Biographical and genealogical data on Ramsay Crooks and family, undated, 1830, and 1835 /compiled by Margaret F. Plunkett and Marie Crooks Just.

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Biographical and genealogical data on Ramsay Crooks and family, undated, 1830, and 1835 /compiled by Margaret F. Plunkett and Marie Crooks Just.

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Biographical and genealogical data relating to Ramsay Crooks, a fur trader and president of the American Fur Company, which operated in Minnesota, and to his wife, Emilie Pratte Crooks, and the Crooks family. Includes copies of Ramsay Crooks' 1825 marriage certificate and his daughter Emelia Crooks' 1826 baptism certificate, his 1830 citizenship certificate, and a letter (1835) to the directors of the Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company in response to their resolution of appreciation after Crooks' retirement as president.

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Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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American Fur Company

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Fur trading company in the American West. From the description of Papers, 1835-1840. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497429 Chartered by John Astor in 1808. Astor withdrew his interest in 1834 and in 1864 the company was sold to the North Western Fur Company. From the description of American Fur Company records, 1803-1849. (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 56975212 No information is available on Livingstone, except as noted above. Franchere...

Plunkett, Margaret L.

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Just, Marie Crooks,

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Crooks family.

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Crooks, Marianne Pelagie Emilie Pratte, 1806-1863.

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Mohawk and Hudson Rail Road Company

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Crooks, Ramsay, 1787-1859

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Born at Greenock, Scotland, Jan. 2, 1787, and emigrated to Montreal at the age of 16. Entered the employ of a fur trader, Robert Dickson, at Mackinac, but soon, in 1806, moved on to St. Louis and formal partnership with Robert McClellan for trade on the upper Missouri. In 1810 the partnership was dissolved, Crooks returned to Canada, and there joined the recruits for the proposed overland journey to Astoria. He became a partner in Astor's Pacific Fur Company, but after a disheartening journey re...