Louis Weiss is a successful businessman and a friend of Mayor Bowman.

St. Peter's Cemetery established at 34th and State.

Missouri Car and Foundry relocates from St. Louis due to the cheapness of coal and moves into the abandoned machine shops of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.

St. Louis Bolt and Iron moves to East St. Louis for the same reason.

It is predicted that the city of St. Louis win grow to a million and the population of East St. Louis will grow to 250,000.

The following railroads are in existence in 1876, the centennial year of the United States: Chicago & Alton, Jacksonville, Alton & St. Louis, Indianapolis & St. Louis, Toledo, Wabash & Western, Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis, St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute, Ohio & Mississippi, Cairo & St. Louis, East St. Louis & Carondelet, Illinois & St. Louis, Union Railway & Transit.

East St. Louisans celebrate the centennial of the Declaration of Independence. Many of them go to a church on Kaskaskia Island to attend special ceremonies and hear the pealing of the "Liberty Bell of the West." This is a bell given to the French by King Louis XV and rung when George Rogers Clark freed the area from British rule when he captured Kaskaskia in 1778.