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 | | He traded with the Indians, built the first frame house here in 1825, built a flour mill on Kickapoo Creek, and became county commissioner, a member of the House and Senate of the Illinois General Assembly, a justice of the peace, a banker, and a businessman. |
 | | Three years later, however, the fur trade was made a monopoly of the new Company of the West. |
 | | The posts in the west were to be permitted to trade with the Indians at Pimiteoui, Michillimackinac and Detroit, and the reopening of trade on the Illinois nearly coincided with the military occupation of the old fort. |
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