Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about miscellaneous history.
George Baptiste spent about twenty years serving as St. Louis’ resident all-around athlete before taking over the company, Baptiste Tent and Awning, founded by his father Alexander Baptiste. Besides plying his trade as an occasional but accomplished professional wrestler, Baptise was a powerful swimmer. Augustus 11, 1900, Baptiste used his swimming skills to save another St. Louisan from drowning.
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Egter, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professionele gevegte in die 19de eeu geniet 'n swak reputasie buite
Johnny Reagan was 'n belangrike vegter in die St. Louis-bokstoneel gedurende die eerste dekade van die 20ste eeu. Oorspronklik van Brooklyn, Reagan het na St. Louis om onder Jack McKenna te oefen. McKenna het sy operasie uit St. Louis, waar sy vegter hoofsaaklik by St. Louis’ West End Klub. Reagan was destyds 'n krielgewig wat styg
Augustus 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. In 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. In 1847, die
Oliver Leonard Kirk het die onderskeiding dat dit die enigste Olimpiese bokser 'n goue medalje te wen in twee afsonderlike gewig klasse in dieselfde Olimpiese Spele. Oliver Kirk vervul hierdie ding op sy tuisdorp Olimpiese Spele in 1904. St. Louis gasheer vir die derde Olimpiade gedurende die 1904 World's Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Op September 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Vir jare, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Kate Chopin, dogter van 'n prominente Franse familie en in die tyd plaaslike skrywer, duie gestort het op die St. Louis 1904 World's Fair Augustus 20, 1904. Madame Chopin was net 54 jaar oud en het 'n brein bloeding of aneurisme. Sy het gesterf in haar huis op McPherson Avenue Augustus 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Op November 1908, three bishops and an abbot dedicated St. Francis de Sales Church, “the Cathedral of South St. Louis”. Built to serve the growing German Catholic population in St. Louis, the huge church would become the home to many families including my great grandparents, Eduard and Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 kinders. Die St. Louis Aartsbisdom het die kerk ingewy
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 jaar, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
Wanneer dit kom by die masjien politiek en georganiseerde misdaad, Kansas City was nog altyd uitgestof St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City was ook die tuiste van verskeie hoë-profiel Gang skietery. St. Louis’ laaste georganiseerde misdaad leier in hegtenis geneem is vir die speel van kaarte. We did have a Democratic party political machine around