Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
På måndag, November 13, 2023, Jag uppnådde ett stort mål när jag vandrade längs hela Chubb Trail, en ut-och-tillbaka 13.6 mil spår i West St. Louis County. Vandringen tog mig sju timmar och trettio minuter att genomföra. När min äldsta son "Trey" fullföljde kraven för Gold Medal of Achievement i Royal Rangers, ekvivalent
Min farfarsfar Parker L. Zimmerman gifte sig tre gånger. Efter ett par månaders äktenskap med Victoria Harris under 1897 i Franklin County, Missouri, Parker flyttade till Bollinger County, Missouri för att vara närmare sin familj. Hans föräldrar, Samuel och Sarah Zimmerman, bodde i Dongola, Bollinger, Missouri. På mars 31, 1902, 27-årige Parker gifte sig med sin andra fru, 22-åriga Mellie Bollinger.
På lördag, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society bjöd in mig att ge en PowerPoint-presentation om Union Missouri Bank Robbery av 1902. Boken tar upp rånet, utredningen, två rikstäckande jakter på flyktingen och ett vågat avbrott från St. Louis City Jail. Två vågade rånare, inte ännu 23 år, drog av
Tom Allen föddes i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han blev känd som en tungviktsbar knoge-prisfighter i Amerika. Bosätter sig i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vann American Heavyweight Championship i 1873 och höll titeln tills 1876. Han återvände till England i ett år innan han återvände till St. Louis för gott in 1878. Tillbaka
På tisdag, 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 years from 1890
På December 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. De män tog $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
På Augusti 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, 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 earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis polisen. 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