Chisholm, Jesse, Papers, 1859-1880, 1928

Chisholm, Jesse

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Indian trader, guide, and interpreter Jesse Chisholm (1805?-1868) was born in the Hiawassee region of Tennessee. His father, Ignatius Chisholm, was a merchant and slave trader of Scottish ancestry, who married a Cherokee woman with whom he produced three sons, of which Jesse was the eldest. After the couple separated, he married Eliza Edwards, the daughter of a trader in Hughes County, Oklahoma, with whom he had several children, including William E. Chisholm. Chisholm t...

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Chisholm, William E., 1837-1880

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Indian trader, guide, and interpreter Jesse Chisholm (1805?–1868) was born in the Hiawassee region of Tennessee. His father, Ignatius Chisholm, was a merchant and slave trader of Scottish ancestry, who married a Cherokee woman with whom he produced three sons, of which Jesse was the eldest. After the, couple separated, Jesse’s mother took him to Arkansas in 1810. During the late 1820s, he moved to the Cherokee Nation and settled near Fort Gibson in what is now eastern Oklahoma. In 1...