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John Henry Weber was born in the town of Altona, then ruled by the King of Denmark as the Duke of Holstein and now a borough of Hamburg in Germany.Weber immigrated in 1807 to the United States where he was hired by the United States Army Ordnance Department to keep records for the government-owned lead mines in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri.
Portrait in A Narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner, by Edwin James, London, 1830. John Tanner (c. 1780 – c. 1846), known also by his Ojibwe name Shaw-shaw-wa-ne-ba-se ("The Falcon", Zhaashaawanibiisi in modern spelling), [a] was captured by Odawa Indians as a child after his family had homesteaded on the Ohio River in present-day Kentucky.
There's no space between the"OU" and the "WIYTÉ" words on the inscription they form only one word "OUWIYTÉ" reading in French pronunciation "Uweetah" or "Uintah" closest spelling in English writing. It also make sense as the Uintah River is the closest affluent on the green River ("RV. VERT" on the inscription).
The site is located on a 20-hectare (50-acre) parcel immediately north of the Chemical Abstracts Service campus along the banks of the Olentangy River. The research park creation and development has been led by Professor William J. Mitsch, who received the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize, partially because of his development of this research park.
Trappers are paid by the government of Ontario to harvest the castor sacs of beavers and are paid from 10 to 40 dollars per dry pound when sold to the Northern Ontario Fur Trappers Association. [citation needed] In the early 1900s, muskrat glands were used in making perfume, or women just crushed the glands and rubbed them onto their body.
Despite the common name, the Ohio shrimp is not generally found in the Ohio River anymore. Until the 1930s, it was common in the Ohio River, with the type specimen having been taken at Cannelton, Indiana , and its range in the Mississippi River extended as far north as St. Louis, Missouri .
Growing competition motivated the trappers to explore and head deeper into the wilderness. This led to greater knowledge of the topography and to great reductions in the beaver populations. Eventually the intense competition for fewer and fewer beavers and the transient style of fur hats brought the Rocky Mountain Fur Company down.
University Hall was the first building on campus, built in 1873 and reconstructed in 1976. The proposal of a manufacturing and agriculture university in central Ohio was initially met in the 1870s with hostility from the state's agricultural interests and competition for resources from Ohio University, which was chartered by the Northwest Ordinance and Miami University. [8]