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| Anderson, N.S. |
Went into
partnership with Joshua in about 1815.
They sold dry goods and general
merchandise, and rented storage space to
other merchants in St. Louis until
Anderson's death in 1816. It should also
be noted that an N.S. Anderson born in
Lexington in 1799 was married to Joshua's
niece, Nancy Pilcher - daughter of his
brother Moses and Elizabeth (Collins). He
died in Nashville in 1849 and Nancy
married James Hensley. |
| Born: Unknown |
| Died: 1816 | St. Louis, MO |
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| Benton, Thomas Hart |
May have met
Joshua during the War of 1812 while they
were both in Nashville. The two became
friends and in 1839, Senator Benton
formally recommended Joshua for
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and in
the 1839-1840 Democrat campaign, Joshua
supported Benton. When Joshua drew up his
Last Will
& Testament on 18 Nov 1842, he
left the $3,800 note Benton owed him to
be held in trust for Benton's daughter
Susan until she became of suitable age. |
| Born: 14 Mar 1782 | Orange
Co., NC |
| Died: 10 Apr 1858 |
Washington D.C. |
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| Billon,
Charles, Sr. |
His son
Charles Pierre, born in 1803, married
Frances Riddick - daughter of Thomas Riddick and Eliza
(Carr); and daughter Virginia married
Paul B. Gratiot; |
| Born: 10 Jan 1766 | Locle,
Switzerland |
| Died: 08 Sep 1822 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Carr, Eliza Minor |
Sister of
Judge William C. Carr who was appointed
Judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court in
1826 by Governor Miner. She was also the
wife of Thomas F. Riddick. She and
her family were very closely associated
with Joshua Pilcher who named Eliza and
her children in his will. Her daughter
Frances was the wife of Charles P.
Billon, and daughter Virginia the wife of
Edward Brooks (excecutor of Joshua's
will). |
| Born: 05 Apr 1791 |
Lexington, KY |
| Died: Unknown |
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| Carr,
Judge William C. |
Brother of
Eliza Minor Carr who married Thomas F.
Riddick, partner of Joshua Pilcher.
William arrived in St. Louis in 1804, and
was appointed by Govenor John Miner to
the office of Circuit Judge of the St.
Louis Circuit. Carr was also elected
secretary of the Masonic Lodge in
Missouri in 1816 at which time Joshua was
named First or Charter Master. |
| Born: 15 Apr 1783 |
Charlottesville, VA |
| Died: 31 Mar 1851 |
Lexington, KY |
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| Chouteau, Auguste,
Sr. |
Chouteau
came with Laclede in 1764. His father
abandoned him and his mother when he was
a young boy and she became common law
wife of Pierre Laclede. Her children by
Laclede and Auguste's half siblings were
all Choteaus - John Pierre, Pelagie, Mary
Louise and Victoire. Auguste was the
first president of the Bank of Missouri
in 1817 in which Riddick, Benton &
Joshua Pilcher were allied and
associated. |
| Born: 26 Sep 1750 | New
Orleans |
| Died: 24 Feb 1849 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Chouteau, John
Pierre, Sr. |
Half brother
of Auguste Chouteau, he arrived in St.
Louis in 1764. He devoted much of his
young years to the Indian trade and had a
trading post at the head waters of the
Osage river, which was occupied by the
Osage tribes, and neighboring Pawnees and
others. He was held in great esteem by
them and associated with Joshua Pilcher,
also a fur trader and Indian agent. |
| Born: 10 Oct 1758 | New
Orleans |
| Died: 10 Jul 1849 |
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| Clark, William |
Son of John
and Ann (Rogers), and brother of George
Rogers Clark, he participated in Col.
John Hardin's expedition against the
Indians across the Ohio. In about 1804 he
came to St. Louis and was commissioned
with Capt. Meriwether Lewis in an
exploration expedition from St. Louis to
the mouth of the Columbia river. In 1809
he joined with Mauel Lisa and
Silvestre Labadie to form the American
Fur Company. In 1813 he was appointed
Governor of Missouri by President
Madison, and in 1822 to Superintendent of
Indian Affairs by President Monroe -
holding this office until his death, at
which time he was succeeded by Joshua
Pilcher. |
| Born: 01 Aug 1770 | Caroline
Co., VA |
| Died: 01 Sep 1838 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Deere, Charles
Henry |
Son of John
Deere, (of the now present John Deere
Co.), joined his father's business first
as a bookkeeper and later broke out on
his own. Along with Alvah Mansur, he
founded the Deere & Mansur Co. which
later became Mansur & Tebbetts
Implement Co. His partner Alvah's sister
Ellen Mansur was the wife of Tebbetts,
whose daughter Rebecca was married to
Thomas A. Moore, son of Joshua Pilcher's
great niece Clarissa Pilcher. |
| Born: 28 Mar 1837 | Hancock,
VT |
| Died: 29 Oct 1907 |
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| Dougherty, John |
Came to St.
Louis in 1809 and joined the Missouri Fur
Company expedition to the Rocky Mountain
region. Was an interpreter, Indian agent,
and army officer. He was initially a good
friend of Joshua's, but they differed
poltically and competed for the position
of Superintendent of Indian Affairs. In
1837 he was dismissed by Van Buren's
administration for political differences,
and continued to support the
anti-Chouteau, anti-Benton Whigs in
Liberty, where he also attempted to have
the Office of Superintendency moved from
St. Louis. |
| Born: 12 Apr 1791 | Nelson
Co., KY |
| Died: 28 Dec 1860 | Liberty,
MO |
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| Hancock, Julia |
Daughter of
George and Margaret (Strother) and first
wife of William Clark, the explorer. Her
grandparents were George Strother and
Mary Kennerly, daughter of James and
sister of Samuel who married her aunt,
Mary Talbot Hancock. |
| Born: 21 Nov 1791 |
Fincastle, VA |
| Died: 27 Jun 1820 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Hempstead, Edward |
Lawyer, he
came to St. Louis in 1805 and the
following year received the appointment
of deputy attorney-general for the
Districts of St. Louis and St. Charles.
In 1809, was appointed Attorney-General
for the Territory of Upper Louisiana and
on 04 Jun 1812 with an Act of Congress
changed the name from Louisiana to
Missouri Territory. He was then elected
its first delegate to Congress from west
of the Mississippi and was in 1814
Speaker of the Territorial Assembly of
Missouri. |
| Born: 03 Jun 1780 | New
London, CT |
| Died: 09 Aug 1817 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Kennerly, Augustin |
Son of
Samuel and Mary Talbot (Hancock), brother
of Elizabeth, George, James, and Harriet
who married William Clark. Augustin was
sub-agent to the Senecas in 1832 while
General William Clark was Superintendent
of Indian Affairs. and during that time
kept a journal which came into the
possession of Thomas Anderson Moore,
husband of Clarissa V. Pilcher, whose
great uncle was Joshua Pilcher the fur
trader who succeeded William Clark as
Superintendent of Indian Affairs. The
journal was donated by Moore's daughter
Mabel (Mrs. S.E. Jones) and remains in
the Thomas
Anderson Moore Collection at the Missouri
Historical Society. |
| Born: 17 Aug 1794 | Virginia |
| Died: Dec 1857 | Jefferson
Barracks, MO |
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| Kennerly, James |
Son of
Samuel and Mary Talbot (Hancock), he came
to St. Louis about 1813, and entered the
mercantile business, being associated
with John O'Fallon, later with his
brother George Kennerly. From 1827-1837
he was sutler for the troops at Jefferson
Barracks. He was first cousin of Julia
Hancock, wife of William Clark. |
| Born: 05 Aug 1792 |
Fincastle, VA |
| Died: 26 Aug 1840 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Kennerly,
Mary |
Daughter of
James Kennerly & Elizabeth Winston
James; wife of George Strother and mother
of George, John and Margaret Strother who
married George Hancock (1754-1820). She
married her 2nd husband, Patrick
Lockhart, in 1770 and had by him John
Lockhart who died in Nashville in 1832 |
| Born: 10 Sep 1746 | Virgina |
| Died: 18 Jun 1830 |
Fotheringay, VA |
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| Labbadie, Sylvestre |
Son of
Dominnick and Anne Belac, he came to St.
Louis in 1769 and married Pelagie
Chouteau in 1776. Was engaged in the fur
trade and was co-partners in the Missouri
Fur Company with Pierre Choteau Sr., and
Auguste Choteau, Jr., Pierre Menard,
William Clark and others. His children m |
| Born: Uknown | Tarbs, France |
| Died: 19 Jun 1794 |
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| Liggett, Hiram Shaw |
Son of John
E. Liggett, the tobacco manufacturer, and
Elizabeth (Calbreath), and became
associated in business with his father at
the age of eighteen and was soon
afterward sent to San Francisco,
California, to represent the interest in
that city. His paternal grandmother was
Elizabeth (Foulks) who after the death of
her husband Joseph Liggett, married Hiram
H. Shaw - of some presumed relation to
Hiram Shaw, the hatter of Lexington who
had married Margaret Pilcher, sister of
Joshua the fur trader and Indian agent. |
| Born: 04 Apr 1858 | St.
Louis, MO |
| Died: 25 Dec 1892 | San
Antonio, TX |
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| Liggett, John
Edmund |
Tobacco
manufacturer who was in business with
George Meyer of the firm Liggett &
Myer, successors to Hiram Shaw & Co.
(his step-father being Hiram Shaw). The
relation of Hiram Shaw, the step-father,
to Hiram Shaw the hatter (1776-1822) is
not known, but appears to be a
connection. |
| Born: 11 Jun 1826 | St.
Louis, MO |
| Died: 23 Nov 1897 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Lisa, Manuel |
Fur trader
and explorer - When the Missouri Fur Company was
organized in 1808 by Pierre Chouteau and
William Clark, Manuel Lisa was taken in,
and later re-organized the company which
included Joshua Pilcher. He married Mary
Hempstead, daughter of Stephen and widow
of John Kenney. After his death, Joshua
Pilcher succeeded him as head of the
Missouri Fur Company. |
| Born: 08 Sep 1772 | Cuba |
| Died: 12 Aug 1820 | Sulphur
Spring, MO |
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| Mansur, Alvah |
Went into
business with Charles Deere to form Deere &
Mansur which was later
bought out and became Mansur &
Tebbetts. Alvah's new partner was his
brother-in-law Lewis Bates Tebbetts
(husband of his sister Ellen E. Mansur).
L. B.'s daughter Rebecca Tebbetts,
married Thomas Anthony Moore on 27 Apr
1895, he being the son of Clarissa V.
Pilcher & Thomas A. Moore. |
| Born: 05 Dec 1833 | Lowell,
MA |
| Died: 08 Jan 1898 | Los
Angeles, CA |
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| Mc Nair, Governor Alexander |
Served in
the War of 1812 and Whiskey Rebellion, he
came to St. Louis in 1804 and was elected
governor on August 28, 1820. After
completing his term, he left office in
1824 and afterwards secured an
appointment as the U.S. agent to the
Osage. |
| Born: 05 May 1775 |
Lancaster, PA |
| Died: 18 Mar 1826 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Menard, Pierre |
French
pioneer and first Lieutenant-Governor of
Illinois, was father of Bernice who
married Francis G. Chouteau (son of John
Pierre & Brigitte Saucier); and
Alzire who married George Hancock
Kennerly (son of Samuel Kennerly &
Mary Talbot Hancock). |
| Born: 07 Oct 1766 | St.
Antoine, Quebec |
| Died: 13 Jun 1844 |
Kaskaskia, IL |
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| Moore, Thomas
Anderson |
Son of
blacksmith James U. Moore and his wife
Rebecca (Cook), came to Madison Co., IL
in 1847 and then to St. Louis in about
1859 or 1860. Married Clarissa V. Pilcher
in St. Louis on 07 Oct 1862. Served with
Co. K, 33rd MO and shot in the Battle of
Helena, left for dead.The journal of
Augustin Kennerly was in his possession
at the time of his death and was donated
to the Missouri Historical Society. |
| Born: 31 Oct 1838 | Scio, OH |
| Died: 16 Jun 1915 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Moore, Thomas Anthony |
Son of T.A.
and Clarissa (Pilcher), and great-grand
nephew of Joshua Pilcher, he was involved
in the lumber business when he married
Rebecca Tebbetts, daughter of Lewis Bates
Tebbetts (partner of Alvah
Mansur). The marriage ended in divorce
and Tom then married Eleanor Chase. |
| Born: 15 Oct 1867 | St.
Louis, MO |
| Died: 27 Feb 1948 | Los
Angeles, CA |
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| Pilcher, Clarissa VanBergen |
Daughter of
Ezekiel Pilcher & Louisa (Ballard)
and great niece of Joshua Pilcher, the
fur trader and Indian agent. Married
Thomas A. Moore, attended medical school
and became a homeopathic doctor in St.
Louis. Her eldest child, Tom A. Moore,
married Rebecca Tebbetts - daughter of
Lewis B. Tebbetts of Mansur &
Tebbetts. |
| Born: 07 Oct 1845 |
Springfield, IL |
| Died: 07 Apr 1890 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Pilcher, Joshua |
Son of
Joshua and Nancy, removed to Lexington in
1793 where he worked as a hatter for
Hiram Shaw. During the War of 1812 went
to Nashville, later arriving in St. Louis
about 1814. A fur trader, he joined up
with Manuel Lisa in the Missouri Fur Company, later
became an Indian agent and succeeded
William Clark as Superintendent of Indian
Affairs. |
| Born: 15 Mar 1790 | Culpeper
Co., VA |
| Died: 05 Jun 1843 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Pratte, Bernard A. |
First mayor
of St. Louis to have been born in that
city, he was a Whig who served from
1844-1846. His father was General Bernard
Pratte of the old fur trading firm
Pratte, Chouteau and Company who had
maintained a large fur trade with the
Indians and who had been competitors of
Joshua Pilcher who became head of the
Missouri Fur Company after the death of
Manuel Lisa. |
| Born: 17 Dec 1803 | St.
Louis, MO |
| Died: 10 Aug 1886 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Riddick,
Thomas Fiveash |
Husband of
Eliza Carr, he and Joshua Pilcher were
business partners in St. Louis prior to
Joshua joining the Missouir Fur Company.
They were fellow Virginians whose
families were possibly acquainted, and
both were Masons. Riddick's daughters,
Virginia and Frances as well as their
husbands (Edward Brooks & Charles
Billon) were all well-acquainted with
Joshua and mentioned in his last Will and
Testament. |
| Born: 05 Jun 1781 | Suffolk,
VA |
| Died: 15 Jan 1830 | Sulphur
Springs, MO |
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| Strother, Margaret Kennerly |
Daughter of
George Strother and Mary Kennerly, the
latter's brother, Samuel, married Mary
Hancock. She married George Hancock in
1781 and was the mother of Julia who
married William Clark of the famed
expedition. Clark held the position of
Superintendent of Indian Affairs and
after his death, Joshua succeeded him in
that position. Her other children were:
Mary, wife of John Griffin; Caroline,
wife of William Preston; John Hancock;
and George who married Eliza Croghan,
niece of William Clark through his sister
Lucy. |
| Born: 16 Nov 1763 | Virginia |
| Died: 23 Oct 1834 |
Lexington, KY |
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| Tebbetts, Lewis
Bates |
Married
Ellen Elizabeth Mansur (daughter of Alvah
Mansur), and was vice-president of Mansur
& Tebbetts, the successor of the old
Deere & Mansur Co. He was the father
of Rebecca who married Thomas Anthony
Moore, son of Clarissa V. Pilcher and
great-grand nephew of Joshua Pilcher, the
fur trader and Indian agent. |
| Born: 30 aug 1834 | Great
Fall, NH |
| Died: 18 Jun 1918 | St.
Louis, MO |
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| Tebbetts, Rebecca |
Daughter of
Lewis Bates Tebbetts and Ellen (Mansur).
Her father was an implement dealer and
partner of Alvah Mansur in the Mansur
& Tebbetts Co. On 27 apr 1895 she
married Thomas Anthony Moore, son of
Clarissa V. (Pilcher) and T.A. Moore.
Like her marriage to Tom, their
separation and divorce made headlines in
the society column as did her 2nd
marriage to secretary of the Brown's
baseball league, Lloyd Rickart in 1909. |
| Born: 10 Nov 1872 | Maryland |
| Died: Possibly Chicago, IL |
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