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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
På mandag, November 13, 2023, Jeg nåede et stort mål, da jeg vandrede hele Chubb Trails længde, an out-and-back 13.6 mile trail in West St. Louis County. Vandreturen tog mig syv timer og tredive minutter at gennemføre. Da min ældste søn "Trey" var ved at opfylde kravene til Gold Medal of Achievement i Royal Rangers, equivalent
Min oldefar Parker L. Zimmerman giftede sig tre gange. Efter et par måneders ægteskab med Victoria Harris under 1897 i Franklin County, Missouri, Parker flyttede til Bollinger County, Missouri for at være tættere på sin familie. Hans forældre, Samuel og Sarah Zimmerman, boede i Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. På marts 31, 1902, 27-årige Parker giftede sig med sin anden kone, 22-årige Mellie Bollinger.
Lørdag, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society inviterede mig til at holde en PowerPoint-præsentation om Union Missouri Bank Robbery af 1902. Bogen dækker røveriet, undersøgelsen, to landsdækkende jagter på flygtningen og en vovet pause fra St. Louis City Jail. To vovede røvere, not yet 23 år, trukket af
Tom Allen blev født i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han blev berømt som en sværvægter bar kno priskæmper i Amerika. Bosætter sig i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vandt det amerikanske sværvægtsmesterskab i 1873 og holdt titlen indtil 1876. Han vendte tilbage til England i et år, før han vendte tilbage til St. Louis for godt i 1878. Back
På tirsdag, Juli 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
Den December 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. Mændene tog $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
Den August 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 a.m. Three figures exited the train. To sunde politifolk eskorterede 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, Januar 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 ord, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 år. 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. Louis Police Department. 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