| | Common-place: Constructing the House of Chouteau: Saint Louis |
 | | Therefore, when their four children arrived–Jean Pierre (1758), Marie Pelagie (1760), Marie Louise (1762), and Victoire (1764)–they were given the name Chouteau. |
| | Madame's grandson, Pierre Chouteau Jr., would use steamboats to consolidate the family firm's dominant position in the fur trade, eventually superseding and even acquiring John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. |
| | These gifts Pierre gave to his partner in consideration of his clerk Auguste's "faithful service" and "the affection" he bore the other four children of "dame Marie Thérèse Bourgeois and of Sieur René Choutaud." |
| www.common-place.org /vol-03/no-04/st-louis (4159 words) |
