Wade biography of Michel B.Menard collection 1938-1939

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Wade biography of Michel B.Menard collection 1938-1939

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This collection consistsof a biography written by Houston Wade about Michel B. Menard, founder ofGalveston. Included are newsclippings about Menard, other Texas personalities,and correspondence to Mr. Wade regarding the Menard family history.

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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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 ...