Proceedings
Proceedings

Author: Organization of American Historians

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13:

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"Directory of the ... association ... to February 9, 1924:" v. 11, pt. 1, p. [143]-164.

The History of the Desloge Family in America
The History of the Desloge Family in America

Author: Christopher Desloge

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1304244067

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The Desloge family in America is known as a great industrialist, philanthropic, religious and naturalist family spanning 200 years in America and is one of the oldest French families in Missouri and St. Louis. It has taken the vital force and verve of great families to build great business in America; and build a country of increasing middle-class consumers as well. Tycoons like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Guggenheim, Gould and Morgan - greats of the gilded age have made a real impression on industry and the increase in the human condition from those industries. Other families have made their mark in much the same way - such as Kellogg and Wrigley. Steel, railroads, finance, cereal, chewing gum. In lead, the name is Desloge. Starting with entrepreneurial zeal by wildcatting in mining in Missouri and also in the California Gold Rush, among these famous names, the Desloge family became - and today represents - industrial and social titans in Missouri and American history.

Working the Mississippi
Working the Mississippi

Author: Bonnie Stepenoff

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 0826273491

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The Mississippi River occupies a sacred place in American culture and mythology. Often called The Father of Rivers, it winds through American life in equal measure as a symbol and as a topographic feature. To the people who know it best, the river is life and a livelihood. River boatmen working the wide Mississippi are never far from land. Even in the dark, they can smell plants and animals and hear people on the banks and wharves. Bonnie Stepenoff takes readers on a cruise through history, showing how workers from St. Louis to Memphis changed the river and were in turn changed by it. Each chapter of this fast-moving narrative focuses on representative workers: captains and pilots, gamblers and musicians, cooks and craftsmen. Readers will find workers who are themselves part of the country’s mythology from Mark Twain and anti-slavery crusader William Wells Brown to musicians Fate Marable and Louis Armstrong.