Robert Stuart

Robert Stuart was the discoverer of the South Pass, Wyoming.

Book: Across the Great Divide : Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail Laton Mccartney (Author)

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Stuart, Robert, 1785–1843, American explorer, b. Scotland. He emigrated (1807) to Canada and became a fur trader. He joined in John Jacob Astor's Astoria venture, and in 1812 he led the overland party east. This party was the first known to have used the South Pass and to have followed the main route of the Oregon Trail. Later, as a partner in the American Fur Company, he directed trade around Mackinac, and he also did much for the development of Michigan.

See P. A. Rollins, ed., The Discovery of the Oregon Trail (1935, repr. 1972); K. A. Spaulding, ed., On the Oregon Trail (1953).

Read more: Robert Stuart — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0847013.html#ixzz1Pco4cxAE

http://www.thefurtrapper.com/robert_stuart.htm

http://www.wy.blm.gov/historictrails/popups/southpass.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pass

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Robert Stuart Memorial

Birth: Feb. 19, 1785 Callander Stirling, Scotland

Death: Oct. 29, 1848 Chicago Cook County Illinois, USA

Written by: Eleanor Stuart McKinney .

Robert Stuart/Stewart is my 3rd great-grandfather. The Parish Register: "1785 February 20 John Stewart and Mary Buchanan, his wife in Ruskachan, had a child baptised, called Robert. Register House, Edinburgh, Scotland - Extracted from the Records of the High Session of Balquhidder at Auchleshire this 25th day of September 1802 by Hugh W. Laurin

Born in a croft between King's House Hotel at Balquhidder and Strathyre. In 1807, when 22 years of age, he left Scotland went to Montreal to be employed as a clerk and to join his uncle, David Stuart, one of the agents of the Northwest Fur Co. and came to New York in July 1810. September 6, 1810 he sailed, with his uncle David Stuart, around the Horn to Astoria, and on July 29, 1812 Robert Stuart left Astoria for St. Louis, where he arrived April 30, 1813 - a distance he computed as 3,768 miles. He returned to New York June 23, 1813, and his marriage took place there a month later to my 3rd Great grandmother.

In 1817 the Stuarts moved to Michilimacinac, Michigan, where Robert Stuart was Agent for the American Fur Co. He retired from that in June 1834 and moved to Detroit with his family and aged uncle, David Stuart.

Robert went to Chicago in 1845, where he became Secretary of the Illinois and Michigan Canal Co. He died in Chicago, Oct. 29, 1848.

He had a 9th child named David Stuart, Br.Gen. Memorial #5892354

Politician. He served as Michigan's State Treasurer from 1840 to 1841. He was also an early explorer and fur trader. Also business partner to John Jacob Astor for many years.

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Spouse:

 Elizabeth Emma Sullivan Stuart (1792 - 1866)*

Children:

 Mary Elizabeth Stuart Turner (1814 - 1878)*

 David Stuart (1816 - 1868)*

 Catherine Kate Stuart Baker (1820 - 1853)*

 John Stuart (1822 - 1853)*

 Robert Stuart (1825 - 1863)*

 Marion Stuart (1828 - 1835)*

 William Maynard Stuart (1830 - 1836)*

 Celia Stuart (1832 - 1836)*

 William Maynard Stuart (1837 - 1838)*

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Inscription: New Cemetery, in March 1836. the inscription on his Monument in the Stuart Lot reads: "He leaves behind him the incentive of a good name and his record is on high."

Burial: Elmwood Cemetery Detroit Wayne County Michigan, USA Plot: Lot 18 Block 13 Section 1 New Cemetery.

Maintained by: Eleanor Stuart McKinney ... Originally Created by: Peterborough K Record added: Mar 11, 2003 Find A Grave Memorial# 7253704

Photos Added: Eleanor Stuart McKinney Dolan and Twist

Added to Geni by Janet Milburn 3/1/18 (Robert Stuart is my 10th cousin 6 times removed.)