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John Paxton published St. Louis' first directory in 1821. It contained the names, occupations, and addresses of heads of household. While this excluded most females, widows were listed by their married names without an occupation. In some instances, females who were presumably heads of household had their names, occupations, and addresses listed.
St. Louis becomes part of the new U.S. state of Missouri. City Directory begins publication. [1] [10] 1822 City of St. Louis incorporated. [10] Area of city: 385 acres. [12] 1823 – William Carr Lane becomes mayor. 1825 – Lafayette visits town. [13] 1826 – Catholic Diocese of St. Louis established. [14] 1828 – County Courthouse built.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri from 1804 to 1865 included the creation of St. Louis as the territorial capital of the Louisiana Territory, a brief period of growth until the Panic of 1819 and subsequent depression, rapid diversification of industry after the introduction of the steamboat and the return of prosperity, and rising tensions about the issues of immigration and slavery.
St. Louis city directories listed Grissom as an editor working for the Dispatch in 1865 and the Republican in 1878 and 1880. Historian Walter B. Stevens said of him in 1911: He was at home in every field of editorial comment. What he wrote was easy to read. The style was virile and straightforward.
By 1880, St. Louis was the third-largest raw cotton market in the United States, with an overwhelming majority of it transported to the city by railroad. [6] Among these new railroad connections was the Cotton Belt Railroad, organized in St. Louis in 1879 from smaller lines that connected the region to cotton producers in Texas. [6]
Despite his social standing, Postlewaite was evidently held in high enough esteem, and his musical abilities respected enough to be included as a composer and performer at the Veiled Prophet's Ball in 1880, an elite affair for those in the upper echelons of St. Louis society. [5] City directory entry for Joseph W. Postlewaite, 1859 City ...
Brewing became the city's largest industry by 1880, and St. Louis breweries were innovators. Anheuser-Busch pioneered refrigerated railroad cars for beer transport and was the first company to market pasteurized bottled beer. [145] Industry along 12th St. and Washington Ave., 1892. St. Louis became home to whiskey distilleries.
Anchor Line steamboat City of New Orleans at New Orleans levee on Mississippi River. View created as composite image from two stereoview photographs, ca. 1890. The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business.