Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
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. August 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. However, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Profesjonelle kamper på 1800-tallet hadde et dårlig rykte utenfor
Johnny Reagan var en viktig fighter i St. Louis boksescene i løpet av det første tiåret av det 20. århundre. Opprinnelig fra Brooklyn, Reagan flyttet til St. Louis for å trene under Jack McKenna. McKenna baserte operasjonen sin fra St. Louis, hvor jagerflyen hans først og fremst kjempet ved St. Louis’ West End-klubben. Reagan var en voksende bantamvekt på den tiden
August 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. I 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. I 1847, den
Oliver Leonard Kirk har æren av å være den eneste OL-bokseren til å vinne en gullmedalje i to separate vektklasser i samme OL. Oliver Kirk oppnådd denne bragden på hans hjemby OL i 1904. St. Louis vert den tredje Olympiad under 1904 Verdensutstillingen Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
On 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. For år, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Kate Chopin, datter av en fremstående fransk familie og på den tiden lokal forfatter, kollapset på St. Louis 1904 Verdensutstillingen August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin var bare 54 år gammel og led en hjerneblødning eller aneurisme. Hun døde i sitt hjem på McPherson Avenue August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
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 og Magdalena Mosblech, and their 14 children. The St. Louis erkebispedømmet viet kirken
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 år, 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
Når det gjelder maskin politikk og organisert kriminalitet, Kansas City har alltid outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City var også hjem til flere høyprofilerte gangland skytingen. St. Louis’ siste organisert kriminalitet leder ble arrestert for å spille kort. We did have a Democratic party political machine around