Talk:Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior

A fact from Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in 1808, Joseph LaBarge traveled from Quebec over a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:32, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in 1808, Joseph LaBarge, Sr. journeyed from Quebec, through a series of rivers and lakes and down the Mississippi River to St. Louis in a birch-bark canoe? Source: Chittenden, History of early steamboat navigation on the Missouri River, p. 3

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/National Salt Satyagraha Memorial
Comment: Text and source supporting hook can be found in the 1st paragraph of the Biography section.

Created by Gwillhickers (talk). Self-nominated at 18:04, 27 August 2019 (UTC).[reply]

@Gwillhickers: New enough and long enough. QPQ present. The hook is cited to and included in the source; I did some needed copyediting. One thing needs resolution before this nomination can continue: there is an uncited and partially redundant paragraph: "In 1813, Joseph Marie married Eulalie Alverez Horitz. Their son, Joseph LaBarge, was the second oldest of seven children in the family. " Also, it and the next paragraph disagree on the spelling of his wife's last name. Is this an issue with the sources or just an editing error? Raymie (t • c) 18:44, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Raymie: I removed the redundant sentence and corrected the spelling to 'Alvarez', used in the source. I also rewrote and cited the sentence about the children-- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:19, 2 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]