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From Humble Roots
Imagine for a moment that you were born in 1838, in a small village in Germany that even today has fewer than 2,000 residents. As a teenager, you worked in…
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Pieces of Eight
Between 1818 and 1836, Congress passed a series of laws providing pensions to soldiers of the Revolutionary War, many of whom were in poor health and destitute. These veterans had…
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A Message of Resilience
You know those people in your life who seem to never stop moving? They accomplish so much and it's hard to understand how they find the time to do everything.…
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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…