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In 1843, Robidoux hired
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Robidoux was the most spectacular example of several enterprising white settlers who encroached on Indian land. Faced with the possibilities of more encroachment, the tribes in 1836 agreed to sell what is now the northwest corner of
Missouri for $ 7,500 to the federal government in a deal at
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Robidoux prospered in the years between 1830 and 1843, employing as many as 20 ethnic French men to engage in trade with the Native
Americans to the west of his post. When Missouri entered the union in 1821, the state's western boundary was based on the
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Saint Joseph prospered quickly in the years after its founding, growing from a population of 800 in 1846 to 8,932 in 1860. Joseph
Robidoux remained a prominent citizen. His early trading offices are known as Robidoux Row; the complex is listed in the
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Joseph
Robidoux IV was the grandson of Joseph Robidoux (13 SEPT 1722 • Montreal, St-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, L'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec, Canada] in 1722) and Marie-Anne Leblanc (13 JAN 1728 • Île-Dorléans, Montmorency, Quebec, Canada). He grew up in
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Delisle, died. She and Joseph had had two children, a daughter, Messanie, who preceded her mother in death, and a son, Joseph F. Robidoux. Later using the given name of Joseph, he also became a trader.
84:, Missouri, October 20, 1767; died in 1868). Joseph Robidoux IV was born August 5, 1783, in Saint Louis, as were the six of his seven brothers who survived to adulthood. This was before it was acquired by the United States as part of the 1803
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Robidoux died on 27 May 1868, and was buried at the
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Plans for the town were filed with the clerk of Common Pleas in St. Louis on July 26, 1843. Shortly thereafter, Robidoux began selling lots, with corner lots going for $ 150.00 and interior lots $ 100.00.
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5. Rabideau, Clyde M. Beaver Tales, Trappers, Traders, Mountain Men & Scoundrels, 2002, Joseph
Robidoux, The Family Patriarch, 2005, Descendants of Andre Robidou, 2011, Heartlnut Publishing
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Built prior to 1830, Robidoux's home was located on the northwest corner of 2nd & Jules streets in Saint Joseph. It was the first building in the settlement. The house was later removed to
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Angeline Caroline Jones. Joseph Henry Robidoux Papst was born in St. Joseph, Missouri in 1853 and Madora Rubidoux Papst was born in 1855.
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Secondly, Joseph married a Native American woman when he operated a trading post at Scott's Bluff from 1849-1851. She may have been Shoshone. The couple had one child:
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bought him out and offered him $ 1,000 a year to refrain from competing with them. A later post at the North Omaha site was operated by and named for
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