Creoles of St Louis, Author: Paul Beckwith, Call Number: R929.1 B39
This book contains the history and genealogy of Chouteau family of New Orleans.
Beckwith, Paul. Creaoles of St. Louis. Nixon-Jones Printing Co. St. Louis. 1893.
MILIE LABBADIE. 565. Born in St. Louis in 1781, died there Nov. 3, 1844. Married May 13, 1794, Bernard Pratte, who was born in St. Genevieve in 1772, and died in St. Louis April 1, 1836. Son of
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Jean Baptist and Madeline Lalumandiere Pratte. Her father, Alphonse Lalumandiere, married Aimee de la Haye, whose family were of the old French nobility. Bernard Pratte came to St. Louis in 1893, where he engaged in commercial life.

570. Sylvestre S. Pratte, born in St. Louis, Sept.
22, 1779, and was in the employ of the
American Fur Company for many years;
he died near Pike's Peak, Colo., June,
1828. He married Odile de Lassus
of Ste. Genevieve, who died June 5, 1842,
daughter of Camille de Lassus, younger
brother of the last Spanish Governor of
Upper Louisiana. After her husband's
death she married Louis Valle of Ste.
Genevieve.
571. Bernard Pratte, Jr., married Marie Louise
Chenie.
572. Emilie Pratte, married Ramsay Crooks.
573. Therese Pratte, married W. B. Alexander,
secondly, Louis D. Peugnet.
574. Celeste Pratte, married Stephen F. Nidelet.
575. Pelagie Pratte, married Louis V. Bogy.
576. Aimee Pratte, married Joseph Blaine.


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Creoles of St Louis, Author: Paul Beckwith, Call Number: R929.1 B39
This book contains the history and genealogy of Chouteau family of New Orleans.
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BERNARD PRATTE, JR. 571. Born in St. Louis, Dec. 17, 1803, died there July, 1887. In early life he was engaged in the fur trade, and was interested in the American Fur Company; he owned at one time a steamboat plying in the New Orleans trade. He was elected president of the Bank of Missouri., and was mayor of the city of St. Louis from 1844 to '45. During his mayoralty, occured the great flood,
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and Mayor Pratte donated his entire salary to the sufferers. In 1850 he retired from active life and purchased a farm in Montgomery County, Mo., where he died. Mr. Pratte was of commanding presence and courtly manners and was prominent in social life in the early days of St. Louis. He married, July 20, 1824, Marie Louise, daughter of Antoine and Marie Therese Papin Chenie.

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