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Post a Comment. His cabin is often depicted as a modest structure, but written descriptions of the property suggest that DuSable may have lived more than a modest life. According to original manuscripts documenting the sale of DuSable's property, the cabin was spacious, boasting a roomy salon with five rooms off each corner.
The property featured a large stone fireplace, bake and smoke houses, stables and huts for employees, along with a fenced garden and orchard.
Household furnishings included paintings, mirrors, and walnut furniture. He spoke Spanish, French, English, and several Native American dialects, which served him well as an entrepreneur and mediator. DuSable sold his estate on May 7, and returned to Peoria, Illinois. Clair River in Eastern Michigan.
Sometime in the late s DuSable married a Pottawatomie Indian woman, Kitihawa who was also called Catherine in a traditional Pottawatomie ceremony. The couple had a daughter, Susanne, and a son, Jean. The post became a major supply station for other traders in the Great Lakes region.
The DuSable cabin was filled with fine furniture and paintings indicating that the family had become prosperous for the time and region and DuSable was described as a large man who was also a wealthy trader.
In their grand-daughter became the first child born in what would become Chicago. Charles, Missouri which at the time was part of French Louisiana. He was commissioned by the French governor in Missouri to operate a ferry across the Missouri River. DuSable, however never prospered as he did in what would become Chicago. In he died almost penniless and was buried in a Catholic cemetery in St. Later Chicago would honor its first citizen.
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