Chouteau
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Chouteau was the name of a highly successful French fur-trading family based in St. Louis, Missouri, members of which established posts in the Midwest and Western United States. Various locations derive their names from the family.
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[edit] People
- Marie-Therese Bourgeois Chouteau (1733-1814), matriarch of the family
- children of Marie-Therèse Bourgeois Chouteau and René Auguste Chouteau, Sr.
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- René Auguste Chouteau (1750-1829), founder of St. Louis, Missouri[1]
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- Auguste Aristide Chouteau (1792-1833), fur trader
- Henry Chouteau (1805-1855), railroad executive, killed in Gasconade Bridge train disaster
- 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
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- 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, officer in the Black Hawk War
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- children of Marie-Therèse Bourgeois Chouteau and Pierre Laclède (also founder of St. Louis, Missouri):
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- Victoire Chouteau, (1760-1825), wife of Charles Gratiot, Sr., financier of the Illinois campaign during the American Revolutionary War
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- 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
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- 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]
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- Auguste Pierre Chouteau (1786-1838), founder of posts in Oklahoma and Chouteau, Oklahoma
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- 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
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- Yvonne Chouteau, 20th-century Shawnee classical ballerina, one of the "Five Moons" of Oklahoma; 5th-generation descendant of Jean Pierre Chouteau
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[edit] Places
- Chouteau County, Montana
- Chouteau, Oklahoma
- Chouteau Bridge across the Missouri River in Kansas City
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[edit] External links
- "The Chouteau Family", Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
