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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Ar ddydd Llun, Tachwedd 13, 2023, Cyflawnais nod mawr pan gerddais ar hyd Llwybr Chubb cyfan, allan ac yn ôl 13.6 llwybr milltir yn West St. Louis County. Cymerodd y daith gerdded saith awr a thri deg munud i mi ei chwblhau. Pan oedd fy mab hynaf “Trey” yn cwblhau gofynion y Fedal Aur o Gyflawniad yn Royal Rangers, cyfatebol
Fy hen daid Parker L. Priododd Zimmerman dair gwaith. Ar ôl cwpl o fisoedd priodas â Victoria Harris yn ystod 1897 yn Sir Franklin, Missouri, Symudodd Parker i Bollinger County, Missouri i fod yn nes at ei deulu. Ei rieni, Samuel a Sarah Zimmerman, yn byw yn Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. Ar Fawrth 31, 1902, 27-priododd Parker ei ail wraig, 22-Mellie Bollinger oed.
Ar ddydd Sadwrn, Ebrill 9, 2022, gwahoddodd Cymdeithas Hanes Sir Franklin Sir Missouri fi i roi cyflwyniad PowerPoint ar Lladrad Banc Undeb Missouri o 1902. Mae'r llyfr yn ymdrin â'r lladrad, yr ymchwiliad, dwy helfa genedlaethol i'r ffo a thoriad beiddgar oddi wrth y St. Louis City Jail. Dau leidr beiddgar, not yet 23 mlwydd oed, tynnu i ffwrdd
Ganed Tom Allen yn Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 ond daeth yn enwog fel gwobr ymladdwr migwrn noeth pwysau trwm yn America. Ymsefydlu yn St. Louis around 1867, Enillodd Allen Bencampwriaeth Pwysau Trwm America yn 1873 a daliodd y teitl hyd 1876. Dychwelodd i Loegr am flwyddyn cyn dychwelyd i St. Louis am dda i mewn 1878. Back
Ar ddydd Mawrth, Gorffennaf 4, 1916, former St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond passed away after an illness of two years. Desmond was in Alexian Brothers Hospital from October 1915 until his death on Independence Day 1916. The 59-year-old Desmond left a 12-year-old son, William Desmond, Jr. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
Ar Ragfyr 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
On August 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 a.m. Three figures exited the train. Two healthy looking police officers were escorting John D. “Jack” Shea, who killed St. Louis Police Officer Patrick Doran on November 7, 1881. The gaunt and sickly Shea was no longer the young thug, who executed Doran during a chase after
On a chilly night, Ionawr 9, 1915, Sgt. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Sgt. Gibbons walked towards the Wabash Railroad’s Delmar Station, which was in complete darkness. Gibbons kneeled and wrapped his nightstick on the platform to signal any nearby beat officers to report to him. Patrolman Arthur J. Saxy heard the night
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, yr St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 blynyddoedd. They replaced him with Desmond’s ex-assistant James Smith, who was dismissed by the previous board. How did one of the greatest, if not the greatest, detectives in
Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Adran Heddlu Louis. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready