A trader chartered a steamer at New Orleans and took a cargo of sugar up the Mississippi to the lead regions at Dubuque.

The evidence

• “Eeturning south, he engaged in gold buying and in various forms of business until 1839. In the early spring of that year he chartered a steamer at New Orleans, loaded it with sugar, and took that cargo up the Mississippi to the lead regions at Dubuque.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 592 / book p. 1076

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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