
| 1899 | Scott Joplin's "The Maple Leaf Rag" was published in Sedalia, Missouri | |