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Odon Guitar [No audio]

by Bob Priddy on August 31, 2007

in Across Our Wide Missouri

On a cold winter day in Jefferson City in the winter of 1861-62, Odon Guitar received notice he was to appear in circuit court in Columbia the next morning.  He was with the Union army.  There was no bridge across the ice-covered Missouri but he decided to cross anyway and told friends to have horses waiting on the other side.  He fell through the ice and was carried downstream before finally reaching the other shore, cold and exhausted.  His friends had decided he wasn’t coming and had left. Guitar found a farm, bought a horse, rode all night, and was in Columbia for court the next morning.

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War Heroes Father and Son

by Bob Priddy 08/30/07 11:56 AM

He was a respected naval officer on the verge of retirement with nothing to lose by being candid.
The Senate Naval Affairs Committee had a bill before it calling for an expansion of the Navy.  The Navy was a shadow of what it had been when the Great War had ended in 1918.
St. Louisan Joseph K. [...]

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A Boy Named Joyce

by Bob Priddy 08/29/07 11:55 AM

Some names we think are reserved for women – Karen, Shirley, Carol, and others – but these names are sometimes given to boys, too.  This happened to one boy, born in Nebraska and named for a minister.  The business he founded is known today as one of the very best in the world. He was [...]

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Governor, Father of a Governor

by Bob Priddy 08/28/07 11:53 AM

When Governor Thomas Reynolds committed suicide, the top officer in state government became Meredith Miles Marmaduke, who served only the nine months left of the Reynolds term.  He is often remembered in terms of family rather than accomplishments.  He was part of the famous Sappington family of Arrow Rock and the only governor in Missouri [...]

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The Possum Policy Publisher

by Bob Priddy 08/27/07 11:50 AM

In 1870 the Democratic party in Missouri, still reeling from the impact of the Civil War, did not nominate a candidate for governor.  It adopted what became known as "the possum policy" and aligned itself with the liberal Republicans.  The move enabled the liberals to throw out the radicals then in charge and the Democrats [...]

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