70 Articles - pg. 1 2 3 4 | By Title By DateCharles Stuart Via - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander on several occasions including terms in: 1956-1958, 1965-1966, and 1975-1978. He was one of our most revered commanders and a constant contributor who was always willing to lend a hand whenever the Camp was in need of leadership. He was born in 1907 and graduated from Southwest Missouri State University in 1929. He received his Masters Degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1936, and began teaching in 1939 at Kirkwood High School. Charl...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Chilton Atkinson - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1906. He was born in St. Louis on December 10th 1875, and was the son of Dr. Robert C. and Mary Tandy (Bull) Atkinson. His father, Dr. Atkinson was a physician who had served in the 10th Virginia Infantry during the war, and was a well loved and respected physician in St. Louis, who often refused payment for his many services. He died in 1917, and is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery in an unmarked grave. His son (the subject of this article) was ed...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Col. Daniel H. Hundley - Published on March 9, 2019... Col. Hundley began serving as Camp commander in 1967. He was born in 1901 and graduated from West Point in 1924. During World War II he served in the South Pacific, and was promoted to colonel in 1943. In 1944 he served as Chief of Staff for the 9th Army Division in Europe. He served in this position til the end of the war. During this period he was awarded: the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (with two Oak Leaf clusters and a Bronze star), the Order of the B...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Col. Francis Marion Curlee - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander beginning in 1914. He was born in Corinth, Mississippi on February 1st, 1877, and was the son of William Peyton, and Mary Elizabeth (Boone) Curlee. Col. Curlee graduated from the University of Mississippi LL.B in 1902, and practiced law in Corinth, Mississippi til 1905 when he moved to St. Louis. On November 25th, 1915 he married Miss Lucille Straubstadter in Charleston, West Virginia. Miss Straubstadter was a descendant of the St. Cyr family of...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Cornelius Hite Fauntleroy - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1912. He was born in Winchester, Virginia, and was the son of Thomas Turner, and Bettie Smith (Hite) Fauntleroy. He graduated from the Shenandoah Valley Academy, Winchester, Virginia in 1876, and received his M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1884. After graduation he served as assistant professor of Greek at the university. In 1890 Mr. Fauntleroy was admitted to the bar at St. Paul, Minnesota in 1890, and was a junior partner with the ...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Dr. Patrick Joseph Hardy, M.D. - Published on March 9, 2019... The son of Samuel Walker and Mary Patricia (Blesener) Hardy. His Great, great, great uncle, Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker, was a Texas Ranger killed in the Mexican War in 1847, for whom the Colt “Walker” pistol is named. Dr. Hardy’s Great -grandfather, Captain John McKim Hardy, served in Company “A” of Colonel Kenton Harper’s Regiment, Virginia Infantry. Capt. Hardy was born on December 15, 1831 in Winchester, Virginia, d...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Dr. Robert E. Lee Hughes - Published on March 9, 2019... Dr. Hughes began serving as Camp Commander in 1928. He had served in many positions within the camp, and was Camp Adjutant in 1923 under Commander Moreno. Others to serve on that staff included: Alcee Stewart, First Lieutenant Commander; Dr.Selden Spencer, Second Lieutenant Commander; W. Scott Hancock, Chaplain; and William Crowdus, Inspector. All of whom at one time also served as Camp Commanders. Dr. Hughes was the son of an old Kentucky family, and a graduate of Barnes Med...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Very Short |
Dr. Selden Spencer, M.D. - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1931, and served several terms. He was born in St. Louis on March 23rd 1873. He was the son of Dr. Horatio Nelson Spencer M.D. who served in the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery, General Cowan’s Brigade, Loring’s Division, Army of Tennessee C.S.A. Dr. H.N. Spencer helped found the St. Louis Medical College which later became the Medical Department of Washington University. Selden Spencer was educated at Stoddard Public School in S...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Edward C. Fisher - Published on March 9, 2019...Served as Camp Commander around 1925. In 1927 he was serving as 2nd Lieutenant Commander under Commander Joseph Mullen, and in 1928 was elected Missouri Division Commander, a position he held til his untimely death in 1930. In 1928 he also served as Trans-Mississippi Quartermaster under T-M Commander J. Edward Jones.
Edward C. Fisher was the son of Charles Page and Marie (Jerzey) Fisher. He was born in Powhattan County, Virginia on May 2, 1875. Mr. Fisher was l...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Frederick Lawson Niemeyer - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander for Sterling Price Camp #145 in 1948. He was born in St. Louis in 1889, in the area known as the Cabanne Place District, at 5595 Bartmer. One of his neighbors was ex-Confederate Joseph Boyce, who lived at 5812 Clemens.. Governor Hamilton Gamble’s home was at the corner of Hamilton and Plymouth. Frederick’s father, Henry V. Niemeyer, was born on February 24th, 1845, and served in the 9th Virginia Infantry C.S.A. He was a member of the...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Gaylord Patrick O'Connor - Published on March 9, 2019... Was born on November 20th 1916, and served as Camp Commander in 1987. That same year he was elected Missouri Division commander at Jefferson City. For the first time since 1940 the State of Missouri had regained Division status when five Camps were chartered that year. This accomplishment was due mainly to the efforts of Robert L. Hawkins III, “Pat” O’Connor, and John Karel of St. Louis. Army of the Trans-Mississippi Commander Ed Cailleteau of Baton ro...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
John Karel - Published on March 9, 2019... Commander of the Sterling Price Camp from 1988 to 1990 and member of the John S. Bowen Chapter of the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. He is best known to the St. Louis community as Director of Tower Grove Park, where he has orchestrated the historical restoration of the park to its original condition when Henry Shaw opened it in 1868.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch (June 17, 1999) wrote, "Mr. Karel, the park's director, has been an adroit co...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Very Short |
Joseph Mullen - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1926. His staff included; Norman L. Lincoln, First Lieutenant Commander; Edward C. Fisher, Second Lieutenant Commander; William L. Ross Jr., Adjutant; J. W. Estes, Treasurer; Cortez Kitchen, Quartermaster; M. N. Davis, Historian; Chilton Atkinson, Color Sergeant; and R. B. Gibson, Chaplain. Mr. Mullen was born on April 3rd, 1875 at Norfolk, Virginia. He was the son of Joseph and Emily Nash Mulle...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Judge Richard Brownrigg Haughton - Published on March 9, 2019... He was Camp commander in 1900. He was the son of Major Lafayette, and Sarah (Brownrigg) Haughton. Mrs. Haughton was the daughter of Richard Thomas Brownrigg of Columbus, Mississippi (See biography of Camp Commander Brownrigg). All of her male relatives who were old enough to bear arms, even distant cousins, were in the Confederate Army. Mrs. Haughton passed away in 1905. Her son Judge R. B. Haughton (the subject of this article) was born on November 24th 1864 in A...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Lee Meriwether - Published on March 9, 2019... He was one of our most fascinating members . He served as Camp Commander on several occasions, the first being around 1915. In 1964 he was made” Honorary Commander” of the Camp. Lee was born during the War for Southern Independence, (December 25th, 1862), and lived to see America go through the Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, the Korean Conflict, and the beginnings of the Vietnam War. He died March 12th, 1966 at the age of 104. One of his books titled...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Medium |
Noble Kendall Wyatt - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander from 1978 til 1980. He was born in Charleston, West Virginia, on December 22, 1919, and was the son of William Howard and Helen Elizabeth (Hubbard) Wyatt. His mother’s grand father, John Calvin Gillespie, served in Company “F” of the 50th Virginia Infantry. John Gillespie was captured at the battle of Spottsylvania on May 12th 1864, and sent to Point Lookout Prison. He escaped on April 1, 1865 and returned home at war’s e...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Oliver E. Sappington - Published on March 9, 2019... Was elected Camp Commander in 1993, and as of this writing ( July 1999), is the current Commander. Commander Sappington, known to his friends as “Ollie”, is a direct descendant of John Sappington, Revolutionary War veteran and early pioneer (1805) of St. Louis County. He grew up in Richmond Heights, where he attended public schools and worshiped at Richmond Heights Presbyterian Church. Ollie holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, Bachelor of Science in Education, an...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Paul Knabe - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1963. He was born in 1888, and worked as secretary of the C.V. Mosby Medical Publishing firm, til his retirement in 1955. His residence was at 8014 South Drive, Richmond Heights, Missouri. Mr. Knabe was also an elder of the Westminister Presbyterian Church. He died of a heart ailment on September 13th, 1964 at the age of 76 years, and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Source; Missouri Historical Society, Necrology Files ...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Very Short |
Richard McCulloch - Published on March 9, 2019... Served as Camp Commander in 1918, and was the son of Robert and Emma (Paxton) McCulloch. Robert McCulloch had served in the 18th Virginia Infantry at Gettysburg. Richard McCulloch was born in St. Louis on June 3rd, 1869, and educated in the public schools in St. Louis. He graduated from Washington University in 1891 as engineer of mines. He married Miss. Mary Grace Beggs, and the couple had three children; John I., Robert P. and Mary Sue (Jones). He served as chie...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
Richard Thomas Brownrigg - Published on March 9, 2019... Richard Thomas Brownrigg served as Camp Commander from 1901 til 1904. His Camp adjutant was W. B. Shields. Mr. Brownrigg was born in Columbus, Mississippi on August 23rd 1865. His parents were John and Elizabeth (Yerger) Brownrigg. He was named for his uncle, Major. Richard Thomas Brownrigg, who was killed during the Red River Campaign while serving under Gen. Richard Taylor. Commander Brownrigg graduated from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn...
Gene Dressel Article Length: Short |
