Hercules L. Dousman papers, 1808-1811, 1822-1903.

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

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Simon Cameron was born in Maytown, Pennsylvania in 1799, to Charles Cameron (d. January 16, 1814) and his wife Martha McLaughlin (d. abt. November 10, 1830). Cameron was the third of five sons; and had three younger sisters. One story claimed that Cameron was orphaned at nine, and later apprenticed to a printer, Andrew Kennedy, editor of the Northumberland Gazette before entering the field of journalism. If Cameron were apprenticed to Kennedy at age nine (~1808) for a then-standard period of ...

Ramsey, Alexander, 1815-1903

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U.S. secretary of war, U.S. senator and governor of Minnesota, governor of Minnesota, U.S. representative from Pennsylvania, mayor of St. Paul, Minn., banker, and lawyer. From the description of Letter and portraits of Alexander Ramsey, 1838. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449469 ...

Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1848-1886.

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Pierre Chouteau Jr. & Company

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Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Company, a St. Louis, Missouri-based fur trading company, was formed through the purchase of the assets of the American Fur Company's Western Department, in 1834 by Bernard Pratte and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. The new firm operated as Pratte, Chouteau and Company, but in 1838, Pratte retired, Chouteau gained control and the firm operated for the remainder of its existence under his name. The firm, however, continued to be known as the American Fur Company throughout its opera...

Drake, Elias Franklin, 1813-1892

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Elias Franklin Drake was a railroad president and businessman in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was born in Ohio, where he worked for a bank and as a lawyer, and served on the Ohio legislature for three terms. He moved to Minnesota in 1862, and was made president of the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad in 1864. He was engaged in a variety of enterprises, including flour mills, lumbering, stone quarries, coal mines, sugar mills, farming, horse breeding, and real estate. Active in Republican politics, ...

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...

Milwaukee and Prairie du Chien Railway Company.

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Minnesota Valley Railroad Company

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St. Paul Gas Light Company.

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Sibley, Henry Hastings, 1811-1891

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American pioneer; first Governor of Minnesota. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Washington, to William L. Marcy, 1853 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270664016 Fur trader; soldier; politician; Governor of Minnesota, 1850-1860. From the description of Papers, 1815-1830. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998041 Henry Sibley was a general in the Confederate Army. From the de...

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...

Prairie du Chien, Hudson, and St. Paul Packet Company.

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Dousman, Hercules L. (Hercules Louis), 1800-1868

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Wealthy Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, fur trader and regional investor. Born on Mackinac Island in 1800 and educated in New Jersey, Dousman worked at a New York mercantile house as a clerk and with his father at Mackinac before coming in 1826 to Prairie du Chien. There Dousman worked as an agent of the American Fur Company in partnership with Joseph Rolette (whose widow, Jane Fisher Rolette, Dousman married in 1844). In 1834, Dousman, Rolette, and H.H. Sibley became stock...

St. Paul & Sioux City Railroad Company.

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North Western Union Packet Company.

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