Pointe de Sable, Jean Baptiste, 1745?-1818

LC control no.	n 82139260
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Pointe de Sable, Jean Baptiste, 1745?-1818 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	De Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe, 1745?-1818 Du Sable, Jean Baptiste, 1745?-1818 DuSable, Jean, 1745?-1818 DuSable, Jean Baptiste, 1745?-1818 Pointe du Sable, Jean Baptiste, 1745?-1818 Sable, Jean Baptiste du, 1745?-1818 Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe de, 1745?-1818
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1745?
Death date	1818-08-28
Place of birth	San Marc (Haiti)
Place of death	Saint Charles (Mo.)
Profession or occupation	Explorers Merchants
Found in	National De Saible Memorial Society, Chicago. Some historical facts about Jean Baptiste Point De Sable, 1953. Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (nègre affranchi d'Haīti, fondateur de Chicago) Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895: From the Colonial Period to the Age of Frederick Douglass, accessed December 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Du Sable, Jean Baptiste Pointe; explorer, merchant; born 1745 in San Marc, Haiti; reputed to be the founder of Chicago, had arrived in North America by the 1760s; a skilled fur trader, in 1773 he purchased a trading post and farm near Peoria, Illinois, soon thereafter, he built another trading post and home at the future site of Chicago, from where he traded as far away as Michilimackinac, Michigan; the first private nonprofit black museum in America, the DuSable Museum of African-American History, was opened in his name (1961); the state of Illinois recognized him as the man who founded Chicago (1968); a U.S. postage stamp with a conjectural portrait of Du Sable was created (1987); died 28 August 1818 in Saint Charles, Missouri, United States) La historia de Jean Baptiste DuSable, 1994: title page (Jean Baptiste DuSable) page 1 of cover (Jean Baptiste Du Sable) page 8 (Jean DuSable; Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable)