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Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as ...
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable (born 1750?, St. Marc, Sainte-Domingue [now Haiti]?—died August 28, 1818, St. Charles, Missouri, U.S.) was a pioneer trader who founded the settlement that later became the city of Chicago. He is considered the “Father of Chicago.”
Feb 3, 2022 · Before the Chicago City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive in June 2021, recognition for Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable was sprinkled throughout the city: a high school, an outdoor statuary bust, and the DuSable Museum of African American History located on Chicago's South Side.
Jun 29, 2021 · A stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 1978 features Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable (circa 1745-1818), the first non-Indigenous settler of an area called Eschikagou, now...
Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable: Father of Chicago. USPS Commemorative Postal Stamp of Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable (born c. 1745 - d. 8/28/1818) According to Native American tradition, an African man born in Santa Domingo (Haiti) was the first non-native American to settle at the city that is now called Chicago.
Feb 12, 2007 · Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, History of Chicago, Volume I (Illinois: Self-published, 1884) by Alfred Theodore Andreas. Jean-Baptiste-Point DuSable, a frontier trader, trapper and farmer is generally regarded as the first resident of what is now Chicago, Illinois.
The first permanent settler in Chicago was a black man named Jean Baptiste Point DuSable. He may have been born on the island of Haiti around 1745 to a French mariner and a mother who was a slave of African descent. DuSable was educated in France and then, in the early 1770s, sailed to New Orleans.
