A hurricane on Friday February 17, 1871 damaged and/or destroyed a majority of the buildings in Helena, Arkansas. The city was still reeling from the recent fire that had caused damage to many of the buildings that ended up being destroyed by the hurricane. Two known fatalities were a Mrs. Stewart and her young son. The buildings and companies that suffered the worst of the damage included the...
Professor Waterhouse, of Washington University in St. Louis, sent a letter to Governor B. Gratz Brown pushing for the passing of measures to ensure that Missouri could secure the immigration of skilled artisans from Europe. Since France and other European nations were demolished during the Franco-German War, many of the citizens of these countries began to leave their homelands and immigrated to...
Jesse James, the wanted bandit and train robber, was killed in his home in St. Joseph, Missouri the morning of April 3, 1882. James had been living in a small house on a hill in the southeast part of town with his wife since November 1881. There were also two other men with Jesse James and his wife at the time of his death, Robert and Charles Ford. Charles had been with Jesse since he had moved...