Robert Somers Brookings
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Robert Somers Brookings 1850–1932 Philanthrope" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632838187745{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632838208789{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Robert Brookings worked as a clerk and salesman for Cupples and Marston, a wholesale hardware distributor, before becoming a full partner in 1872. He retired,…...
Brown Brothers Mausoleums
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Brown Brothers Mausoleums" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1629810850762{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1629810906719{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]George Warren Brown made his fortune as a manufacturer of shoes. The hexagonal mausoleum was designed in 1928 by Mauran, Russell and Crowell, St. Louis architects. Opposite…...
Adolphus Busch
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Adolphus Busch 1839–1913 Brewer" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1629809894073{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1629810067024{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]Forty breweries existed in St. Louis when Eberhardt Anheuser bought, before the Civil War, the Bavarian Brewery. His daughter, Lilly, married Adolphus Busch who sold supplies…...
Robert Campbell
[vc_row equal_height="yes"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_custom_heading text="Robert Campbell 1804–1879 Fur Trader, Businessman" font_container="tag:h3|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1632838528785{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 35px !important;padding-right: 35px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"][vc_column_text css=".vc_custom_1632838547052{padding-right: 35px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 35px !important;}"]A native of Northern Ireland, Campbell came to St. Louis in 1824. He joined General William Ashley’s expedition to the fur trading country along…...