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The distillery at Fort Union effectively ended the career of the American Fur Company's best field trader, Kenneth McKenzie; he was fired. [6] In 1834, John Jacob Astor retired, and sold the western division of American Fur to Pierre Chouteau, Jr., who had been Astor's St. Louis agent since 1827. [7]
The company was founded in 1821, when the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company merged, and a large number of fur traders found themselves out of job. The founders, Joseph Renville, Kenneth McKenzie, William Laidlaw and Daniel Lamont were all British subjects, so they arranged for the company's activities to be officially carried out by William P. Tilton & Co., a New York company ...
Pages in category "American Fur Company people" ... Kenneth McKenzie (fur trader) Martin McLeod; Michel Branamour Menard; William Morrison (trader) P. Jerry Potts; R.
Pierre Chouteau followed in the family footsteps by starting a trade with the Osage tribe at age 15. He also operated lead mines around Dubuque, Iowa until the War of 1812 . [ 3 ] Chouteau was a member of Bernard Pratte and Company, the Western agent for John Jacob Astor 's American Fur Company in 1827.
Forbes estimates Scott’s net worth at $31.6 billion as of Thursday, and she’s continued selling off the shares of Amazon stock she acquired in her divorce from Bezos in 2023.
Pages in category "Canadian fur traders" ... Kenneth McKenzie (fur trader) Donald McLean (fur trader) John McLean (explorer) Alexander Roderick McLeod;
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MacKenzie Scott continues to sell billions of dollars in Amazon stock. In 2023, she unloaded nearly 65.3 million shares of Amazon, currently worth more than $10 billion, according to a filing.