Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable

Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (1745(?) - August 28, 1818), popularly known as "The Father of Chicago",^[1] was the first known settler in the area which is now Chicago, Illinois. Du Sable was recognized by the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago as the Founder of Chicago on October 26, 1968.^[2] Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... // Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected... is the 240th day of the year (241st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ...

Biography

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable first arrived on the western shores of Lake Michigan around 1779. Born in Saint-Marc, Sainte Domingue (present-day Haiti), he built the first permanent settlement at the mouth of the river just east of the present Michigan Avenue Bridge on the north bank.^[3] Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America, and the only one in the group located entirely within the United States. ... Saint-Marc is a coastal, port town in western Haiti. ... It has been suggested that Greater Santo Domingo Area be merged into this article or section. ...

He may have been born as early as the 1730s and no later than 1745 to a slave named Suzanna and a French pirate mate named Pointe du Sable who served about the Black Sea Gull.^[4] Suzanna may have been killed in a Spanish raid on Haiti, and perhaps Jean Baptiste escaped by swimming out to his father's ship. After his father sent him to study at a Catholic school in France, du Sable and a friend, Jacques Clamorgan, traveled to Louisiana and then to Michigan, where he married a Potawatomi woman name Kittahawa (fleet-of-foot). To marry her, the twenty-five year old Jean Bapitiste had to become a member of her tribe, taking a eagle as his tribal symbol.^[5] The Potawatomi called him "Black Chief," and he became a high-ranking member of the tribe. They had a son and daughter, Jean and Susanne. Pointe du Sable's grand-daughter, Eulalia, was the first non-Indian born in Chicago. Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area  Ranked 31st  - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 379 miles (610 km)  - % water 16  - Latitude 29°N to 33°N  - Longitude 89°W... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... Rain dance, Kansas, c. ...

Before it was anything else, Chicago was a trading center. Its first permanent resident, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, operated the first elaborate fur-trading post during the two decades before his departure in 1800.^[6] Du Sable built his first house in the 1770s on the land now known as Pioneer Court, thirty years before Fort Dearborn was established on the banks of the Chicago River.^[4] By the time he sold to John Kinzie's frontman, Jean La Lime, for 6,000 livres,^[7] his property included a house, two barns, horse-drawn mill, bakehouse, poultry house, dairy and a smokehouse.^[8] His home was a 22 by 40 foot log cabin filled with fine furniture and paintings. In 1913, Milo M. Quaife, nationally known historical librarian in Detroit, Michigan, discovered the bill of sale from du Sable to Jean La Lime. This document outlined all of the property du Sable owned as well as many of his personal artifacts.^[9] Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: , Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Settled 1770s Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... A trading post is a place where trading of goods takes place. ... Events and Trends For more events, see 18th century United States Declaration of Independence ratified by the Continental Congress (July 4, 1776). ... Pioneer Court is a small plaza located near the junction of the Chicago River and Upper Michigan Avenue in Chicagos Magnificent Mile. ... Fort Dearborn, named in honor of Henry Dearborn, was a United States fort built on the Chicago River in 1803 by troops under Captain John Whistler. ... The Chicago River is 156 miles (251 km) long[1], and flows through downtown Chicago. ... John Kinzie (December 3, 1763 - January 6, 1828) is known as Chicago’s first permanent white settler. ... Jean La Lime (died June 17, 1812 in Chicago, Illinois). ... Wikibooks Cookbook has more about this subject: Smoking Smoking is the process of preserving, cooking, or flavoring food by exposing it to the smoke from burning or smoldering plant materials, most often wood. ... Nickname: Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (Latin for, We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes) Location in Wayne County, Michigan Coordinates: , Country United States State Michigan County Wayne County Founded 1701 Incorporation 1806 Government  - Type Strong Mayor-Council  - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Area  - City  143. ...

During the Revolutionary War, he was imprisoned briefly by the British at Detroit, Michigan, on suspicion of being a US spy.^[10] He also helped George Rogers Clark in a raid on Vincennes during the war.^[4] From the summer of 1780 until May of 1784, du Sable managed the Pinery, a huge tract of woodlands claimed by British Lt. Patrick Sinclair on the St. Clair River in eastern Michigan. Du Sable and his family lived at a cabin at the mouth of the Pine River in what is now the city of St. Clair.^[11] Combatants United States France Spanish Empire Dutch Republic Oneida Tuscarora Polish volunteers Quebec volunteers Prussian volunteers Kingdom of Great Britain Iroquois Confederacy Hessian mercenaries Loyalists Commanders George Washington Nathanael Greene Gilbert de La Fayette Comte de Rochambeau Bernardo de Gálvez Tadeusz KoÅ›ciuszko Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben King George... Motto: Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus (We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes - this motto was adopted after the disastrous 1805 fire that devastated the city) Nickname: The Motor City and Motown Location in Wayne County, Michigan Founded Incorporated July 24, 1701 1815  County Wayne County Mayor... Official language(s) None (English, de-facto) Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Area  Ranked 11th  - Total 97,990 sq mi (253,793 km²)  - Width 239 miles (385 km)  - Length 491 miles (790 km)  - % water 41. ... Clark as painted by Matthew Harris Jouett in 1825 George Rogers Clark (November 19, 1752 – February 13, 1818) was the preeminent American military leader on the northwestern frontier during the American Revolutionary War. ... The city of Vincennes is the county seat of Knox County, Indiana. ...

In 1800, du Sable left Chicago for Peoria, Illinois, where he lived for a decade.^[12] Du Sable moved to St. Charles in 1813, where his granddaughter lived. He died in 1818, the year Illinois became a state, and is buried in St. Charles. He was buried in an unmarked grave in St. Borromeo Cemetery until a granite marker was erected in 1968.^[4] The deed books in the office of the St. Charles County Recorder of Deeds do not support the assertions of some authors that du Sable sold land to Alexander McNair, who would become the first governor of Missouri.^[13] // ON MAY 5 1853 MR.FADER HAD SEX WITH A MAN NAME MR WIEN THEN THEY HAD SON NAMEDMRS COTURE AND MR MANOOGIAN WENT INTO MRS HASKELLS OFFICE NAKED AND DANCED AROUND AND MASTERBATED ON HER CHEST AND SHE LICKED IT OFF THEN THEY HAD ORAL SEEX WITH NAPLOEAN OF... , : See how it plays in Peoria United States Illinois Peoria 46. ... St. ...

Legacy and honors

US Postage Stamp 1987

DuSable High School is a Bronzeville high school opened in 1934. A few famous DuSable attendees/graduates include: Nat King Cole, Dinah Washington, Harold Washington, and Redd Foxx. Dr. Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, a prominent African-American artist and writer and co-founder with her husband of the DuSable Museum of African-American History, taught at the school for twenty-three years. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Bronzeville is a neighborhood (located in the Douglas community area) on the South Side of Chicago around the Illinois Institute of Technology, accessible via the Green Line of the Chicago Transit Authority. ... Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a popular American singer, songwriter, and jazz pianist. ... Dinah Washington (August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was a blues, R&B and jazz singer. ... Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was a lawyer, legislator and the first African American Mayor of Chicago, Illinois serving from 1983 until his death in 1987. ... Redd Foxx (December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991), born John Elroy Sanford, was an American comedian best known for his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son. ... Margaret Taylor-Burroughs is a prominent African-American artist and writer born on November 1, 1917 in Saint Rose, Louisiana. ...

The DuSable Museum of African American History, on Chicago's South Side, is named in his honor. Chicago commemorated du Sable's homestead in 1912 with a plaque on the corner of Kinzie and Pine Streets, and he appears in a 1965 frieze created for the Illinois Centennial Building.^[14] The DuSable Museum of African American History is the first and oldest museum dedicated to the history of African-Americans. ...

DuSable Harbor is located in the heart of downtown Chicago at the foot of Randolph Street.

DuSable Park is an urban park (3.24 acres) in Chicago, Illinois currently awaiting redevelopment. It was originally announced in 1987 by then Mayor Harold Washington. The park is to be named after du Sable. DuSable Park is an urban park (3. ... Harold Lee Washington (April 15, 1922 – November 25, 1987) was a lawyer, legislator and the first African American Mayor of Chicago, Illinois serving from 1983 until his death in 1987. ...

du Sable National Historic Landmark

Jean Baptiste Point du Sable homesite is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as a National Historic Landmark on May 11, 1976. It is located at what is now 401 North Michigan Avenue in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. Currently the 35-story Equitable Building is located there.^[15] Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ... This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. ...

In recognition of his pioneering role, the US Postal Service issued a Black Heritage Series, 22-cent stamp, in honor of entrepreneur and diplomat on February 20, 1987. A USPS Truck at Night A U.S. Post Office sign The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the United States government organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is generally referred to as the post office. ...

References

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Sources

• Altman, Susan. Extraordinary Black Americans - From Colonial to Contemporary Times, Chicago: Childrens Press, 1989
• Bennett, Lerone. "Negro who founded Chicago. [Jean Baptiste Point de Saible.]" Ebony Magazine. Chicago, December, 1963. vol. 19, no. 2, p. 170-178.
• Cortesi, Laurence. Jean Du Sable: Father of Chicago. Philadelphia. Chilton Book Company, 1972.
• Doherty, Kieran. Voyageurs, Lumberjacks, and Farmers: Pioneers of the Midwest The Oliver Press, Inc., 2004
• Graham, Shirley. Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable, Founder of Chicago. New York, J. Messner, 1953
• Hughes, Langston. The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, University of Missouri Press, p. 217, 2001
• Lindberg, Richard C. "Jean Baptiste Point DuSable." American National Biography. New York: Oxford, 1999. vol. 7, p. 166-168.
• Marsh, Carole. "Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable: Father of Chicago," Gallopade International, September 1998
• Meehan, Thomas A. "Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the First Chicagoan." Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. Springfield, vol. 56, p. 439-453, 1963.
• Quaife, Milton Milo. Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835, University of Illinois Press, 2001

External links

• DuSable Museum
• Portrait by Chicago Historical Society
• Chicago Historical Society
  
  

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