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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Le mercredi, Mai 9, 1900, le deuxième jour de St. Louis tramway grève, une balle perdue a tué Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un vétéran de la guerre hispano-américaine, observait une grève de rassemblement à l'angle de Finney et N. Taylor Avenue. Pendant le rallye, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, le second braqueur de banque impliquée dans l'Union, MO vol de banque sur Décembre 26, 1902, tenté d'échapper à la St. Louis prison en Janvier 1904. En plus de travailler avec les autres prisonniers sur faire un trou dans le mur de la prison, il a également arrangé avec un gardien de prison pour avoir scies contrebande à lui. Collins intended to use
On September 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. Le 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 “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee had the challenge of raising her two-year-old son Gilbert as a single
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Service de police de Louis métropolitaine. 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. Sur Janvier
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. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
Sur Novembre 16, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer 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. The man later identified as Frank Rande entered Wright’s Pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
Le vendredi, October 14, et samedi, October 15, 1904, 42 lutteurs 7 catégories de poids sont rencontrés dans les premiers Jeux Olympiques contestées dans la méthode de lutte libre. Jeux Olympiques antérieurs ont été contestées dans le style gréco-romain de la lutte. La 1904 Jeux Olympiques d'été a eu lieu en collaboration avec le 1904 Exposition universelle à St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Kate Chopin, fille d'une famille française de premier plan et à l'heure de l'écrivain local, effondré à Saint-. Louis 1904 Exposition mondiale sur Août 20, 1904. Mme Chopin seulement 54 ans et souffrait d'une hémorragie cérébrale ou un anévrisme. Elle est morte à son domicile sur l'avenue McPherson sur Août 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. L'un des mécanismes utilisés par les gouvernements pour collecter les redevances routières