Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Lundi, Novembre 13, 2023, J'ai atteint un objectif majeur en parcourant toute la longueur du sentier Chubb., an out-and-back 13.6 mile trail in West St. Louis County. La randonnée m'a pris sept heures et trente minutes. Lorsque mon fils aîné, « Trey », remplissait les conditions requises pour la médaille d'or de la réussite des Royal Rangers., equivalent
Mon arrière-grand-père Parker L.. Zimmerman s'est marié trois fois. Après quelques mois de mariage avec Victoria Harris pendant 1897 dans le comté de Franklin, Missouri, Parker a déménagé dans le comté de Bollinger, Le Missouri veut se rapprocher de sa famille. Ses parents, Samuel et Sarah Zimmerman, vivait à Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. Sur Mars 31, 1902, 27-Parker, âgé d'un an, a épousé sa deuxième femme, 22-Mellie Bollinger, 1 an.
Le samedi, Avril 9, 2022, the Franklin County Missouri Historical Society invited me to give a PowerPoint presentation on the Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. The book covers the robbery, the investigation, two nationwide hunts for the fugitive and a daring break from the St. Louis City Jail. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 ans, pulled off
Tom Allen est né à Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 mais il est devenu célèbre en tant que boxeur poids lourd aux mains nues en Amérique. S'installer à St. Louis around 1867, Allen a remporté le championnat américain des poids lourds en 1873 et détenait le titre jusqu'à 1876. Il est retourné en Angleterre pendant un an avant de retourner à St. Louis pour de bon dans 1878. Back
Mardi, Juillet 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
Sur Décembre 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. Les hommes ont pris $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
Sur Août 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, Janvier 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, Saint-. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ans. 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