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- Julien Dubuque (January 1762 – 24 March 1810) was a Canadian of Norman origin from the area of Champlain, Quebec who arrived near what now is known as Dubuque, Iowa, which was named after him. He was one of the first European men to settle in the area.
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Julien Dubuque (January 1762 – 24 March 1810) was a Canadian of Norman origin [1] [2] from the area of Champlain, Quebec who arrived near what now is known as Dubuque, Iowa, which was named after him. He was one of the first European men to settle in the area.
French Canadian fur trader, lead miner, and businessman Julien Dubuque was the first white settler of Iowa. In 1788 he secured permission from Fox Indians to work lead mines on the Iowa side of the Mississippi River .
There stood the Fox Indian village of Kettle Chief with smoke curling lazily upward from the many lodges. By the treaty of September 3, 1783, the victorious American colonies had acquired the land east of the Mississippi while Spain retained the lead mines and the territory west of the great river.
Sep 22, 2024 · Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On September 22, 1788, Julien Dubuque signed an agreement with the Meskwaki to mine lead on lands along the Mississippi River. Considered the first person of European descent to settle within the future bounds of Iowa upon his arrival in 1788, the French-Canadian miner resonates in the state’s memory through the eastern ...
settlement in Iowa. In Dubuque. It was named for Julien Dubuque (1762–1810), a French Canadian trader who in 1788 concluded a treaty with the Fox giving him lead-mining rights. He was the first person of European descent to settle permanently in the region later to become Iowa; a monument on a bluff overlooking the….
In 1796, eight years after Julien Dubuque became the first European settler to set up shop on Iowa soil, a Spanish governor all the way down the Mississippi River in New Orleans, approved a grant to work this land and its multitude of mineral deposits.
Oct 3, 2021 · The first biography of Julien Dubuque in almost a century, authored by Dubuque native Robert Klein, has been published by Loras College Press. “Julien Dubuque: Portrait of a Pioneer” chronicles the life of the first European settler in the region.
