Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Á miðvikudaginn, Maí 9, 1900, annan dag St. Louis Streetcar Strike, a villast bullet drap Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, Spænskur-American War öldungur, var að horfa á verkfall heimsókn á horni Finney og N. Taylor Avenue. Á heimsókn, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, reynt að flýja st. Louis fangelsi í janúar 1904. Fyrir utan að vinna með öðrum föngum að gera gat í vegg fangelsisins, skipaði hann einnig með fangelsi vörður til að hafa sagir smyglað honum. Collins intended to use
Á 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. The 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 “Lee” Johannpeter, my great grandmother. When Lee’s husband William Ellis died in 1917, Lee varð fyrir þeirri áskorun að ala upp tveggja ára son sinn Gilbert sem einhleyp
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. 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. Janúar
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. Á September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
Nóvember 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. Maðurinn síðar greind sem Frank Rande inn pawnshop Wright á um 9:30 a.m. Wright sendi einn af aðstoðarmönnum hans fyrir lögreglu. As Officer White and Heffernan
Á föstudaginn, Október 14, og laugardagur, Október 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers í 7 þyngd flokkar mætt á fyrstu Olympic Games umdeildu í skriðsund Glíma aðferð. Áður Olympic Games voru mótmælt í Greco-Roman stíl glímu. The 1904 Sumarólympíuleikarnir var haldinn í tengslum við að 1904 Heimsins Fair í St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Kate Chopin, dóttir áberandi franska fjölskyldu og á þeim tíma sveitarstjórn, hrundi á St. Louis 1904 Heimsins Fair ágúst 20, 1904. Madame Chopin var aðeins 54 ára og þola heila blæðingar eða aneurism. Hún lést á heimili sínu á McPherson Avenue á ágúst 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. Eitt af þeim aðferðum sem stjórnvöld notuðu til að innheimta gjöld fyrir vegi