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Nicolas de Finiels, an expatriate French engineer who served the Spanish monarchy during the late colonial era, remains little known.

Louis Bolduc was born near Quebec City in the village of St. Joachim around 1739 (his baptismal record is not extant), son to Zacharie and Jeanne Meunier Bolduc. Young Louis fled the St.

            Otto Widmann published the Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri, the first comprehensive book on the state’s birds,

Following the Louisiana Purchase, Charles de Hault Delassus, Upper Louisiana’s last Spanish lieutenant governor, had the unenviable task of dismantling the Spanish regime and transferring authority to the incoming US officials.

Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that office twice, was born in Navarre, Spain, on March 10, 1739.

Israel Dodge exemplified the adventurous spirit of a young, expanding United States at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, on May 23, 1820, James Buchanan Eads became an engineer of great renown, remarkable for the variety of his accomplishments.