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William H. Ashley

ASHLEY, William H., congressman, born in Powhatan County, Virginia, about 1778; died near Booneville, Maine, 26 March. 1838. He received a public-school education, and in 1808 migrated to Upper Louisiana (now Missouri), where he became a Brigadier-General of militia. He was an enterprising fur-trader, and in 1822 organized a company, 300 strong, which penetrated to the Rocky mountains and formed trading relations with the Indian tribes. He realized a handsome fortune from this venture. He was lieutenant governor of Illinois in 1820. and he represented Missouri in congresses in 1831-'7.

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