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Robert Emmet Odlum (August 31, 1851 – May 19, 1885) was an American swimming instructor. Odlum was the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, and...

the Brooklyn Bridge. The first person was Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, on May 19, 1885. He struck the water...

industrialist George Odlum (1934–2003), Saint Lucian politician Jon Odlum (1936–2013), Saint Lucian politician Robert Emmet Odlum (1851–1885), American...

cultural events such as a swimming exhibition given by the daredevil Robert Emmet Odlum in the summer of 1878, seven years before his death at the Brooklyn...

Very few issues survive. On May 19, 1885, Charlotte Smith's brother, Robert Emmet Odlum, a swimming instructor, decided to jump from the Brooklyn Bridge to...

McNamara, Robert. "John L. Sullivan". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 7 August 2019. Odlum, Catherine (1885). The Life and Adventures of Prof. Robert Emmet Odlum, Containing...

instructor from Washington, D.C. named Robert Emmet Odlum, the brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, was killed while attempting the...

of a party of gentlemen entertained by Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, on the morning of May 19, 1885, the...

– Jonathan Young, United States Navy commodore (b. 1826) May 19 – Robert Emmet Odlum, American swimming instructor (died as result of becoming the first...

Brooklyn Bridge of Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith. Catherine Odlum, mother of Robert and Charlotte, blamed...

looking at a candle beside her deathbed "Am I spitting blood?" — Robert Emmet Odlum, American swimming instructor (19 May 1885), after being fatally injured...

of a party of gentlemen entertained by Robert Emmet Odlum, brother of women's rights activist Charlotte Odlum Smith, on the morning of May 19, 1885, the...

Karski John J. O'Connor (1904–1978), American historian and educator Robert Emmet Odlum (1851–1885), first person to jump from Brooklyn Bridge Henry T. Oxnard...

professional gambler who had fallen unto debt. In 1885, daredevil Robert Emmet Odlum jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, and was killed doing so. Brodie took...

May 17 – Jonathan Young, U.S. Navy commodore (born 1826) May 19 – Robert Emmet Odlum, swimming instructor, dies as result of becoming the first person...

York Times, p. 1, May 20, 1880 Catherine Odlum (1885), The Life and Adventures of Prof. Robert Emmet Odlum, Containing an Account of his Splendid Natatorium...

first to successfully leap from it. In May 1886, swimming instructor Robert Emmet Odlum died in an attempt to prove the harmlessness of falling long distances...

Biscuits, Bewley's, Beamish and Crawford, Jameson's Whiskey, W. P. & R. Odlum, Cleeve's, R&H Hall, Maguire & Patterson, Dockrell's, Arnott's, Goulding...

Congressman Robert C. McEwen, United States Representative John Mosher, writer and film critic Audrey Munson, artist's model and film actress Robert Odlum, first...

March 1964 for scrapping. Rear Admiral Robert C. Lee and his family holidayed aboard Brazil in 1938. Hortense Odlum, President of Bonwit Teller, sailed on...