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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Dimecres, Maig 9, 1900, el segon dia de St. Louis Streetcar vaga, una bala perduda va matar a Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un veterà de la Guerra Espanyola-Americana, estava veient un ral · li vaga a la cantonada de Finney i N. Taylor Avenue. Durant la concentració, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, el segon atracador de bancs que participen en la Unió, MO atracament a un banc al desembre 26, 1902, intentat escapar del St. Louis presó al gener 1904. A més de treballar amb els altres presos a fer un forat a la paret de la presó, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Al setembre 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. El St. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
Julius “Oncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Oncle Jules” was seven years older than his sister Caroline Leah “Sotavento” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee va tenir el repte de criar el seu fill Gilbert, de dos anys, com a solter
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Departament de Policia de Louis Metropolità. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. Al gener
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. Al setembre 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
Al novembre 16, 1877, St. Oficial de Policia Louis John S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. L'home posteriorment identificat com Frank Rande entrar Mont de Pietat de Wright en al voltant 9:30 A.M. Wright va enviar a un dels seus ajudants per la policia. As Officer White and Heffernan
Divendres, Octubre 14, and Saturday, Octubre 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers in 7 weight classes met in the first Olympic Games contested in the freestyle wrestling method. Prior Olympic Games were contested in the Greco-Roman style of wrestling. La 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Kate Chopin, filla d'una prominent família francesa i en el moment en l'autor local, esfondrat al St. Louis 1904 Fira Mundial a l'agost 20, 1904. Madame Chopin només era 54 anys i va patir una hemorràgia cerebral o aneurisma. Va morir a casa a l'avinguda McPherson a l'agost 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. Un dels mecanismes que van utilitzar els governs per cobrar les taxes per carretera