Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
O mércores, Maio 9, 1900, o segundo día de St. Louis Streetcar folga, unha bala perdida matou Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un veterano da Guerra Hispano-Americana, estaba asistir a un mitin folga na esquina da Finney e N. Taylor Avenue. Durante o mitin, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, o segundo asaltante de bancos implicados na Unión, Asalto a base MO en decembro 26, 1902, tentou fuxir do St. Louis Jail en xaneiro 1904. Ademais de traballar cos outros prisioneiros en facer un buraco na parede da prisión, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
En setembro de 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. O 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 “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter was born in St. Charles, MO on March 5, 1875 to recent German immigrants Frederick William Johannpeter and Johanna Johannpeter nee Grieve. “Uncle 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 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. Louis Departamento de Policía Metropolitana. 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. En xaneiro de
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. En setembro de 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
En novembro 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
O venres, Outubro 14, and Saturday, Outubro 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. O 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 dunha familia francesa de destaque e, na época autor local, desmoronou no St. Louis 1904 Feira Mundial en agosto 20, 1904. Madame Chopin era só 54 anos de idade e sufriu unha hemorraxia cerebral ou aneurisma. Ela morreu na súa casa en McPherson Avenue en agosto 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 dos mecanismos empregados polos gobernos para cobrar taxas por estrada