1. Benjamin O'Fallon was an Indian agent along the upper areas of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
38 Facts About Benjamin O'Fallon
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Benjamin O'Fallon interacted with Native Americans as a trader and Indian agent.
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Benjamin O'Fallon was against British trappers and traders operating in the United States and territories.
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Benjamin O'Fallon believed that the military should have taken a strong stance against the British and firm in negotiations with Native Americans.
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Benjamin O'Fallon collected Native American artifacts and paintings of tribe members by George Catlin.
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Benjamin O'Fallon's parents were James O'Fallon, an Irish immigrant, and Frances "Fanny" Clark O'Fallon, the sister of William and George Rogers Clark.
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Benjamin O'Fallon sought business schemes in St Louis with adventurers, French agents, and Spanish officials, like Edmond-Charles Genet, George Rogers Clark and General James Wilkinson.
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William was their guardian in 1808 and a year later William brought Benjamin O'Fallon and John to St Louis, where he was an Indian agent.
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Benjamin O'Fallon came to St Louis to be under the care of Dr Bernard G Farrar, her son-in-law.
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Benjamin O'Fallon died on June 19,1825, and was buried at the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St Louis.
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Benjamin O'Fallon established a business selling meat and flour in 1813 with James Kennerly, who was the brother of William Clark's second wife and cousin of his first wife.
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Benjamin O'Fallon built gristmills and sawmills north of St Louis in 1815, but sold the mills after one year.
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In 1816, Benjamin O'Fallon became a trader and special agent for the Sioux and other tribes on the upper Mississippi River.
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At Prairie du Chien, Benjamin O'Fallon kept track of British traders and their relationships with Native Americans.
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In 1818, Benjamin O'Fallon took British trader Robert Dickson in custody, put him in shackles, and took him to St Louis.
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Benjamin O'Fallon declared that he was trading illegally on American territory and considered him the most treacherous of the British traders for provoking Native Americans against Americans.
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In 1819, Benjamin O'Fallon became an Indian agent, headquartered in Council Bluffs.
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Benjamin O'Fallon was assigned to the Yellowstone expedition, led by General Henry Atkinson and Stephen Harriman Long.
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At the time, Benjamin O'Fallon was an Indian agent for the Otoe, Omaha, Pawnee, and Missouria tribes.
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Atkinson and Benjamin O'Fallon had differences of opinion over Native American policy and the degree to which a military commander held dominion over the Indian agent.
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Benjamin O'Fallon believed that British fur traders who crossed into American territory and Native Americans should be dealt with firmly and with a show of force.
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Benjamin O'Fallon was an advocate for American trader's rights and was against government-run trading posts.
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Benjamin O'Fallon acquired the honorary title of Major for his position as an Indian agent.
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Benjamin O'Fallon held councils with the Pawnee, Omaha, Otoe, Missouria, Kansa, and Iowa people in 1819 and 1820.
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Benjamin O'Fallon took a number of Native American chiefs to Washington, DC, by 1822.
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Benjamin O'Fallon saw this as an outrageous plan that would undercut white traders and disturb the peaceful and collaborative commerce with local tribes.
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Forty three injured men made their way to Fort Atkinson, where Benjamin O'Fallon chastised the men for leaving Ashley's party to the Arikara.
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Benjamin O'Fallon was in poor health in 1824, but he joined the second expedition from Council Bluffs to the mouth of the Yellowstone.
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The objective was to shift reliance on British traders to American fur traders, but Atkinson and Benjamin O'Fallon had different viewpoints on how to meet the goal.
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Atkinson and Benjamin O'Fallon got into screaming arguments, one time during a meal they brandished their cutlery at each other.
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Benjamin O'Fallon resigned his position as an Indian agent in December 1826, with John Doughtery replacing him in 1827.
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Benjamin O'Fallon moved to the Sulphur Springs area where he established the Indian Retreat Plantation in 1834.
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Benjamin O'Fallon built gristmills, operated a small plantation, and sought other sources of income, but he did not become wealthy like his brother John O'Fallon.
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Benjamin O'Fallon continued to support American fur interests and supported Andrew Jackson's political career; They had become friends during O'Fallon's 1819 trip to Washington, DC.
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Benjamin O'Fallon's house at Indian Retreat Plantation "was a veritable museum of Native American material culture".
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Benjamin O'Fallon purchased the fossil and delivered it to University of Bonn naturalist Georg August Goldfuss for research, who published a study in 1845.
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In 1823, Benjamin O'Fallon married Sophie Lee, the daughter of Patrick Lee, an auctioneer from St Louis.
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Benjamin O'Fallon's correspondence are among the O'Fallon Family Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.