Wade, Houston

Michel Branamour Meynard, Indian trader, entrepreneur and founder of the Galveston City company, was born near Montreal, Quebec, on December 5, 1805. He became a fur trader, working his way south from Detroit to Missouri, trading with the Shawnee and other Indian tribes. He later traded horses and mules for manufactured goods and built and operated a sawmill . He organized the Galveston Company in 1838 and represented Galveston in the fifth Congress in 1840-41.

From the guide to the Wade biography of Michel B. Menard collection MS 189., 1938-1939, (Woodson Research Center, )