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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Мисури, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Eduard Mosblech is my maternal great-grandfather. Eduard was born in St. Louis, Missouri on October 24, 1884, to German immigrants Gustave Mosblech and Bertha Mosblech nee Monse. Често се пишува како Едвард, но се изговара како спојување помош и одделение, Eduard was as unique as his name. Се борев да пишувам многу за него, бидејќи приказните што ги слушнав за него
Кога станува збор за машина политиката и организираниот криминал, Канзас Сити отсекогаш засени Свети. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Канзас Сити е исто така дом на неколку од висок профил во мафијашки убиства. St. Louis’ последните организиран криминал лидер беше уапсен за играње карти. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Април 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Мерел бил вработен како механичар во
Пред неколку недели, Барав копија од Ајванхо од Сер Волтер Скот од старата библиотека на дедо ми. Дедо Гилберт П. Елис имаше библиотека што ми ја подари во раните 1990-ти. These books and his desk are treasures that will stay with me until the day I die. As a kid, Порано седев во неговото
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Историја Луис Полицијата, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
On the morning of Saturday, Април 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Бродвеј. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. Времето
Last Monday, I was able to scratch a big item off my bucket list. I attended a Liverpool Football Club game in person. Liverpool FC came to my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri on August 1, 2016 to play a preseason game with AS Roma. My daughter Caity attended the match with me, which made the day extra special. Јас
Buildings are just piles of boards and bricks without the stories that are attached to them. During November 1912, St. Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston was killed by paroled murderer Albert Whitefield. Whitefield had surprised his common-law wife, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
On Tuesday, Ноември 5, 1901, St. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
My second great-grandfather George Washington Story was born in August 1843 to Gilford Dudley Story and his second wife Nancy Jane Story nee Womack. George was born in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Illinois, USA. He was the fourth of Dudley’s and Nancy’s nine children. George Washington Story married his first wife and my second great-grandmother Malinda Davis on November 26, 1863,