Corson County, SD Biographies.....Ashley, William H. 1778 - 1838
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Author: Doane Robinson (1925)

  Ashley, Gen. William H., 1778-1838; a native of Virginia; settled in St.
Louis, Missouri, in 1805 and after actively engaging in mining and other
business and in the development of the militia, in 1822 he became president of
the great Rocky Mountain Fur Co., trading to the Yellowstone River and the Rocky
Mountains; upon the organization of the State of Missouri (1820) he became the
first lieutenant governor and the general of the militia; in June, 1823, while
enroute to the Yellowstone, he was attacked by the Arickara at Ashley Island
(see War, 3. Arickara). In 1827, having amassed a vast fortune, he turned his
fur business over to Smith, Sublette and Jackson. He was a member of Congress,
1831-37. He was a very popular map in Missouri and the most influential in
Congress next to Senator Benton.

  Hist.. I. 243. Chittenden. 245-S1. Houck's "History of Missouri," III, 265.


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DOANE ROBINSON'S
Encyclopedia of South Dakota
FIRST EDITION

Published by the Author
PIERRE
1925

COPYRIGHT BY DOANE ROBINSON. 1925

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