Historiador de deportes de combate y artista marcial
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Misuri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
El lunes, Noviembre 13, 2023, I achieved a major goal when I hiked the entire length of Chubb Trail, an out-and-back 13.6 mile trail in West St. Louis County. The hike took me seven hours and thirty minutes to complete. When my oldest son “Trey” was completing the requirements for the Gold Medal of Achievement in Royal Rangers, equivalent
Mi bisabuelo Parker L.. Zimmerman se casó tres veces. Después de un par de meses de matrimonio con Victoria Harris durante 1897 en el condado de franklin, Misuri, Parker se mudó al condado de Bollinger, Missouri estará más cerca de su familia. sus padres, Samuel y Sara Zimmerman, vivió en Dongola, bollinger, Misuri. En marzo de 31, 1902, 27-Parker, de un año, se casó con su segunda esposa., 22-Mellie Bollinger, de un año.
El sábado, Abril 9, 2022, la Sociedad Histórica de Missouri del condado de Franklin me invitó a dar una presentación de PowerPoint sobre el robo del banco Union Missouri Bank de 1902. El libro cubre el robo., la investigación, dos cacerías en todo el país del fugitivo y una escapada audaz del St.. Louis City Jail. Dos ladrones atrevidos, not yet 23 years of age, sacado
Tom Allen nació en Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 pero se hizo famoso como boxeador de peso pesado a puño limpio en Estados Unidos.. Instalarse en St.. Louis around 1867, Allen ganó el Campeonato Americano de Peso Pesado en 1873 y mantuvo el título hasta 1876. Regresó a Inglaterra durante un año antes de regresar a St.. Louis para siempre en 1878. Back
El martes, Julio 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. Para 17 years from 1890
En diciembre 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,
En agosto 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, Enero 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, el St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 año. 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. Departamento de Policía de 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