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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. His father was Jean Pierre Chouteau, one of the first
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Auguste Chouteau; Jean-Pierre Chouteau; William Christian (Virginia politician) Alonzo Church (college president) Benjamin Church (physician) John Barker Church; Thomas James Churchill; Thomas Claiborne (1780–1856) Jacques Clamorgan; Newman Haynes Clanton; Jeremiah Watkins Clapp; George Rogers Clark; James West Clark; John Clark (Georgia ...
The earliest St. Louis historian, Wilson Primm, dismissed the story of Auguste Chouteau. According to him, Auguste Chouteau's role in the founding is based only on his testimony in an 1820s land dispute, and on an unsigned manuscript "Journal" attributed to him in 1857, when his surviving son, Gabriel Chouteau, announced finding it. [citation ...
It was reorganized in 1838 as Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company and continued until it dissolved in 1864. [4] In 1847 Pierre and his brother Auguste established Fort Benton in present-day Chouteau County, Montana as the last fur trading post on the Upper Missouri River. In the early days, the Chouteau interests supplied pelts for the beaver hat ...