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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), St. Louis, (search)
ions. The population by the United States census shows as follows: 1810, 1,400; 1820, 4,598; 1830, 6,694; 1840, 16,469; 1850, 77,860; 1860, 160,773; 1870, 310,864; 1880, 350,518; 1890, 451,770; and in 1900, 575,238. St. Louis received its name from Pierre Ligueste Laclede in 1764, when he established it as a post of the Louisiana Fur Company. Five years later Spanish troops, under Captain Rios, took possession (Aug. 11, 1768), but exercised no civil functions pending the arrival of Don Pedro Piernas, who assumed the government, May 20, 1770. British troops and Indian allies attacked the city May 26, 1780, but were repulsed. The first territorial General Assembly met at the house of Joseph Robidoux, Dec. 7, 1812. Louisiana purchase Centennial. In 1900 it was proposed to hold a World's Fair in St. Louis, Mo., in 1903, to commeinorate the acquisition of Louisiana by President Jefferson. Congress appropriated $5,000,000 in aid of the enterprise upon condition that the city o
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
ouis, where he was a guest of St. Ange......1769 Blanchette, surnamed The Hunter, builds a log-hut on hills now occupied by the city of St. Charles, and establishes a military post under the governor of upper Louisiana......1769 Lieut.-Gov. Don Pedro Piernas arrives at St. Louis to assume the Spanish authority over upper Louisiana......1770 Francisco Crozat succeeds Piernas......1775 Don Ferdinando Leyba appointed governor to succeed Crozat......1778 Massacre of whites near St. LPiernas......1775 Don Ferdinando Leyba appointed governor to succeed Crozat......1778 Massacre of whites near St. Louis by Indians who, led by British, intended a general attack on the settlement, but were repulsed......May 26, 1780 Leyba removed and Francisco Crozat reinstated. Under his government St. Louis was regularly fortified......1780 Old St. Genevieve, which tradition says was founded by settlers from Kaskaskia in 1735, is destroyed by a flood, the inhabitants remove from river bottoms to the present site......1785 New Madrid, settled as early as 1780, is laid out on an extensive scale b