EDWARD F. REGENHARDT

Biographical Research

 DATE:  8 Aug 1891
SLUG:  Bio
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED:  1983

      Ed Regenhardt is taking music lessons up at the College.

He will graduate in about two weeks from now.

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FROM:  St. Louis City Hall Marriage Records Vol. 34, Pg. 37.

EDWARD F. REGENHARDT AND ALOINE THEUERKAUF

     - married 9 Sep 1891
     - by Rev. Chas T. McDaniel
     - at St. Marks Lutheran Church
         Southwest corner Bell and Cardinal Streets
     - he is listed as being from Cape, she from St. Louis
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DATE: 12 Sep 1891

SLUG: Bio/Marriage License
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED:  1983

     Marriage License was granted in St. Louis last Monday to Edward Regenhardt and Miss Alvina Theuerkauf, daughter of the lateWm Theuerkauf of this city.  When Mr. Regenhardt returns home he will be bringing with him as his bride one of Cape's fair daughters who is an accomplished young lady.  The Democrat wishes the happy pair a world of enjoyment and a long life of happiness.
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DATE:  19 Sep 1891
SLUG:  Bio
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     TUESDAY:  Ed Regenhardt has rented the 2nd story in the Stratman house on Spanish St. and will go to housekeeping in a few days.
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DATE: 2 Jan 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER: WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL. 3
LOCATED: 1983

     Ed F. Regenhardt and Charles Bode have formed a co-partnership under the firm name of Regenhardt & Bode, Contractors for Brick Work.  They have fitted up an office in a room over Burgess' Store on Main Street <see photo> where they will give careful attention to calls for estimates on brick work of any kind.  They are both first class mechanics, and we cheerfully recommend them to all in need of brick work of any description.
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DATE: 30 Jan 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     Regenhardt and Bode, contractors for brick work, are now ready to make estimates and contract for work.  They have an office over Burgess' Store on Main St., where they would be pleased to have their friends and those contemplating building call on them. _________________________________________________________________

DATE: 19 Mar 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL. 3
LOCATED:  1983

     Ed Regenhardt pulled down the big smoke stack at the ruins of the Lorimier Mills this morning (Thursday, 3/17/92).  He took it down whole and without making a dent in it.     Otto Buekrmann from Fayetteville, Arkansas owned the mills, destroyed by fire previous Saturday night (3/19/92).
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DATE: 9 Apr 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL.  2
LOCATED:  1983

     Ed Regenhardt is putting down a granitoid pavement in front of the First National Bank.
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DATE: 25 June 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL. 2
LOCATED:  1983

     Ed Regenhardt went down to Malden this afternoon to put in a bid for the brick work on the bank building that is to be put up there.
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DATE: 17 Sep 1892
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL.  1
LOCATED:  1983

     E.F. Regenhardt is building a brick house for Herman Muellerin Jackson, and his partner, Chas. Bode. will go to Sikeston in a few days to build a brick house in that town.
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DATE:  21 Jan 1893
SLUG:  Bio
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG.  3  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983 

     Ed Regenhardt is going to move up on Sprigg St.
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DATE: 25 Feb 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL. 2
LOCATED:  1983

     As soon as weather will permit Ed Regenhardt will make granitoid pavements in front of the new Sturdivant Bank building on both Main and Themis streets.  The walk on Themis Street will be the longest stretch of granitoid pavement in the city.
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DATE: 25 Mar 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     The granitoid curbing for the sidewalk around the Sturdivant Bank was delivered yesterday (Monday 3/20).

     The granite curbing being put down around the Sturdivant Bank building will be there long after the present generations of our citizens are under the sod.
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DATE: 27 May 1893
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 2
LOCATED:  1983

     Ed Regenhardt is putting in granitoid steps for the Sturdivant Bank. <Building now houses Cape Wiggery store-steps are still there.
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DATE: 3 June 1893
SLUG: Bio
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 3 COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     Ed Regenhardt is making a granitoid pavement in front of Dr.S.S. Harris's property on Themis street.  When this job of work is done Themis Street will have the longest stretch of granitoid pavement in the city. <2nd house on south side of Themis west of the courthouse (Al Spradling Jr.)
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DATE:  27 Oct 1894
SLUG:  Bio
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

      E.F. Regenhardt returned home from Poplar Bluff.  Ed says he has no notion of moving to the Bluff.
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DATE: Aug 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 6  COL. 1
LOCATED: 1 Aug 1983

     The contract for repairing the Meriweather Street sewer was awarded to E.F. Regenhardt by the Council.
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DATE: 5 Oct 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     E. F. Regenhardt is putting in some granitoid pavement for Wilson Cramer at Jackson.
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DATE: 23 Nov 1895
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 2
LOCATED:  1 Aug 1983    

     Ed Regenhardt came in from Greenville, Wayne County, Saturday night.  Mr. R. has the contract to build a big business house at Greenville and he will have work for a force of hands there for several months. _________________________________________________________________

DATE: 16 Oct 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 1
LOCATED:  25 July 1983

     Ed Regenhardt was awarded the contract for the granitoid walks in the Normal grounds.  The contract was for 800 yards, more or less.
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DATE: 30 Oct 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 2
LOCATED:  1983

     E. F. Regenhardt is down at Kennett this week building some flues in the stone railroad depot building he completed a few weeks ago for the Kennett Railroad Company.
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DATE: 6 Nov 1897
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 4 
LOCATED:  1983

     E. F. Regenhardt will begin work on the granitoid walks up at the Normal next month.
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DATE: 27 Aug 1898
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED:  25 July 1983

     E. F. Regenhardt, who has the contract to build a big schoolhouse in Bonne Terre, came down Saturday to get some hands to work.
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DATE: 11 July 1903
SLUG: Bio/Construction
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 2
LOCATED:  Aug 1983

     E. F. Regenhardt has the contract to build the new building for the new ice plant.
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DATE: 29 Aug 1903
SLUG: Bio/Construction/Academic Hall
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
LOCATED:  1983
PG. 5  COL. 1 :

     The contract let to Temple and Slavick for plumbing the Normal building was the biggest plumbing contract ever let in S.E.Missouri.

PG. 5  COL. 2 :

     E. F. Regenhardt says he will begin clearing the ground for
the new Normal within the next 5 or 6 days <from Monday 4/27/03>.

     E. T. Maule and son, E. P., came down on the Chester this morning (Wed 4/29/03).  Mr. Maule's son is associated with Mr.Regenhardt in the contract for the building of the new Normal structure.  Mr. Maule says we have an extra fine quality of stone here for building purposes.
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DATE: 17 Sep 1904
SLUG: Bio/Quarry
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 7  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     Mr. Regenhardt invited us to take a drive to the quarries west of the Normal Campus and there showed us a solid block of marble, nine and on half feet long, six and a half broad and four and a half thick, which contained 222 cubic feet of marble, weighing 21 tons.  This block was raised from the bottom of the fifty foot level and set down at the door of the mill ready to be placed under the saws.  This will be sawed into lintels 9' long, 22" broad and13" thick for the Academic Hall.  We expect to live to see the day  when a Missouri new State Capitol will be built from this quarry.
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DATE: 1 Jul 1905
SLUG: Bio/Quarry
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5  COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

     At Regenhardt's quarry Monday Mr. Regenhardt had some words with his engineer and the two came to blows.  Regenhardt, who is a powerful man, struck at the engineer, missed him, hit a piece of machinery and broke his right arm just above the wrist.  Dr. Ben Schultz bandaged the broken limb and Mr. Regenhardt will soon have the use of it again.
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DATE:  25 NOV 1905
SLUG:  ACADEMIC HALL
NEWSPAPER:  WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED:  1983

MONDAY:

     The new Academic Hall was not opened to the public Sunday as contemplated, on account of bad weather, but will be the first Sunday that the weather is fair and it is not so muddy.