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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: DOTY'S TREATY OF 1841

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Early St. Louis. DOTY'S TREATY OF 1841. Its Debate in The Extra Globe. The Influence of Joshua Pilcher. A blog by P. Davidson-Peters. JD Doty by Mathew Brady. Few authors have written on the subject of the Doty Treaty of 1841. Those who have, seemed intent on repeating the narrative of the first verbatim so that no other opinion has been introduced or offered. The year 1841 was fraught with political tension and there was conflicting views regarding the frontiers. Major Joshua Pilcher, who had first ...

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2013 year in blogging | Echo Hill Ancestors Weblog

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Echo Hill Ancestors Weblog. Happy New Year from WordPress.com! Each rocket represents a post published on this blog in 2013. And because we like to share, we made the fireworks available as a jQuery plugin on GitHub. Some browsers are better suited for this kind of animation. In our tests, Safari and Chrome worked best. Your overall score is not known. We made beautiful, animated fireworks to celebrate your blogging! A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,200. Children of...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: FELIX ST. VRAIN

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Early St. Louis. FELIX ST. VRAIN. Killed while Agent to the Sac and Foxes. Joshua Pilcher temporarily assigned to his Post. Felix was the son of Jaques Marcellin Ceran deHault deLassus de St. Vrain of Bouchaine, of the northern region of France. He descended from an ancient and aristocratic family of the region, his own grandfather having been Knight of Grand Cross of the Royal Order of St. Michael until they fled during the "Reign of Terror.". Thomas Forsyth. Although. Forsyth had been an agent for eigh...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: ST. LOUIS PIONEER MERCHANT CHRISTIAN WILT

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Early St. Louis. ST LOUIS PIONEER MERCHANT CHRISTIAN WILT. HIS SIGNIFICANT LINK TO THE MISSOURI FUR COMPANY AND SACAJAWEA. 1st entry by Luttig (Image included in the 1920 publication of the journal). The Kennerly journal had been in the safe-keeping of my 2nd great-grandfather. His daughter, Mrs. S.E. Jones (Mabel), had brought it to the attention of the Missouri Historical Society and eventually donated it where it is now archived in the Thomas Anderson Moore Collection. While matrimony might have drawn...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: The Missouri Fur Company

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Early St. Louis. The Missouri Fur Company. Among the first at New Orleans issued commission from the director-general of Louisiana to conduct the business of trading furs, was Laclede, Maxan, and Company in 1762. In a winter tour of the Mississippi during 1763 and early 1764, Auguste and Pierre Chouteau established a fur-trading post at the point which would become known as St. Louis. In failing health, Lisa left St. Louis hoping to find healing health at the mineral springs, but died on the 12th of ...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: THE PLANTERS' HOUSE HOTEL AND A GAME OF THRONES

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Early St. Louis. THE PLANTERS' HOUSE HOTEL AND A GAME OF THRONES. Recently my daughter purchased the book. By George R.R. Martin, bestselling author of. A Game of Thrones. As she was reading the review from The Washington Post Book World that the book “Read more like a strongly themed historical novel than a Gothic horror …” I found my interest immediately piqued. When I then turned to the first page and found the opening scene set in 1857 St. Louis and. Louis, MO, 1994. The Evening Independent, St. ...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: Joshua Pilcher - A Gentleman of the Most Kind and Urbane Disposition

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Early St. Louis. Joshua Pilcher - A Gentleman of the Most Kind and Urbane Disposition. The last entry of, “The Early History of St. Louis and Missouri from its First Exploration …” by Shepard, the author pays tribute to Joshua Pilcher. The following is an exact transcript of the original which was published in 1870:. Labels: Elihu H. Shepard. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Search Early St. Louis. ST LOUIS PIONEER MERCHANT CHRISTIAN WILT. FELIX ST. VRAIN. DOTY'S TREATY OF 1841. Rooted in science and ...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: The Journey of the Augustin Kennerly Journal

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Early St. Louis. The Journey of the Augustin Kennerly Journal. Thread Between Clark and Pilcher. Great grandfather Thomas Anderson Moore. In 1918, a few years after Moore's death, the journal was sent to the Missouri Historical Society by his daughter and studied with great interest by Stella M. Drumm and John Francis McDermott, both who later edited and authored many books and articles relative to Missouri and the Mississippi Valley. But how did the journal of Kennerly end up with Moore? Wife Their fath...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: FREEMASONRY IN EARLY ST. LOUIS

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Early St. Louis. FREEMASONRY IN EARLY ST. LOUIS. Rooted in science and born out of the stone mason's guild in the 1600s, the first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry was chartered in London in 1717. During the eighteenth century, the organization became saturated by men of science and freedom of thought. Men such as Benjamin Franklin, who were bound by reason rather than faith, were the same men who supported the American Revolution and whose worldwide diplomatic connections helped finance their freedom. The Lou...

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Early St. Louis Blog by P. Davidson-Peters: FOLLOWING HIS FOOTSTEPS:

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Early St. Louis. Joshua Pilcher, Successor to William Clark. Throughout my years of research, I began to realize the many similarities between the lives of Joshua Pilcher and William Clark. Both were native Virginians who had first moved to Kentucky and then to St. Louis. Both had belonged to the Freemasons in Missouri, both had joined Manuel Lisa in the Missouri Fur Company, and both had died while serving as Superintendent of Indian Affairs. VIRGINA TO KENTUCKY – MASONIC TIES. Reads in part: “His...