 Today is the birthday of Gus Williams (Gustave Wilhelm Leweck, Jr., 1848, 1915). Born in the vicinity of New York’s Bowery, young Leweck went west as a teenager seeking his fortune and only got as far as Indiana, where he became a farmhand. At age 14 he joined yhe Union army and wound up […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:18AM on July 9, 2014