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Richard Muckerman
Richard Muckerman (April 9, 1897 – March 15, 1959) was a 1912 graduate from Western Military Academy in Alton, Illinois. He was the owner of the St. Louis Browns of the American League from through . He sold the Browns to Bill DeWitt after the 1948 season. Muckerman died of a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which ma ... in 1959. ReferencesBaseball-Reference.com 1897 births 1959 deaths [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Military Academy
Western Military Academy was a private military preparatory school located in Alton, Illinois, United States. It operated from 1879 to 1971. The campus is part of the National Register of Historic Places District (ID.78001167). The school motto was ''Mens Sana in Corpore Sano'' ("A sound mind in a sound body"). Early years In 1879, Edward Wyman, an 1835 Amherst College graduate, opened a boarding school for boys in what was then Upper Alton, Illinois. Wyman had been an esteemed educator in the St. Louis public schools. A school circular said that Wyman believed the region then called the western United States needed a "boarding school for the proper education of young men." In 1887, Wyman hired Albert M. Jackson to be a member of the staff. Jackson was an 1884 Princeton graduate and had just completed two years of teaching mathematics and Latin at Blair Academy in New Jersey. Upon Wyman's death in 1888, ownership of the school passed to Col. Willis Brown and Albert M. Jackson w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
