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The St. Louis Fire of 1849 was a devastating fire that occurred on May 17, 1849 and destroyed a significant part of St. Louis, Missouri and many of the steamboats using the Mississippi River and Missouri River. [1] Captain Thomas B. Targee was killed while trying to blast a fire break. [1] Targee Street was named for him.
The company had an extensive equipment network of cars and tracks to bring clay to the plant. Evens & Howard's offices were located on Market Street in St. Louis. [3] An 1875 fire consumed the brickworks, [1] causing $50,000 in damage [4] ($1.39 million adjusted for inflation). [5] Parts of the sewer pipe division were destroyed by fire at ...
The Saginaw Valley & St. Louis Railroad was constructed to the village in 1871, and Saint Louis grew in population and size in the 1870s and 1880s, mainly due to the steady stream of visitor to the mineral baths. In 1881, a new ordinance required all new building construction downtown to be of brick.
William Russell Pickering (1849–1927), referred to as W. R. Pickering, was an American miner, lumber baron, developer, railroad owner and banker.From his first business adventure in mining lead, in Joplin, Missouri in 1872, and his partnership with Ellis Short in the merchandise business at Joplin, the empire grew across several states, including Missouri, Arkansas, Indian Territory ...
In 1919, J.R. Bemis, son of W.N. Bemis, moved to Graysonia to learn the lumber business. He was twenty years old. He remained in Graysonia until July 1920, when he traveled to St. Louis, Missouri and began working with Don Lambert, learning how the lumber sales business worked from the standpoint of working off commission. By 1921, J.R. Bemis ...
The Desloge family, (/ d ə ˈ l oʊ ʒ /) [1] centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis, [2] rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land ...
Two workers injured in explosion, fire at chemical plant in East St. Louis Allnex was reportedly founded in 2013 after Advent International bought the Coating Resins Division as part of a sell-off ...
He continued to cut one to five million feet of lumber until 1877. [1] He opened a sawmill along the Saginaw River in 1874. [2] He took a short amount of time off, but lumbered in 1880–1882, 1885, and 1886. He marketed his lumber widely, selling wood in Toledo, Cleveland, Dayton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and elsewhere.