Pertaining To St. Louis
Interesting Things To Google.
A St. Louis woman, Pearl Curran, claimed to receive poetry from a spirit through a Ouija board.
Clarence Terhune, a St. Louis caddy, stowed away on the German airship Zeppelin.
The bullet that killed Wild Bill Hickok is buried in St. Louis.
Pretty Boy Floyd was sent to the Missouri penitentiary for a $12,000 St. Louis payroll robbery.
John Dillinger attended an automobile show at Municipal Auditorium in St. Louis.
The Reno Gang and their father lived in St. Louis for a couple of years when things got too hot for them in Indiana.
Frank James, Jesse's brother, was cremated in St. Louis.
Outlaw Sam Bass ran away from his Indiana home when he was a teenager and went to St. Louis but didn't stay long because he thought the city was too dangerous.
Doc Holliday practiced dentistry in St. Louis.
Jack The Ripper died in St. Louis.
Billy The Kid's mother ran a boarding house in St. Louis.
The pirate Jean Lafitte lived his last years around St. Louis and is buried across the river in Alton.
The Sundance Kid and Etta Place were spotted by Pinkerton detectives at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Charles Manson went to St. Louis in the 1950s and got a tattoo.
The 1949 exorcism in St. Louis.
Geronimo rode the Ferris wheel at the St. Louis World's Fair.
Serial killer H.H. Holmes was locked up in a St. Louis jail with a Missouri train robber.
John Slack, one of the men involved in the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, moved to St. Louis and opened a casket making company.
Big Jim Kennally, a counterfeiter from St. Louis, came up with a plan to steal Lincoln's body in 1876.
Egan's Rats, St. Louis gangsters, were the main suspects in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
John Wilkes Booth was arrested in St. Louis for making anti-government threats.
Mark Gray, who worked for a St. Louis dry goods firm, attempted to assassinate Edwin Booth during a play in Chicago.
Martin Monti, a St. Louis born pilot, defected to Nazi Germany during the war and worked as a propagandist.
A St. Louis woman, Pearl Curran, claimed to receive poetry from a spirit through a Ouija board.
Clarence Terhune, a St. Louis caddy, stowed away on the German airship Zeppelin.
The bullet that killed Wild Bill Hickok is buried in St. Louis.
Pretty Boy Floyd was sent to the Missouri penitentiary for a $12,000 St. Louis payroll robbery.
John Dillinger attended an automobile show at Municipal Auditorium in St. Louis.
The Reno Gang and their father lived in St. Louis for a couple of years when things got too hot for them in Indiana.
Frank James, Jesse's brother, was cremated in St. Louis.
Outlaw Sam Bass ran away from his Indiana home when he was a teenager and went to St. Louis but didn't stay long because he thought the city was too dangerous.
Doc Holliday practiced dentistry in St. Louis.
Jack The Ripper died in St. Louis.
Billy The Kid's mother ran a boarding house in St. Louis.
The pirate Jean Lafitte lived his last years around St. Louis and is buried across the river in Alton.
The Sundance Kid and Etta Place were spotted by Pinkerton detectives at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Charles Manson went to St. Louis in the 1950s and got a tattoo.
The 1949 exorcism in St. Louis.
Geronimo rode the Ferris wheel at the St. Louis World's Fair.
Serial killer H.H. Holmes was locked up in a St. Louis jail with a Missouri train robber.
John Slack, one of the men involved in the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, moved to St. Louis and opened a casket making company.
Big Jim Kennally, a counterfeiter from St. Louis, came up with a plan to steal Lincoln's body in 1876.
Egan's Rats, St. Louis gangsters, were the main suspects in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
John Wilkes Booth was arrested in St. Louis for making anti-government threats.
Mark Gray, who worked for a St. Louis dry goods firm, attempted to assassinate Edwin Booth during a play in Chicago.
Martin Monti, a St. Louis born pilot, defected to Nazi Germany during the war and worked as a propagandist.
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First U.S. City To Have Chewing Gum Union 1900
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2499...ing-gum-union/Posted 01-20-2022 at 05:49 AM by aliasfinn
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Man And Dog Shot In South St. Louis County 2022
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/po...-louis-county/Posted 01-22-2022 at 06:44 AM by aliasfinn
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3D Rendering
Frank Finkel (1854-1930}
Sole survivor of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He worked in the dairy industry in St. Louis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_FinkelPosted 02-23-2023 at 01:14 AM by Valeriia 
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Missourians At The Alamo
Not sure where in Missouri they were born, some could have been born in St. Louis.
https://www.coopercountyhistoricalsociety.org/the-alamoPosted 04-29-2024 at 09:29 PM by aliasfinn
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Arthur C. McCoy (1825-1880?)
Born in Ireland, he immigrated to the United States, first settling in California during the gold rush.
By the 1850s he was living in St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked as a coppersmith. In 1855, he married Louisa Gibson, and the couple would have five children.
He then formed a partnership and started a painting business called " Farmer & McCoy."
During the Civil War, he became a captain under Confederate General Jo Shelby and was said to have worked as a spy.
After the war, he became involved with the James-Younger Gang and was thought to have been involved in several robberies and the killing of a Pinkerton Agent named Joseph Whicher in 1874. He then moved his family to Texas, where he began working as a rancher.
He was thought to have died around 1880.Posted 05-01-2024 at 05:51 PM by aliasfinn
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Allen H. Parmer (1848-1927)
He was born and raised in Missouri. He rode with Quantrill during the Civil War and was paroled with Frank James in Kentucky when the war ended.
Afterward, he joined the James-Younger Gang and was allegedly present during their first robbery of the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri, on February 13, 1866.
He then attended Bryant & Stratton's Business College in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1867-68.
A warrant was issued for his arrest for participating in the robbery of the Hughes and Wasson Bank in Richmond, Missouri, in May 1867, however, when he produced an alibi that he was working in St. Louis at the time, all charges were dropped.
November 24, 1870, he married Susan Lavinia James, sister of Frank and Jesse James, and the couple would have six children. He moved his family to Archer City, Texas, where he died October 25, 1927.Posted 05-02-2024 at 04:53 AM by aliasfinn
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David Carradine's grandfather, Beverly Carradine, was a Methodist minister in St. Louis in 1890.
Andrew Kehoe and the Bath school disaster of 1927. He suffered a head injury in St. Louis and was never the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disasterPosted 05-02-2024 at 05:49 AM by aliasfinn
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Lottie Briscoe (1883-1950) Actress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_Briscoe
Oliver Eckhardt (1873-1952) Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248668/Posted 05-02-2024 at 08:20 PM by aliasfinn
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" St. Louie " Louie Roberts (1950-1991)
Pool player
https://www.onthecheese.com/tv/louie-roberts.html
John " Mushmouth " Johnson (1856-1907)
Negro Gambling King
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...john-v-johnsonPosted 05-03-2024 at 04:00 AM by aliasfinn
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1904 Elevator Accident Kills Eight.
https://kenzimmermanjr.com/boys-and-...ll-down-shaft/
Tom Allen (1840-1903)
1st bareknuckle heavyweight boxing champion.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21990/thomas-allenPosted 05-04-2024 at 06:27 AM by aliasfinn
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The 1914 Athletic Club Fire Killed 37 People.
https://www.fireengineering.com/fire...d-other-fires/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mohist...n/photostream/Posted 05-05-2024 at 07:47 AM by aliasfinn
