Dates

• Existence: 1786 - 1838

Biography

Auguste Chouteau (1786-1838) was a member of the Chouteau fur-trading family that established trading posts in what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

Citation:

Auguste Chouteau legal documents, 1810 (handwritten and siged legal documents dated 11 and 30 June 1810; the materials include two summonses in cases by the city of St. Louis against Francis Waddell and John Reed for selling goods in the city without the payment of taxes; also included is a statement of indebtedness)

Wikipedia, 25 October 2019 (Auguste Pierre Chouteau; born 9 May 1786 in St. Louis, then part of Spanish colonial Upper Louisiana; died 25 December 1838 in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory; member of the Chouteau fur-trading family who established trading posts in what is now the U.S. state of Oklahoma; Auguste Chouteau was among the first young men from Missouri to be appointed to West Point by Thomas Jefferson; after graduating in 1806, he resigned from the Army in 1807; he entered the family fur trading business, but he later served as captain of the territorial militia during the War of 1812; Chouteau, Oklahoma, is named for him)

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