Dear Dan and all, I would love to hear more stories about your "Smithing" ancestors...anyone wanna dive in with one?? :o) Take care, Diana List Admin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Hogan" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [BLACKSMITHING] Smithing research > Mine too, blacksmith for the August Busch Estate, St Louis, next to the > brewery, abt 1880-1907. > Dan Hogan > On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 12:51 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > My great grandfather was a blacksmith in Missouri in the late 1800s & > > early 1900s. I am trying to get as much information as I can about his > > life. > > > > > > > ==== BLACKSMITHING Mailing List ==== > List Mom for the BLACKSMITHING mailing list: > Diana Boothe > [email protected] > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >

Michael J HOGAN arrived in America in 1880 from the hill country of County Tipperary, Ireland, and settled in St Louis, MO as a blacksmith/farrier for the August A Busch Estate, probably the one next to the Anheuser-Busch brewery. The Busch family were all into horses and had many estates all over MO, but Michael lived "downtown" St Louis and highly unlikely he traveled much. He lived along with his family in a cottage on the estate. A story handed down to me, and still told in St Louis today is that Michael was so mean to horses that he once knocked one out cold! This is probably why he abruptly left for Chicago around 1907. I have a picture of him taken in 1891, you should see his shoulders! On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, at 04:39 PM, Diana Boothe wrote: > Dear Dan and all, > I would love to hear more stories about your "Smithing" > ancestors...anyone > wanna dive in with one?? :o) > Take care, > Diana > List Admin