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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. Em agosto 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. A luta profissional no século 19 gozava de má reputação fora do país.
Johnny Reagan was an important fighter in the St. Louis boxing scene during the first decade of the 20th Century. Originally from Brooklyn, Reagan moved to St. Louis to train under Jack McKenna. McKenna based his operation out of St. Louis, where his fighter primarily fought at St. Louis’ West End Club. Reagan was a rising bantamweight at the time
Em agosto 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. Em 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. Em 1847, o
Oliver Leonard Kirk tem a distinção de ser o único boxeador olímpico a ganhar uma medalha de ouro em duas categorias de peso diferentes nos mesmos Jogos Olímpicos. Oliver Kirk conseguido este feito em sua cidade natal Olimpíadas de 1904. St. Louis sediou a terceira Olimpíada durante o 1904 Exposição Feira Mundial. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Em setembro de 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. Durante anos, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Kate Chopin, filha de uma família francesa de destaque e, na época autor local, desmoronou no St. Louis 1904 Feira Mundial em agosto 20, 1904. Madame Chopin era só 54 anos de idade e sofreu uma hemorragia cerebral ou aneurisma. Ela morreu em sua casa em McPherson Avenue em agosto 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Em novembro 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 children. O St. A Arquidiocese de Louis dedicou a igreja
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 anos, 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
Quando se trata de política de máquinas e crime organizado, Kansas City sempre ofuscado St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City também foi o lar de vários tiroteios entre quadrilhas de alto perfil. St. Louis’ last organized crime leader was arrested for playing cards. We did have a Democratic party political machine around