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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
U ponedjeljak, Studeni 13, 2023, Postigao sam veliki cilj kada sam prepješačio cijelu dužinu Chubb Traila, an out-and-back 13.6 mile trail in West St. Louis županije. Za pješačenje mi je trebalo sedam sati i trideset minuta. Kad je moj najstariji sin "Trey" ispunjavao uvjete za Zlatnu medalju postignuća u Royal Rangersima, equivalent
Moj pradjed Parker L. Zimmerman se ženio tri puta. Nakon par mjeseci braka s Victorijom Harris tijekom 1897 u okrugu Franklin, Missouri, Parker se preselio u Bollinger County, Missouri kako bi bio bliže svojoj obitelji. Njegovi roditelji, Samuel i Sarah Zimmerman, živio u Dongoli, Bollinger, Missouri. Na ožujka 31, 1902, 27-godišnji Parker oženio se svojom drugom ženom, 22-godišnja Mellie Bollinger.
U subotu, Travanj 9, 2022, Povijesno društvo Franklin County Missouri pozvalo me da održim PowerPoint prezentaciju o pljački banke Union Missouri 1902. Knjiga pokriva pljačku, istraga, dva državna lova na bjegunca i smion bijeg od St. Louis City Jail. Dva odvažna razbojnika, not yet 23 godina, skinuo
Tom Allen rođen je u Birminghamu, England on April 23, 1840 ali postao je poznat kao borac golih zglobova u teškoj kategoriji u Americi. Nastanivši se u St. Louis around 1867, godine Allen je osvojio naslov američkog prvaka u teškoj kategoriji 1873 i držao je titulu sve do 1876. Vratio se u Englesku na godinu dana prije nego što se vratio u St. Louis zauvijek u 1878. Natrag
U utorak, Srpanj 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. Za 17 years from 1890
U prosincu 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,
Kolovoza 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, Siječanj 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, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 godina. 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. Odjel Louis policije. 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