Chouteau

Chouteau

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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People

children of Marie-Therèse Bourgeois Chouteau and René Auguste Chouteau, Sr.
  • 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
  • Louise Chouteau, married Gabriel Paul, French chevalier
  • Emilie Chouteau, married Thomas Floyd, officer in the Black Hawk War
children of Marie-Therèse Bourgeois Chouteau and Pierre Laclède (also founder of St. Louis, Missouri):
  • Adèle Gratiot (1826-1887), wife of Elihu B. Washburne (1816-1887), U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to France
  • Yvonne Chouteau, 20th-century Shawnee classical ballerina, one of the "Five Moons" of Oklahoma; 5th-generation descendant of Jean Pierre Chouteau

Places

References

  1. ^ a b Beckwith, Paul Edmond (1893). Creoles of St. Louis. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones. 

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