Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Posts about miscellaneous history.
På Augusti 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 has the distinction of being the only Olympic boxer to win a gold medal in two separate weight classes in the same Olympic Games. Oliver Kirk accomplished this feat at his hometown Olympics in 1904. St. Louis hosted the third Olympiad during the 1904 World’s Fair Exposition. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
På 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. För år, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Kate Chopin, daughter of a prominent French family and at the time local author, collapsed at the St. Louis 1904 World’s Fair on August 20, 1904. Madame Chopin was only 54 years old and suffered a brain hemorrhage or aneurism. She died at her home on McPherson Avenue on August 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
På 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 children. The St. Louis ärkestift invigde kyrkan
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
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. Emellertid, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professionella strider på 1800-talet hade ett dåligt rykte utanför
När det gäller maskin politik och organiserad brottslighet, Kansas City har alltid utklassade St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City var också hem till flera uppmärksammade gangstervärlden skottlossning. St. Louis’ sist organiserad brottslighet ledare greps för spelkort. We did have a Democratic party political machine around
På December 1, 1938 vid 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 år. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home
Byggnader är bara högar av brädor och tegel utan de berättelser som är fästa vid dem. During November 1912, St. Louis-polisen Arthur Huddleston dödades av den villkorliga mördaren Albert Whitefield. Whitefield hade överraskat sin sambo, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for