St. Louis

The hero of the Corps of Discovery arrived to take up his position as governor on this date in 1808, almost a full year after he'd been appointed to the role.

The Dred Scott case, formally known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was decided by the US Supreme Court on this date in 1857.

Oscar Wilde was visiting St. Louis on this date in 1882, and delivered a lecture to a capacity crowd at the Mercantile Library Hall.

Eliot Seminary (now Washington University) was chartered in St. Louis on this date.

William Tecumseh Sherman’s funeral mass and burial were held in St. Louis on this date in 1891.

Julia Cerré Soulard began transferring property she inherited from her late husband, Antoine Soulard, to the city of St. Louis on this date in 1841. The area she was gifting to the city included a small plot of land that had been serving as a public market since 1779, known today as Soulard Market.

In an atypical year for food, our staff got creative in the kitchen.

Frederick Kenneth Blassman, better known by his stage name Freddie Blassie, was born in St. Louis on this date in 1918.

The manager of the former St. Louis Browns, Chris von der Ahe, was essentially kidnapped and taken by train to Pittsburgh on this date in 1898, according to an archival report in the New York Times.