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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 Fire (1849) Steamboats along St. Louis Levee, 1850 In large part due to the rapid population growth, cholera became a significant problem. In 1849, a major cholera epidemic killed nearly 5,000 people, leading to a new sewer system and the draining of a mill pond.
History of St. Louis; Exploration and Louisiana; Before 1762; City founding and early history; 1763–1803; Expansion and the Civil War; 1804–1865; St. Louis as the Fourth City
St. Louis: Missouri: 77,860: First Top 10 appearance of any city west of the Mississippi River. 9 Spring Garden: Pennsylvania: 58,894: Now a neighborhood of Philadelphia. Only appearance in the top 10. Last census where Spring Garden was an independent city. 10 Albany: New York: 50,763: Last appearance in top 10.
He served as mayor of St. Louis from 1850 to 1853 as a member of the Whig Party and served as president of the St. Louis & Iron Mountain Railroad for a period in 1853. Kennett was elected as an Opposition Party candidate to the 34th Congress (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857). After losing his re-election, he retired to his home near St. Louis ...
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 ...
Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney was a department store founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850, by M.V.L. McClelland and Richard Scruggs as McClelland, Scruggs & Company. [1] The company started out as a Dry goods store, with the first store opened on North 4th street in downtown St. Louis, later expanding. In 1860, William L. Vandervoort joined ...
Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri at 634 S. Broadway where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum. [1] After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by an aunt, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts.