Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
På mandag, November 13, 2023, Jeg oppnådde et stort mål da jeg gikk hele Chubb Trail, an out-and-back 13.6 mile trail in West St. Louis County. Turen tok meg syv timer og tretti minutter å fullføre. Da min eldste sønn "Trey" fullførte kravene til Gold Medal of Achievement i Royal Rangers, equivalent
Min oldefar Parker L. Zimmerman giftet seg tre ganger. Etter et par måneders ekteskap med Victoria Harris under 1897 i Franklin County, Missouri, Parker flyttet til Bollinger County, Missouri for å være nærmere familien sin. Foreldrene hans, Samuel og Sarah Zimmerman, bodde i Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. På Mars 31, 1902, 27-år gamle Parker giftet seg med sin andre kone, 22-år gamle Mellie Bollinger.
På lørdag, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society inviterte meg til å holde en PowerPoint-presentasjon om Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. Boken dekker ranet, etterforskningen, to landsomfattende jakter på flyktningen og et vågalt avbrekk fra St. Louis City Jail. To dristige ranere, not yet 23 år, trukket av
Tom Allen ble født i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han ble berømt som en tungvekts bar knoke priskjemper i Amerika. Bosette seg i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vant American Heavyweight Championship i 1873 og holdt tittelen til 1876. Han returnerte til England i et år før han returnerte til St. Louis for godt i 1878. Back
On Tuesday, July 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 år fra 1890
Desember 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,
August 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, 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 words, 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 opparbeidet seg et rykte som en tøff politibetjent i løpet av sin karriere i St.. Louis Police Department. Han ville trenge all den seigheten morgenen januar 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 hadde nettopp våknet og gjorde seg klar