Lou Blonger
Lou Blonger , born Louis Herbert Belonger, was a Wild West saloonkeeper, gamblinghouse owner, and mine speculator, but is best known as the kingpin of an extensive ring of confidence tricksters that operated for more thanyears in Denver, Colorado. His MillionDollar Bunco Ring was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923.
Lou Blonger was born in Swanton, Vermont, on May 13, 1849, the eighth ofchildren. His father, Simon Peter Belonger, was a stonemason born in Canada of French ancestry. His mother, Judith Kennedy, was raised in an orphanage in Nenagh, County Tipperary, Ireland. The Belonger family migrated from Vermont to the lead mining village of Shullsburg, Wisconsin, when Lou was five years old. After his mother died in 1859, Lou lived with his older sister and her husband for a few years. Around this time Blonger began using a shortened version of the family name , as most of his brothers did.
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