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Auguste Chouteau was the only child of Marie-Thérèse and René, born in either September 1749 or September 1750. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] René purportedly abused Marie-Thérèse, and abandoned her and René, so she returned to her pre-matrimonial home, which some scholars say was the convent and others say was her step-father's and mother's house.
Auguste Pierre Chouteau (9 May 1786 – 25 December 1838) was a member of the Chouteau fur-trading family who established trading posts in what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Chouteau was born in St. Louis , then part of Spanish colonial Upper Louisiana .
Given his desire for peace with the Osage, Carondelet accepted Chouteau's proposal. According to the terms of the agreement between Chouteau and Carondelet, Chouteau received $2,000 annually to support twenty soldiers at the fort and a six-year monopoly on trade with the Osage, unless the Spanish government itself supplied the soldiers (in which case, Chouteau would receive the monopoly but no ...
Auguste Pierre Chouteau (1786-1838), founder of posts in Oklahoma and Chouteau, Oklahoma Emilie Sophie Chouteau (1813-1874), wife of Nicolas DeMenil and owner of Chatillon-DeMenil House Pierre Chouteau Jr. , nicknamed 'Cadet', (1789-1865), founder of posts on Upper Missouri River, including Fort Pierre and Chouteau County, Montana , and partner ...
Auguste Chouteau (c. 1750 –1829), co-founder of the city of St. Louis, at the time of his death he owned 36 enslaved people. [70] Pierre Chouteau (1758–1849), half-brother of Auguste Chouteau and defendant in a freedom suit by Marguerite Scypion. [71] Cicero (106–43 BCE), Roman statesman and philosopher. He enslaved at least four people ...
At the age of 15, on September 20, 1748, Marie-Therèse married René Auguste Chouteau, Sr., an older tavern keeper and baker. Her family had arranged it, and believed it would be good, given their daughter's limited prospects. According to commonly accepted histories, René deserted her after she gave birth to René Auguste Chouteau, Jr., in ...
Chouteau's Pond, St. Louis, 1856. In 1770, Laclède entered into a contract with the Spanish government to supply bread to visiting Native Americans. After his death, the property was sold to Auguste Chouteau. [3] Chouteau's grist mill was located along the creek south of present-day Clark Street. [5] Chouteau's Pond was a local attraction.
The Auguste Chouteau Mansion was originally constructed in 1764 by Maxent, Laclède & Company for use as a hybrid residential dwelling and trading post [4] Laclède himself arrived in April 1764 to inspect the site, at which point he named the village St. Louis and provided detailed plans for laying out streets and for construction of his ...