(Note: birth date given in original as "ca. 1760"; death date given as "ca. 1840.") fur trader, merchant and outfitter, b. Montreal, Canada. He lived in Green Bay from 1792 to 1813 or 1814. At first a clerk for a Montreal firm, in 1797 he set up a business for himself, assisted by his nephew, John Lawe (q.v.). He ran a supply store and hired numerous voyageurs to trade over a wide area. He provided the Green Bay region with a gristmill and sawmill (1805), and later affiliated with John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. The War of 1812 and conditions after it ruined his business. Jewish Encyclopedia, 3 (1903); CoIls. State Hist. Soc. Wis., 7 (1876), 10 (1888), 18 (1908), 19 (1910), 20 (1911); L. P. Kellogg, British Regime in Wis. (Madison, 1935); WPA MS.

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