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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Pada hari Senin, November 13, 2023, Saya mencapai tujuan besar ketika saya mendaki sepanjang Chubb Trail, an out-and-back 13.6 mile trail in West St. Louis County bintang. Pendakian ini memakan waktu tujuh jam tiga puluh menit untuk saya selesaikan. Saat putra sulung saya “Trey” sedang menyelesaikan persyaratan Medali Emas Prestasi di Royal Rangers, equivalent
Kakek buyut saya Parker L. Zimmerman menikah tiga kali. Setelah beberapa bulan menikah dengan Victoria Harris selama 1897 di Kabupaten Franklin, Missouri, Parker berpindah ke Daerah Bollinger, Missouri agar lebih dekat dengan keluarganya. Orang tuanya, Samuel dan Sarah Zimmerman, tinggal di Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. Pada bulan Maret 31, 1902, 27-Parker yang berusia satu tahun menikahi istri keduanya, 22-Mellie Bollinger yang berusia satu tahun.
Pada hari Sabtu, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society mengundang saya untuk memberikan presentasi PowerPoint tentang Perampokan Bank Union Missouri 1902. Buku itu mencakup perampokan, investigasi, dua perburuan nasional untuk buronan dan terobosan berani dari St. Louis City Jail. Dua perampok yang berani, not yet 23 tahun, ditarik
Tom Allen lahir di Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 tapi dia menjadi terkenal sebagai petarung hadiah bare knuckle kelas berat di Amerika. Menetap di St. Louis around 1867, Allen memenangkan Kejuaraan Kelas Berat Amerika di 1873 dan memegang gelar itu sampai 1876. Dia kembali ke Inggris selama setahun sebelum kembali ke St. Louis. Louis untuk selamanya 1878. Back
Pada hari Selasa, 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 tahun dari 1890
Pada tanggal 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,
Pada Agustus 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, Januari 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, the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 tahun. 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 Kepolisian. 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