Garret B. Kremer-Wright
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Garret B. Kremer-Wright has worked as the archivist for The State Historical Society of Missouri since February 2018. He earned his BS in Historic Preservation from Southeast Missouri State University and MA in Public History from Wright State University.
FeaturesJune 19, 2021
The U.S. 61 archEDITOR'S NOTE: This is Garret Wright's final article for the Southeast Missourian. He has written a history column for this newspaper since 2018. The Missourian thanks him for his contributions and wishes him well in the future. Known as the Great River Road or Blu...
FeaturesMay 15, 2021
A.C. NielsonAxtel Carl Nielson lived in Cape Girardeau for 25 years, from the 1910s to 1930s, with his wife Josephine and son Richard. The couple was married in Chicago in 1905 and had at least two children prior to moving to Missouri. During his time in Cape Girardeau, he wor...
FeaturesApril 10, 2021
Tribble residence in Bloomfield, MissouriKentucky-born Thomas Ewing Tribble was 5 years old when the Civil War broke out. At the time he was living with his parents, Nelson and Henrietta, along with his brothers, including John William, and sisters in Simpson County, Kentucky. There are no details on his ...
FeaturesMarch 6, 2021
Giboney Houck's Spanish-American War serviceThe Spanish-American War has been labeled America's forgotten war because of its short duration. The Cuban portion was three months long and took place entirely on Cuban soil. Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill has been the most recogn...
FeaturesJanuary 30, 2021
Firsthand account of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's second inaugurationAllen Laws Oliver Sr. and his wife, Olivia, traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the second inauguration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Jan. 20, 1937. Allen wrote of their experience three days later to their sons, Allen L. Oliver Jr. and John L. "Jack" O...
FeaturesDecember 26, 2020
Symons brothers of JacksonBrothers Alfred and Silas James Symons and their wives emigrated from England to Jackson in June 1889. They immigrated primarily because their brother, Frederick "Fred" Symons, was the local rail agent for the Missouri Pacific Railway Co. All the brothers had marri...
FeaturesNovember 21, 2020
Representative R.B. Oliver Sr.The 1902 election for the Missouri House of Representatives for Cape Girardeau County pitted Robert Burett Oliver (Democrat) against John D. Porterfield (Republican), George C. Thilenius (Independent Republican) and Thomas H. Jenkins (Progressive). Oliver won with ...
FeaturesOctober 17, 2020
Harris Field: Becoming the municipal airportIn February 1944, news arrived in Cape Girardeau that Harris Field would be discontinued by the Army Air Corps as a training facility for pilots the following month. With nearly 60-acres of real estate soon to be in the hands of the lessee, Defense Plant Corp., cit...
FeaturesSeptember 12, 2020
Farming in Risco, MissouriManfred James Holmes and his son, Parker Manfred Holmes, owned approximately 200 acres of adjoining farmland in New Madrid County, Missouri, near the town of Risco in the 1920s and 1930s. It is unclear when they originally purchased their property. According to the...
FeaturesAugust 8, 2020
Southeast Missouri yellow fever quarantine in 1905The first known epidemic of yellow fever in the United States was in the 1690s. Outbreaks would continue to occur in the southern United States until 1905. One hundred twenty years ago this month, Aug. 27, 1900, U.S. Army doctors James Carroll and Walter Reed disco...Advertisement
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