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Dorus received his nickname Grandpa (Dutch: Opa) while still a young man: he had married Neeltje Huisman, a fisherman's widow who already had six children.Shortly after the marriage, the oldest of Neeltje's daughters had a child of her own, and so at only 23 years old Dorus became known as "Opa" in Den Helder where he lived.
Monsanto's daughter Olga Méndez Monsanto (1871–1938) was married to John Francis Queeny (1859–1933) of St. Louis, Missouri, who founded the Monsanto Chemical Company, naming it after his wife. [12]
According to 2021 US Census data, 3,083,041 [1] Americans self-reported to be of (partial) Dutch ancestry, while 884,857 [2] Americans claimed full Dutch heritage. 2,969,407 Dutch Americans were native born in 2021, while 113,634 Dutch Americans were foreign-born, of which 61.5% was born in Europe and 62,9% entered the United States before 2000.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Location of Buchanan County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Buchanan County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The Genesis of Missouri: From Wilderness Outpost to Statehood (University of Missouri Press, 1989) Gardner, James A. "The Business Career of Moses Austin in Missouri, 1798-1821." Missouri Historical Review (1956) 50#3 pp 235–47. Gitlin, Jay. The bourgeois frontier: French towns, French traders, and American expansion (Yale University Press, 2009)
Walter Chrysler's father, Henry (Hank) Chrysler, was a Canadian, of German, English and Dutch ancestry. He was an American Civil War veteran who was a locomotive engineer for the Kansas Pacific Railway and its successor, the Union Pacific Railroad. [4] Walter's mother was born in Rocheport, Missouri, and was also of German ancestry. [5]
After Robidoux returned to St. Louis about 1823, he worked as a baker and confectioner. In 1826, he was hired by the American Fur Company to establish a trading post at the Blacksnake Hills (near the site on the Missouri River of present-day Saint Joseph, Missouri.) He remained their employee for four years, at the salary of $1,800 a year ...