biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1766–1844)
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| biography:
| Fur trader and public official, born in St Antoine, Quebec, Canada. He moved to Indiana (1787) and became a partner in the St Louis Missouri Fur Co. With Andrew Henry, he led the first organized group of trappers to the Three Forks of the Missouri R (1810). He was the first lieutenant-governor of Illinois and served as an Indian commissioner (1828–9). |
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