Landing After Hours: Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age

Name: Landing After Hours: Sudden Deaths in St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age
Start: 2025-03-05T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-03-05T20:00:00-06:00
Location: Jefferson Landing State Historic Site

Schedule

Wed Mar 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Jefferson Landing State Historic Site | Jefferson City, MO

The Missouri State Museum's "Landing After Hours" program, is held the first Wednesday of each month at the Jefferson Landing State Historic Site,100 Jefferson Street. Join us in-person or via Facebook Live.
Doors open at 6:30 and the program starts at 7 p.m. Convenient parking is available in the lot next to the Lohman Building (100 Jefferson St.).
Join us on March 5th for "Sudden Death In St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age". The scene of myriad grisly deaths, late 19th-century St. Louis was a hotbed for homicide, suicide, alcoholism, abortion and workplace accidents. This program will be presented by Columbia College associate professor Dr. Sarah Lirley, who specializes in the history of women and gender, 19th century history, and the history of death and death investigations. In her new book, Lirley shines a light on the Gilded Age coroners who investigated the causes of these deaths, finding that their rulings varied drastically depending on who conducted them. The talk will feature an excerpt from a chapter about the unexpected suicide of a well-known and respected St. Louis woman, Estelle Johnson. Investigations into deaths by suicide varied by coroner and along lines of race, class and gender, as Lirley will explain.

This program is free and open to the public, no reservations are required. For more information please call 573-751-4127.
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Image: Book cover "Sudden Deaths In St. Louis: Coroner Bias in the Gilded Age" by Sarah E. Lirley. Published by the Southern Illinois University Press, 2024.