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Jessie Ann Robbins Belmont in 1912 sketch by Marguerite Martyn of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1880, Sloane was married to Jessie Ann Robbins (1858–1935). [10] Jessie was the daughter of Matilda Louisa (née Frost) Robbins and Daniel Cook Robbins, a partner in the wholesale drug firm of McKesson & Robbins. Together, they were the parents ...
Belmont died in Manhattan, New York City on November 24, 1890, from pneumonia. [2] His funeral was held at the Church of the Ascension in New York City. The Letters, Speeches and Addresses of August Belmont was published at New York in 1890. Belmont left an estate valued at more than ten million dollars (equivalent to $310 million in 2023).
Born in Westchester, New York, he was the son of Pierre Lorillard III (1796–1867) and Catherine Griswold. In 1760, his great-grandfather, and namesake, founded P. Lorillard and Company in New York City to process tobacco, cigars, and snuff.
Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri.Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan-designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The company's headquarters was located in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm was the designer of the ill-fated I-35W Mississippi River bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1964 (collapsed on August 1, 2007). [1]
Susman was born into the Susman family of St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Frank Susman (Susman, Schermer, Rimmel & Shifrin). [8] Mr. Susman argued six cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and is the only attorney in history to have been invited or permitted to argue two separate cases before the Supreme Court on the same day.
Jones was born in St. Louis, Missouri and spent much of his youth on his family's farm in Williamsburg, Missouri. [1] [2] Following graduation from the Taylor School in 1943, Jones enlisted in the Merchant Marines during World War II, then served in the United States Army in 1946 before returning to the University of Missouri in 1947 to study agriculture.
Joseph Colombo Sr. was born into an Italian American family on June 16, 1923, in Brooklyn. [1] His father, Anthony Colombo, was an early member of the Profaci crime family, which would eventually be renamed after his son.