james eads is a recognize a remarkable person who came to st. louis when his mother brought him here. they came on a river boat that caught fire before it reached the war of. the stack fell and sent embers all over the boat and it caught fire and proceeded to sink. they had to come through the mississippi to the last few yards to get here. they lost everything and james eads grew up on and in this river. at a very young age, he had to help provide for his family. james decided at age 16 he would try to work the river. so he got some jobs on river boats where he was a clerk, what they called a mud clerk. he kept the books. he went up and down the river on these boats that were transporting led to other communities all the way up to near wisconsin. he had a lot of experience as a teenager really, knowing what the river was about. at least from the topside and eventually he makes a decision in his life that he can do is advantagesalvage work. there were common occurrences that it would be hit by snags. the river boat pilot cannot see the trees or l

second ward at a farmer's market, forces supporting the union showed up and who got up to speak that james eads know later on from building the ironclads ulysses s. grant used in the mississippi and building the bridge, he got up and spoke to the crowd and said when i kept my eyes on my countrymen and see among them so many of our adoptive citizens rallying to the standard of the public. when i reflect that among those who are now plotting their country's ruin, there's not one of foreign birth involved in their ranks. i feel alternating motions of gratitude and shame, gratitude to them for their devotion to the flag of their country, trained to think to none but americans, native-born americans, the long as the dishonor of humiliating that emblem of our nation's glory. i thank god our adopted citizens have by unanimous sentiment of devotion to the union's been able to lead minister by their example of something so severe and merited to those ungrateful men on laboring to defile their banner under his protecting shade they first inherited this a prettier of liberty and the immediate effects of w

james eads is a recognize a remarkable person who came to st. louis when

one of my personal favorites is james eads, who built the eads bridge. he taught himself from age 13 onward how to form structures and that sort of thing. and he basically taught himself how to build a stable tableting machine. he would go down and salvage these and sell them, so the eads bridge was significant because the time it was the longest arched bridge in the world at over 6000 feet long, and people were kind of terrified of it. they really did not have a lot of faith in it. today we think steel is very strong. they thought it looked like a skeleton and was ready to fall over at any time under its own weight, so eads was really impressive to me just because of a national story associate with him but also the fact that he taught himself how to become an engineer. gerty cori is one of our selections. she came from prague with her family. her husband got a job, and even though she had the same qualifications as him, she did not. she was made a research assistant and given a salary 1/10 of his. together, they figured out how life agenda is absorbed b

one of my personal favorites is james eads, who built the eads bridge. he taught himself from age 13 onward out to copulate structures and that sort of thing. forme basically -- how to structures and that sort of thing. and he basically taught himself how to build a stable tableting machine. he would go down and salvage these and sell them, so the eads bridge was significant because the time it was the longest arched bridge in the world at over 6000 feet long, and people were kind of terrified of it. they really did not have a lot of faith in it. today we think steel is very strong. they thought it looked like a skeleton and was ready to fall over at any time under its own weight, so eads was really impressive to me just because of a national story associate with him but also the fact that he taught himself how to become an engineer. gerty cori is one of our selections. she came from prague with her family. her husband got a job, and even though she had the same qualifications as him, she did not. she was made a research assistant and given a salary 1/10