Chouteau




Chouteau was the name of a highly successful, ethnically French fur-trading family based in Saint Louis, Missouri, which they helped to found. Its members established posts in the Midwest and Western United States, particularly along the Missouri River and in the Southwest. Various locations were named after this family.




Contents






  • 1 People


  • 2 Places


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links





People



  • Marie-Therese Bourgeois Chouteau (1733-1814), matriarch of the family

children of Marie-Therèse Bourgeois Chouteau and René Augustin Chouteau, Sr.

  • René Auguste Chouteau (1750-1829), founder of St. Louis, Missouri[1]




  • Auguste Aristide Chouteau (1792-1833), fur trader

  • Henri Chouteau I (1805-1855), railroad executive, killed in Gasconade Bridge train disaster



  • Henri Chouteau II (1830-1854), married Julia Deaver


  • Azby Auguste Chouteau Sr. (1853-?), lawyer and one of the founders of Minnesela, South Dakota, husband of Cora Baker (great-great-granddaughter of Isaac Shelby)


  • Azby Chouteau Jr. (1884-?)

  • Henri Arminstead Chouteau III (1889-1952), realtor[2][3]





  • Edward Chouteau (1807-1846), trader

  • Gabriel Chouteau (1794-1887), served in War of 1812

  • Eulalie Chouteau (1799-1835), married René Paul (1783-1851), first surveyor of St. Louis



  • Gabriel René Paul (1813-1886), Union Army general in the American Civil War


  • Louise Chouteau, married Gabriel Paul, French chevalier

  • Emilie Chouteau, married Thomas Floyd, US officer in the Black Hawk War



children of Marie-Therèse Bourgeois Chouteau and Pierre Laclède (also founder of St. Louis, Missouri):

  • Victoire Chouteau, (1760-1825), wife of Charles Gratiot, Sr., financier of the Illinois campaign during the American Revolutionary War




  • Charles Gratiot, (1786-1855), builder of Fort Meigs and Fort Monroe and participant in Battle of Mackinac Island

  • Henry Gratiot (1789-1856), soldier in the Black Hawk War


  • Adèle Gratiot (1826-1887), wife of Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887), U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to France



  • Jean Pierre Chouteau (1758-1849)[1]





  • Auguste Pierre Chouteau (1786-1838), founder of posts in Oklahoma and Chouteau, Oklahoma

  • Emilie Sophie Chouteau (1813-1874), wife of Nicolas DeMenil and owner of Chatillon-DeMenil House



  • Pierre Chouteau, Jr. (1789-1865), founder of posts on Upper Missouri River, including Fort Pierre and Chouteau County, Montana


  • François Chouteau, first official European settler of Kansas City, Missouri




  • Yvonne Chouteau (1929-2016), 20th-century Shawnee classical ballerina, one of the "Five Moons" of Oklahoma; 5th-generation descendant of Jean Pierre Chouteau

  • Marie Pelagie Chouteau (1760-1812), grandmother of Emilie Pratt, wife of Ramsay Crooks (1780-1859), General Manager and President of the American Fur Company and business partner of Jean Pierre Chouteau


Places



  • Choteau, Montana

  • Chouteau County, Montana

  • Chouteau, Oklahoma


  • Pierre, South Dakota (named for Pierre Chouteau, Jr.)


  • Chouteau Bridge across the Missouri River in Kansas City


  • Chouteau's Landing in St. Louis


  • Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis


The family sold the Chouteau posts along the upper Missouri River in 1865 after the American Civil War to Americans James B. Hubbell, Alpheus F. Hawley, James A. Smith, C. Francis Bates. Hubbell, based in Minnesota, already had some licenses from the federal government to trade with Native Americans in the West. He and his colleague Hawley formed a partnership with these men to set up a business. They formed the Northwestern Fur Company and operated it through posts along the upper Missouri River until 1870. They closed the business due to losses of equipment and furs during the Sioux uprising and warfare during the 1860s, which resulted in a volatile environment that made it too difficult to operate.[4]



References




  1. ^ ab Beckwith, Paul Edmond (1893). Creoles of St. Louis. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Benedict Richards, Marjorie. Minnesela: The City That Never Happened. Spearfish, SD: Northern Hills Printing, 1972. Print.


  3. ^ Kestenbaum, Lawrence (2015). "Cho to Christenberry". The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians. Retrieved 2018-04-29.


  4. ^ Lucile M. Kane, "New Light on the Northwestern Fur Company", Minnesota History Magazine, Winter 1955, pp. 325-329



External links




  • "The Chouteau Family", Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture


  • "Henri Arminstead Chouteau." Find a Grave. N.p., 29 Sept. 2007. Web.




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