François Chouteau
François Chouteau (1797 - 1838) is traditionally credited as being the founder with Kansas City. With his wife, Berenice Chouteau, it is often quoted as being one of the first white colonists of Kansas City. He was the nephew of Rene-Auguste Chouteau.
In 1821, it created a permanent commercial station in large the Charnière which forms today the industrial district of north, crossed nowadays by the Chauteau avenue. It called its station the village of Kansas .
When the Indians agreed to leave the six miles more in the west of Missouri to the confluence of Kansas, the area was called the unloading of Chouteau . In 1826, after a flood, Chouteau moved its commercial station towards higher grounds, close to the current intersection between the avenue Troost and the river.
Its family financed the first Catholic church of the area, which was located on the coast of quality at the current intersection between the eleventh avenue and the street of Pennsylvania. The Cathedral of the Immaculate-Design, seat of the Archdiocese of Kansas City and Saint-Joseph, now occupies the ground of the old church.
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