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- April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
-Southeast Missourian Newspaper
- Postmaster - Cape Girardeau, Missouri:
Theodore R. Regenhardt Acting Postmaster 05/03/1957
Theodore R. Regenhardt Postmaster 05/28/1957
Russell J. Fowler Officer-In-Charge 04/03/1970
Russell J. Fowler Postmaster 03/20/1971
- THEODORE R. REGENHARDT
Biographical Research
DATE: 29 Dec 1900
NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
A thirteen pound boy. That was the Ed Regenhardt's Christmas
present this morning (12/26/00), and Ed is as happy as a boy with
his first pair of pants.
FROM: Record of Births - City of Cape Girardeau
454. NAME: Regenhardt, Theodore Rossevelt
LOCALITY: Sprigg St.
DATE: Dec. 26, 1900 Wednesday
RESIDENCE OF PARENTS: Sprigg St. - Cape
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN: J.D. Porterfield
Southeast Missourian - Out of the Past
Jan. 11, 1954
Figures released by County Collector Ted Regenhardt show county residents and corporations poured $1,097,488.11 into their school systems, county government and miscellaneous adjuncts in taxes they paid during final three months of 1953.
Dec. 5, 1955
Regenhardt Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau was the award winner for a $1,027,518 highway paving project in three parts of Madison County, Illinois.
July 6, 1956
Ted R. Regenhardt, former Cape Girardeau County collector of revenue, has been advanced to the eligible list for the Cape Girardeau postmastership; Regenhardt joins Kenneth Cruse and U.G. Pettigrew on the list of candidates.
March 4, 1957
WASHINGTON -- President Eisenhower nominates 172 postmasters; among the nominations sent to the Senate is that of Theodore R. Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau.
April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
May 4, 1957
Cape Girardeau's new postmaster, Ted R. Regenhardt, was officially sworn in and assumed his duties yesterday afternoon; he succeeds A.S. Reed, acting postmaster.
Aug. 15, 1957
The General Services Administration has notified Postmaster Ted Regenhardt that bids will be received in Kansas City on Aug. 29 for an old-fashioned, hand-fired coal furnace to be installed in the Cape Girardeau post office.
Sept. 25, 1957
Cape Girardeau County and postal officials say they will join efforts for an overpass for Hopper Road at the point where it now is proposed to sever the road into two sections without a connecting link by the planned interstate highway; Postmaster Ted Regenhardt says mail service into the area will be substantially hampered if there is no overpass.
Dec. 11, 1957
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces that bids for remodeling and repairing the Cape Girardeau post office from roof to basement, at a cost expected to be well in excess of $100,000, will be opened Dec. 27 in Kansas City.
March 29, 1958
A large highway contract and a smaller one, both in Illinois, will be started shortly by the combined Potashnick and Regenhardt firms of Cape Girardeau; the main job is to be in Jefferson County at Mount Vernon, and will be on highways 37 and 15; the project calls for 10 miles of right of way grading, bridges and concrete pavement.
Oct. 23, 1958
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces two highway post offices and two tractor-trailer trucks will expedite mail service in to and out of Cape Girardeau upon cessation of service by Frisco night passenger trains; the rolling post offices will operate out ofSt. Louis and Memphis, Tenn, meeting at Sikeston, Mo.; the tractor-trailer trucks will move between the two large cities, receiving pouches at the various stops on the way.
April 21, 1959
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt has been notified by the General Services Administration that budgetary limitations will delay installation of air conditioning in the post office at Cape Girardeau.
April 2, 1970
Retired as Postmaster (date from Alice Regenhardt Lewis 27 July 2011)
- Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt 101 S. West End Blvd. Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Date of Birth Dec. 26, 1900. Application for Postmaster
No. 5
Recommend purchase of all supplies
I believe an explanation is necessary here as to why I an listing work in the canal zone and in the States under item no 5. 1 spent a part of both years in the canal zone and apart in the states. The work I performed both years in the canal zone as of a similar nature, as was the work I did in the states which was as follows:
Was superintendent of all materials which went into the construction of prisoner of war camps. Supervised at the peak employment load approximately 300 men. Was responsible for the securing of materials, unloading saw yard, loading and hauling to job sites. Worked with Army Engineers in securing materials.
No. 6
Jan 1938 to Nov. 1941 Superintendent of Construction
Wm. McK. Regenhardt, Vice Pres.
Lexington, Ky.
Regenhardt Construction Co. Construction Co.
H & H Building, Cape Girardeau
4 Foremen, 4 mechanics, timekeeper, bookkeeper. Offered better job.
Supervised the construction of concrete highways and earth levees. Purchased materials and supplies. Assisted in making up bids on jobs.
ACTIVITIES
Red Cross County Chairman 1 year
Official Church Board 15 years
Old McKendree Church board of Trustees 5 years
Southeast Missouri Hospital Board of Trustees 1 year
Civil Defense Welfare Director 3 years
Masonic Lodge 32 years
Scottish Rite 6 years
Shrine 6 years
March 1947 to March 7, 1955 County Collector
Collection of taxes for the State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau and The Little River Drainage District. Directly responsible for the collecting and disbursement of monies in the average amount per year of $ 1,100,000.00 to the various political subdivisions.
1946 Campaigned for the office of County Collector
1945, Jan. 11, Discharged from Navy and re-employed by McCarthy Bros. Constructions Co. as a superintendent of Levee Construction.
1943 Nov, to Jan 11, 1955 Naval Reserve in engineer corps, Boot camp, Camp Peary Virginia. To New York 30 days Stevedore school, ordered after completion of school to Hawaii, attached to 20th stevedore regiment,
1941 Dec. 9 to Nov. 1943 Employed by McCarthy Bros. Construction Co. in Panama Canal Zone as Superintendent of Construction, France Field Airport, roads, powder magazines. Employed in the states as foreman of materials in the construction of prisoner of war camps.
1938 1941 Employed by Regenhardt Const. Co. as Superintendent in the construction of roads and levees.
1935 1938 Bought newspaper distributing agency Cairo, Ill. and worked for the city of Cairo, building streets.
1921 1935 Started with father in the paving construction business at Poplar Bluff, MO
1920 Sept to 1921 May School State College Cape Girardeau, Mo.
1919 June to 1920 Aug. Worked in Detroit, Michigan making tires U.S. Tires Co. and on Bldg. Construction
1914 to 1919 Worked after school and on Saturday at the Cape
Girardeau Republican which was changed to the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. Had charge of carrier boys and mailing room
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1900 - 1974 (73 years)
