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2. Louis Auguste Benoist - Wikipedia

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   L. A. Benoist, 1848. Louis Auguste Benoist (1803–1867) was an American pioneer banker and financier.. He was born August 13, 1803, in St. Louis, Missouri, then a French settlement in Louisiana, and soon to become a possession of the United States under the Louisiana Purchase.

3. Missouri Historical Society - Wikipedia

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   The Missouri Historical Society was founded in St. Louis on August 11, 1866. [1] Founding members created the historical society "for the purpose of saving from oblivion the early history of the city and state". [2] [3]

4. Desloge family - Wikipedia

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   The Desloge family, (/ d ə ˈ l oʊ ʒ /) [1] centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis, [2] rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land ...

5. History of St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   By 1824 and 1825, however, St. Louis businesses began to recover, largely due to the introduction of the steamboat; the first to arrive in St. Louis, the Zebulon M. Pike, docked on August 2, 1817. [ 61 ] [ 62 ] Rapids north of the city made St. Louis the northernmost navigable port for many large riverboats, and the Pike and other ships soon ...

6. History of Missouri - Wikipedia

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   Democratic papers rallied to Thomas Hart Benton, including the St. Louis Union and the Jefferson City Enquirer. The Hannibal Journal, which employed Samuel Clemens as a typesetter. The St. Louis Observer, which was the press of Elijah Lovejoy, an early abolitionist. [92] A few primarily St. Louis-based papers printed in German or French.

7. History of the Jews in St. Louis - Wikipedia

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   By 1905 the Jews of St. Louis numbered about 40,000 in a total population of about 575,000. Today's Jewish population in the St. Louis area exceeds 60,000 in a metropolitan population of about 3,000,000 people. [6] St. Louis County, MO holds nearly all of Missouri's Jewish community. 7% of St. Louis County's population is Jewish.