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.

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, 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, 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, Missouri
• Chouteau Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Beckwith, Paul Edmond (1893). Creoles of St. Louis. St. Louis: Nixon-Jones. 
2. ↑ "Henri Arminstead Chouteau." Find a Grave. N.p., 29 Sept. 2007. Web. Retrieved 7 Aug. 2013.
3. ↑ Benedict Richards, Marjorie. Minnesela: The City That Never Happened. Spearfish, SD: Northern Hills Printing, 1972. Print.

External links

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