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Charles H. Turpin (died 1935) was a constable [1] filmmaker, theater owner, and judge in St. Louis, Missouri. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 1910, he became the first African American elected to city-wide office in St. Louis.
The son of an Irish-American saloonkeeper, Egan was born and raised in Kerry Patch, then known as the riverfront Irish ghetto of St. Louis. With some of his childhood pals, he began running with a local gang of thugs, known as the Ashley Street Gang. Egan's best friend, Thomas "Snake" Kinney, was a local street tough and Democratic politician ...
Sketch by St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Marguerite Martyn of the opening of the Grand-Leader department store on September 8, 1906. Stix, Baer and Fuller (sometimes called "Stix" or SBF or the Grand-Leader) was a department store chain in St. Louis, Missouri that operated from 1892 to 1984.
Cella was chairman of the Knowlton Awards for Excellence at St. Louis' Barnes Hospital. He was an honorary trustee of the Schepens Eye Research Institute, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School and the world's largest independent eye research institute. In 1999, he opened Truffles restaurant in Ladue, a St. Louis suburb.
So far, the salon has hosted athletes including silver medalist Anabel Medina Ventura, Taliyah Brooks, Vashti Cunningham and WNBA player A’ja Wilson, and word is getting out.
Lucas was born in Pittsburgh and moved with his father John Baptiste Charles Lucas to St. Louis, in 1805.He received a college degree from Jefferson College in 1810.. Lucas engaged in considerable land speculation including buying much of the land in the wake of the New Madrid earthquake in 1811.
Thomas Jefferson Prep School was founded in 1946 by Robin McCoy, Charles E. Merrill Jr. (son of a founder of Merrill Lynch), and Graham Spring. They aimed to create a school whose governance rested with the faculty, patterned after the colleges that comprise Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Thomas Francis Schlafly (born October 28, 1948) [1] is an American businessman and writer. He co-founded the Saint Louis Brewery , which produces the Schlafly line of beers. [ 2 ] Schlafly is a graduate of the Saint Louis Priory School and received his A.B. and J.D. from Georgetown University .