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Defender of St. Louis
Our recent post about Revolutionary War veteran John Pipes Jr. got us thinking about a figure in St. Louis history of whom most people are unaware. The name Fernando de…
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A Tale of Two Homesteads
In 1838, our ancestor Friedrich Wilhelm Twellman was 40 years old when he took his then-pregnant wife, Henrietta, and their young family and boarded a ship near Bremen, Germany, for…
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Batter Up!
Our ancestor Louis Garland was a professional baseball player, born in Archie, Missouri in 1905. He began his baseball career pitching for the Ottumwa Cardinals in 1925. In the years…
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First Texaco Station in St. Louis
Automobiles have played an outsized role throughout Pipes Family history. When cars were just becoming a common sight on the streets of St. Louis, our ancestor Charles Martin Burmeister opened…