Everything about Solomon Laurent Juneau totally explained
Solomon Laurent Juneau, or
Laurent-Salomon Juneau, (
August 9,
1793 –
November 14,
1856) was a fur trader, land speculator and politician who helped found the city of
Milwaukee,
Wisconsin. He was born in
Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.
Juneau settled an area east of the
Milwaukee River called Juneautown in 1818, which later joined with
George H. Walker's Walker's Point and
Byron Kilbourn's Kilbourntown to incorporate the City of Milwaukee. In 1837 he started the
Milwaukee Sentinel, which would become the oldest continuously operating business in
Wisconsin. He was the first
mayor of Milwaukee from 1846 until 1847 and its first
Postmaster.
In 1820 Solomon Juneau married Josette, the daughter of
Jacques Vieau, a fur trader who had built a trading post overlooking the
Menomonee River Valley years before. He is buried at
Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
His nephew is
Joseph Juneau who founded the city of Juneau, Alaska.
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