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Digitizer

• Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1848/02/08-1864/12/31.

Summary note

Description: Includes a letter from J. C. Fremont to Harris Wilson concerning draft drawn by him upon Robert Campbell in favor of Samuel Neal; Account papers of Michel Martin in account with Robert Campbell, dealer in dry goods and Indian goods; Account papers of Michel Martin in account with Robert Campbell and Company; and record of shipments (1862-1864) of Campbell & Company under the open cargo policy of the United Insurance Company and an inventory of Campbell & Company, 1864.

Notes

• Robert Campbell was born in Ireland in 1804, came to America in 1822, and to St. Louis in 1824. A year later he joined William H. Ashley's second expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Campbell and William L. Sublette became business partners in 1831. They established a fur trading post named Fort William in 1834, which was destroyed in 1846. Sublette and Campbell dissolved their partnership in 1842. Campbell was president of the Bank of the State of Missouri and later of Merchants Bank, and also owned a dry goods store. In 1846, he aided in equipping volunteers in the Mexican-American War. In 1851, he served with Father DeSmet as representative of the U.S. government in the Indian council at Horse Creek.
• AMDigital Reference: A0226.

Original version

Reproduction of: Letters and papers of Robert Campbell relative to persona and company accounts and ship inventories 8 Feb 1848-31 Dec 1864.

Location of originals

Missouri History Museum

Copyright note

The Missouri History Museum

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on April 12, 2017).

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