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	Henry Miller Shreve - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shreve also made significant improvements to the steamboat and the steam engine, such as separate boilers to power side paddlewheels independently, horizontal cylinders, and multiple decks to allow for passengers and entertainment.
		Henry Miller Shreve was born at "Mount Pleasant", the Shreve family homestead near Columbus, New Jersey.
		Shreve, after becoming captain of the Enterprise, departed Pittsburgh on December 21, 1814 with a load of munitions for General Andrew Jackson to defend New Orleans against an invasion of British forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Miller_Shreve (1148 words)

	Henry Miller Shreve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		At twenty-six, Shreve witnessed Fulton's steamboat, the New Orleans, as it floundered in the shallow waters of the Mississippi.
		Shreve's boat went ahead nevertheless and was a crucial factor in the victory of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.
		Shreve's contributions to inland navigation reflect a greater sense of patriotism and nationalism that swept the nation.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/transport/shreve.html (538 words)

	Who Made America? \| Innovators \| Henry Miller Shreve
		Henry Miller Shreve was instrumental in the realm of early American waterway navigation.
		One of the problems Shreve faced was that tens of thousands of "snags" -- huge tree limbs and trunks in the rivers -- caused frequent accidents.
		Shreve designed a steamboat, the Heliopolis, that had a jaw-like device on its bow to pick up and remove snags to a sawmill on the boat's deck.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/shreve_hi.html (328 words)

	Innovator of the Week: Oliver Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Henry Miller Shreve was instrumental in expanding American waterway navigation.
		Born in 1785 in New Jersey, Shreve grew up in the Ohio River valley and acquired a knack for river navigation, spending time as a trapper in his youth.
		One of the problems Shreve encountered in holding that office was that tens of thousands of "snags" -- huge tree limbs and trunks in the rivers -- caused frequent accidents.
	www.publicforuminstitute.org /nde/news/innovators/shreve.htm (198 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / THE ATTACK ON THE GREAT RAFT
		Shreve’s steamboats were highly successful in the 1820s but were unable to move in safety because of the innumerable snags that had accumulated in the rivers over the centuries.
		Shreve was in charge of other river improvement work simultaneously with the Red River project and used the two snag boats continuously as he waited for permission to return to the Raft.
		Shreve described this segment of the Great Raft in one of his letters: “A deposit of mud had accumulated to such extent as to cover a large portion of the timber, on which the willow and cottonwood had sprung up and taken root on the logs of which the raft was composed.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/it/1988/3/1988_3_10.shtml (3868 words)

	Henry Miller Shreve Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Henry Miller Shreve (1785-1851), American steamboat designer and builder, improved water transportation and navigation on the western rivers.
		Henry Shreve was born on Oct. 21, 1785, in Burlington County, N.J. When he was 3 years old, the family moved to western Pennsylvania.
		Shreve owned and operated keelboats and barges in the years when Robert Fulton was developing the first steamboat.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/henry-miller-shreve (426 words)

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		RACKET SHREVE is a Salem, MA native who graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Illustration.
		Made for R. Shreve from copper in roof construction of the old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel demolished in 1930 to be replaced by Empire State.
		Shreves and Corwin were apparently photographers in Bushnell as there are other known photographs by this studio.
	appling.kent.edu /ShreveHistory/Museum-Image-Library.xml (752 words)

	No. 1258: Inventing the Riverboat
		Yet there he's overshadowed by Henry Shreve, whose namesake is Shreveport, Louisiana.
		These were still deep-hulled keelboats, and Shreve was one of their captains.
		That's because, long after he'd become the major riverboat builder, Shreve took on the job of clearing a vast natural log jam which had, for centuries, plugged a 140-mile stretch of the Red River.
	www.uh.edu /engines/epi1258.htm (570 words)

	Viola Longerbone Ancestry
		On his fathers side he was descended from Thomas Sheriff (Shreve), who first appears in the records of a suit at law in New England in 1641, and who headed a line of Shreve numerous and prominent in colonial New Jersey.
		The order must be conjectured from the dates of their marriages shown on the church records of the Society of Friends in Burlington County, assuming the sons married at the age of twenty one and the daughters at eighteen, or thereabouts.
		Caleb Shreve devised to each: Thomas, "my eldest son;" Joshua, Joseph, Caleb, Jonathan, "my son-in-law" Benjamin Scattergood, Mary Gibbs and Sarah Ogborne, five shillings; my son David Shreve, one good cow -- said bequests are designated as "completing his (or her) portion" --undoubtedly referring to the farms given them in his lifetime.
	www.geocities.com /cetbus/cet5B.html (4592 words)

	Archives - Guide to the Collections
		Henry Miller Shreve was one of the founders of Shreveport and the Superintendent of Western Waterway Improvement for the Ohio, Mississippi and Red Rivers; he was also an inventor of two battering-ram steam vessels instrumental in removing the Great Raft of the Red River.
		Included are about 250 letters from Henry Shreve to the War Dept. relating to navigation on the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red Rivers, along with statements of accounts, estimates of funds, and reports of work accomplished.
		Henry Marshall (1805-1864) was a wealthy slave holder of Land’s End Plantation; member of Louisiana Senate and State Secession Convention; member of Provisional Congress and the First Regular Congress of the Confederate States of America.
	www.lsus.edu /library/archives/guide/coll001.htm (800 words)

	The Great Raft (English) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Meanwhile, in the mid-1830s a steamboat builder and river captain named Henry Miller Shreve (1785-1851) began systematically removing it, a task that was continued by others until the latter part of the 19th century.
		In 1807 Shreve extended the fur trade between St. Louis and Philadelphia via keelboat.
		Shreve was one of the founders, in 1837, of the city on the Red River that bears his name, Shreveport, Louisiana.
	www.lewis-clark.org /FREEMANCUSTIS/ILLUS-E/fr_raftE.htm (549 words)

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		The riverboat that conquered the Ohio and the Mississippi was the brainchild of Capt. Henry Miller Shreve, a riverman born and bred on the banks of the Monongahela when a man's muscle was the only power on the river, save the wind and current.
		Skeptics told Shreve the boat was hopelessly top heavy and took bets that the Washington would turn turtle as soon as it slipped down the ways.
		The 9-foot channel stands Henry Shreve's principal — he built a boat to fit the river — on its head by rebuilding the river to fit the boats.
	www.winonadailynews.com /articles/2004/05/02/news/02news.prt (1324 words)

	Louisiana Communities: SHREVEPORT
		Captain Henry Miller Shreve arrives on the Red River to remove the log jam which is 165 miles long, extending from Loggy Bayou to Hurricane Bluffs
		The removal of the raft by Captain Henry Miller Shreve opens the Red River to navigation and makes Shreveport an important center of trade and a gateway to the West.
		The city of Shreveport is founded by Shreve Town Co. and is named for Captain Henry Miller Shreve.
	www.enlou.com /communities/shreveport.htm (276 words)

	An outstanding high school breaks the logjam of mediocrity - Captain Shreve High School American Education - Find ...
		In 1833 Captain Henry Miller Shreve of Louisiana found a way to break up a great raft of floating debris on the Red River in the northwest corner of the state.
		A century and a half later, Captain Shreve High School in that city is helping to break up the logjam of mediocrity in which American education has been mired.
		With 1,050 PTA members for a student body of 1,500, Captain Shreve's active PTA chapter is the largest in the state.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1011/is_v20/ai_3285492 (871 words)

	Community, Shreveport, Louisiana - Personal Injury Lawyers, DUI, DWI, Speeding Tickets, Negligence
		Shreveport, Louisiana, was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company, a corporation established to develop a town at the juncture of the newly navigable Red River and the Texas Trail, an overland route into the newly independent Republic of Texas and, prior to that time, into Mexico.
		In Shreve's honor the Shreve Town Company and the village of Shreve Town were named.
		Shreveport's original boundaries were contained within a parcel of land sold to the Shreve Town Company by the indigenous Caddo Indians in 1835.
	www.batonrougelawyer.com /shreveportlouisianaattorney.html (425 words)

	St. Louis Steamboats
		Henry Kayser was the foremost civil engineer in St. Louis before the Civil War.
		Henry Miller Shreve, Superintendent of Western River Improvements invented a boat to pull large snags from the river.
		Henry Miller Shreve spent his last days in St. Louis, dying at the home of his son-in-law, Walker Randolph Carter (his daughter being Rebecca).
	www.usgennet.org /usa/mo/county/stlouis/steamboat.htm (2551 words)

	Henry Miller Shreve
		You are in: Museum of History >> Hall of North and South Americans >> Henry Miller Shreve
		SHREVE, Henry Miller, inventor, born in Burlington county, New Jersey, 21 October, 1785" died in St. Louis, Missouri, 6 March, 1854.
		He was educated in western Pennsylvania, and as a boy became interested in the navigation of western rivers.
	www.famousamericans.net /henrymillershreve (553 words)

	Shreveport City History
		The Red River had been cleared by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, commanding the US Army Corps of Engineers, of the 180 mile long raft of debris that had clogged its channel since time immemorial.
		On March 20, 1839 the village of Shreve Town was incorporated as the town of Shreveport.
		The original townsite consisted of sixty-four city blocks divided by eight streets running west from the Red River and eight streets running south from Cross Bayou, a tributary of the red River.
	www.ci.shreveport.la.us /history.htm (398 words)

	Dave Shreve and Nancy Thompson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, I have been able to follow the issue of Dave Shreve and Nancy Thompson quite well and have begun to make it complete with various documentation.
		Elder Robert Shreve married four times and fathered 22 children between the years of 1830 and 1872.
		My Great Grandfather, John Stadler Shreve, was the second son of the old Baptist preacher and his second wife, Betty Carter.
	www.vci.net /~igarrott/dshreve.htm (311 words)

	Welcome to Jamestown, North Dakota
		Shreve grew up on the Ohio River and supported his family by trapping beaver pelts.
		One of the major limitations to waterway travel was the years of fallen trees or snags that limited or increase damage to early steamboat travel.
		By the way Henry Miller Shreve may not be a common name for you but the City of Shreveport, Louisiana was named after him.
	www.jamestownnd.com /city/forestry.php (9588 words)

	ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: PREMIER LIBRARY SOURCES
		The section extending from Kingshighway to Sublette Avenue was renamed in honor of Henry Shaw in 1881.
		Appearing in the Florence subdivision of 1853, it was named in honor of Philip Henry Sheridan (1831-1888), an outstanding Union Army cavalry general in the Civil War.
		Honored Henry Miller Shreve (1783-1857), steamboat owner, inventor and river navigation authority, when it was opened as part of the subdivision of the Shreve Estate in 1869.
	www.slpl.lib.mo.us /libsrc/s-street.htm (3961 words)

	Shreveport, Louisiana (Cities)
		Shreveport was founded in 1836 by the Shreve Town Company at the junction of the recently cleared Red River and the Texas Trail.
		The river had been rendered navigable by Captain Henry Miller Shreve of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
		In 1839, the village of Shreve Town was incorporated as the town of Shreveport.
	www.ohwy.com /la/s/shrevepo.htm (323 words)

	Shreveport Bossier Convention & Tourist Bureau - Overview of the Cities
		Early pioneers came to the area today known as Shreveport and Bossier City more than a century and a half ago, recognizing the value of the fertile land along the Red River.
		Migration to this area increased after Captain Henry Miller Shreve, a steam boat captain and superintendent of Western River Improvement, cleared a great logjam known as the "Great Raft" in the 1830s.
		Captain Shreve's work opened the area to commerce, marking the beginning of growth and prosperity for the area.
	www.shreveport-bossier.org /overview.html (433 words)

	Top20Shreveport.com - Your Top20Guide to Shreveport, LA.
		Shreveport was originally contained within the boundaries of a section of land sold to the company by the indigenous Caddo Indians in the year of 1835.
		Their attacks on fixed hard targets and the famed Iraqi Republican Guard Medina Division using state of the art JDAMs and other munitions marked a new era in U.S. air power where precision guided munitions were used more than "dumb" bombs with devastating effect.
		Captain Shreve High School is one of the largest high schools in Shreveport and boasts Al E. Gator as its mascot.
	top20shreveport.com (3715 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - Commerce and the Steamboat / Part 1
		One of the earliest steam-powered Enterprises was a sternwheel steamboat built in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Daniel French and later owned by Mississippi steamboat pioneer Henry Miller Shreve.
		She was launched on February 23, 1825 and left Falmouth, England on August 16, 1825, under Captain James Henry Johnston.
		She stopped at Cape Town, South Africa on October 13 and, after surviving storms in the Indian Ocean, arrived at Calcutta on December 7.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych06a.htm (991 words)

	Railroad barons, railway tycoons and financiers
		William Henry Vanderbilt - the inception of the Vanderbilt dynasty
		Yet, as the country grew in size and people, the needs for an efficient transportation system linking the coastal cities with the rich agricultural interior countryside became more and more pressing.
		he first significant progress in national transportation was river steam navigation, pioneered by Fulton and Livingston on the Hudson and Henry Miller Shreve on the Mississippi.
	www.raken.com /american_wealth/railroad_barons/railroad_tycoons1.asp (417 words)

	Shreveport - Bossier City - Area Highlights - AOL City Guide
		Location: About 180 miles E of Dallas, TX Notable: Shreveport is named for Henry Miller Shreve, a steamboat captain who cleared the clogged Red River to open the area for trade.
		Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum honors those who fought in the unit from World War II to the present.
		Shreve Memorial Library is a source for local history, genealogy, and general information.
	cityguide.aol.com /shreveport/areahighlights (313 words)

	Shreveport, Louisiana
		Shreveport was incorporated in 1839 and named for Capt. Henry Miller Shreve who cleared the log jam that had choked the Red River.
		The town was a hub for cotton and in 1906, when oil was discovered, it became a major oil producer.
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	www.planetware.com /louisiana/shreveport-us-la-s.htm (74 words)

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