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Shreve, Henry Miller
Born: 1785 AD
Died: 1851 AD, at 65 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Captain, Naval Officer
Died: 1851 AD, at 65 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Captain, Naval Officer
1785 - Born in Columbus, New Jersey on the 21st of October.
1788 - On the 7th of July, the Shreves left New Jersey for their new home on property owned by George Washington in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
1814 - He became the captain of the Enterprise, Shreve departed Pittsburgh on the 21st of December, with a load of munitions for General Andrew Jackson to defend New Orleans against an invasion of British forces.
1817 - Shreve took the Washington from New Orleans to Louisville and returned to the Crescent City on the 12th of March.
- On the 25th of March, Shreve departed New Orleans and piloted the Washington upriver.
- On the 21st of April, Judge Dominic C. Hall declared that the court did not have jurisdiction and hence dismissed all of the suits.
1826 - Shreve was appointed Superintendent of Western River Improvements and charged with finding a solution to this problem.
1821 - He had been working on a design for a "snagboat".
1827 - He finally had it built.
1832 - Shreve was ordered by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, 150 miles of dead wood on the Red River.
1839 - Shreve successfully removed the Raft.
1841 - Shreve was relieved of his superintendent's duties by the nominally Whig U.S. President John Tyler.
1851 - Died on the 6th of March in the home of his son-in-law, Walker Randolph Carter, and is interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
1788 - On the 7th of July, the Shreves left New Jersey for their new home on property owned by George Washington in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
1814 - He became the captain of the Enterprise, Shreve departed Pittsburgh on the 21st of December, with a load of munitions for General Andrew Jackson to defend New Orleans against an invasion of British forces.
1817 - Shreve took the Washington from New Orleans to Louisville and returned to the Crescent City on the 12th of March.
- On the 25th of March, Shreve departed New Orleans and piloted the Washington upriver.
- On the 21st of April, Judge Dominic C. Hall declared that the court did not have jurisdiction and hence dismissed all of the suits.
1826 - Shreve was appointed Superintendent of Western River Improvements and charged with finding a solution to this problem.
1821 - He had been working on a design for a "snagboat".
1827 - He finally had it built.
1832 - Shreve was ordered by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, 150 miles of dead wood on the Red River.
1839 - Shreve successfully removed the Raft.
1841 - Shreve was relieved of his superintendent's duties by the nominally Whig U.S. President John Tyler.
1851 - Died on the 6th of March in the home of his son-in-law, Walker Randolph Carter, and is interred in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
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