1st of 4 children of WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD & REBECCA BANKSON
Occupation: Farmer
Married: Jan 16, 1859, ALICE LILLIAN WALKER, North Amherst, Loraine Co., Ohio
Three children:
1. Loren A. WAKEFIELD
1859 - 1908
2. Leonard Alverton "Baby Len" WAKEFIELD
1861 - 1862
3. B. Leon WAKEFIELD
1871 - 1872
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Alanson is noted in newspapers and books as one of the most successful gamblers of the Missouri and Mississippi River. He was indicted for perjury and sentenced to prison, but not long into that sentence he was deemed insane and sent to the Asylum and spent his remaining 20 years locked up.
In the 1900 Shannon, Atchison Co, Kansas, census, he is an inmate in G.W. Wells Private Insane Asylum.
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Source: Newspapers.com; there is also space given to him and the situation in Good Order and Safety, A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, by Allen E Wagner. The Wages of Sin article was obviously not written by a fan :).
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Contributed by Laurie Burgess
Occupation: Farmer
Married: Jan 16, 1859, ALICE LILLIAN WALKER, North Amherst, Loraine Co., Ohio
Three children:
1. Loren A. WAKEFIELD
1859 - 1908
2. Leonard Alverton "Baby Len" WAKEFIELD
1861 - 1862
3. B. Leon WAKEFIELD
1871 - 1872
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Alanson is noted in newspapers and books as one of the most successful gamblers of the Missouri and Mississippi River. He was indicted for perjury and sentenced to prison, but not long into that sentence he was deemed insane and sent to the Asylum and spent his remaining 20 years locked up.
In the 1900 Shannon, Atchison Co, Kansas, census, he is an inmate in G.W. Wells Private Insane Asylum.
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Source: Newspapers.com; there is also space given to him and the situation in Good Order and Safety, A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, by Allen E Wagner. The Wages of Sin article was obviously not written by a fan :).
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Contributed by Laurie Burgess
1st of 4 children of WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD & REBECCA BANKSON
Occupation: Farmer
Married: Jan 16, 1859, ALICE LILLIAN WALKER, North Amherst, Loraine Co., Ohio
Three children:
1. Loren A. WAKEFIELD
1859 - 1908
2. Leonard Alverton "Baby Len" WAKEFIELD
1861 - 1862
3. B. Leon WAKEFIELD
1871 - 1872
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Alanson is noted in newspapers and books as one of the most successful gamblers of the Missouri and Mississippi River. He was indicted for perjury and sentenced to prison, but not long into that sentence he was deemed insane and sent to the Asylum and spent his remaining 20 years locked up.
In the 1900 Shannon, Atchison Co, Kansas, census, he is an inmate in G.W. Wells Private Insane Asylum.
============================
Source: Newspapers.com; there is also space given to him and the situation in Good Order and Safety, A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, by Allen E Wagner. The Wages of Sin article was obviously not written by a fan :).
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Contributed by Laurie Burgess
Occupation: Farmer
Married: Jan 16, 1859, ALICE LILLIAN WALKER, North Amherst, Loraine Co., Ohio
Three children:
1. Loren A. WAKEFIELD
1859 - 1908
2. Leonard Alverton "Baby Len" WAKEFIELD
1861 - 1862
3. B. Leon WAKEFIELD
1871 - 1872
============================
Alanson is noted in newspapers and books as one of the most successful gamblers of the Missouri and Mississippi River. He was indicted for perjury and sentenced to prison, but not long into that sentence he was deemed insane and sent to the Asylum and spent his remaining 20 years locked up.
In the 1900 Shannon, Atchison Co, Kansas, census, he is an inmate in G.W. Wells Private Insane Asylum.
============================
Source: Newspapers.com; there is also space given to him and the situation in Good Order and Safety, A History of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, by Allen E Wagner. The Wages of Sin article was obviously not written by a fan :).
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Contributed by Laurie Burgess
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