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	Charles Floyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Floyd (1782- August 20, 1804) was a United States explorer, an officer and quartermaster in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		A funeral was held and Floyd was buried on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River, which the expedition named Floyd's Bluff, in his honor.
		However, after Floyd's journal was published in 1894, new interest was taken in him and his gravemarker was stolen by thieves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Floyd (354 words)

	Lewis & Clark Expedition
		Painter’s maternal great-grandfather who is buried in Wellsburg distinguished himself even further in the history books by being elected sergeant in the expedition On August 22, 1804, replacing Sgt. Charles Floyd, the only casualty of the expedition.
		Those visiting the Sept 6 event will be able to visit this explorer’s grave in the BROOKE CEMETERY, and a monument to Gass now stands at Wellsburg Wharf at Sixth and Main streets, which those paying homage to the journey are also invited to visit.
		Twenty river-rat historians from St Charles, MO, are sailing down the Ohio River to build awareness of the Lewis & Clark expedition’s bicentennial which the nation will commemorate from 2003 to 2006.
	www.brookecountywvgenealogy.org /lc.html (2558 words)

	Wiley Post: Aviation Pioneer
		Wiley Post died in the crash of a hybrid Lockheed Orion-Explorer floatplane near Point Barrow, Alaska, on August 15, 1935.
		In 1933 he took off and landed from Floyd Bennett Field, now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area administered by the National Park Service.
		In his day he was as well known as Charles Lindbergh or Amelia Earhart.
	www.wileypost.com (188 words)

	MSN Encarta - Lewis and Clark Expedition
		Other members of the expedition who also kept journals were Sergeants Charles Floyd, Patrick Gass, and John Ordway, and Private Joseph Whitehouse.
		After reading Voyages from Montréal (1801) by Canadian explorer and fur trader Sir Alexander Mackenzie in the summer of 1802, the president began to make preparations for an American expedition aimed at countering Mackenzie’s plans to make the West and Pacific Northwest part of the British Empire.
		The expedition roster included Clark’s slave, York, who some Native Americans called “Big Medicine,” along with many other adventurers who came to play a major role in American expansion, such as the hunters John Colter and George Drouillard.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569929/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition.html (188 words)

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		Born Johann Pestalozzi, Swiss educational reformer, 1746; John Singer Sargent, US painter, 1856; Jack London, US author, 1876; Hermann Goering, German Nazi leader, 1893; P W Botha, South African po- litician, 1916; Joe Frazier, US heavyweight boxer, 1944.
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