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William Clark lived in St. Louis until he died in 1838 at the age of 68. He is remembered for his contributions to the Corps of Discovery expedition, such as his maps that served as the most accurate guides of the western territories until the 1840s, and his ethnographic studies of Indigenous peoples.
War of 1812 | Biography. William Clark. Title Captain; Superintendent of Indian Affairs. War & Affiliation War of 1812 / American. Date of Birth - Death August 1, 1770 – September 1, 1838.
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Aug 31, 2021 · On Sept. 1, 1838, William Clark died at the age of 68 in St. Louis, which is fittingly known as the “Gateway to the West.”. It is said that the entire city went into mourning and that his funeral procession was more than a mile long.
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He might have learned better, but in 1784 his family moved from Virginia, where the landed gentry were traditionally well educated, to Kentucky, which was then the virtual Western frontier of the United States. He was only fourteen, which was a bad time to have one’s formal education interrupted. Actually, terminatedis a better word in this instanc...
In the winter of 1804-05, Charles McKenzie, a young clerk with the North West Company of Canada, made the first of his four trips to the Knife River Villages on the “Mississouri” River. On that occasion he and his three companions—including François-Antoine Larocque—met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. His impression of the two captains highligh...
Jerome O. Steffen, William Clark: Jeffersonian Man on the Frontier.Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Robert B. Betts, “‘we commenced wrighting &c.’: A Salute to the Ingenious Spelling and Grammar of William Clark.” We Proceeded On, Vol. 6, No. 4 (November 1980).
On Sept. 1, 1838, William Clark died at the age of 69 after a brief illness in his son's home in St. Louis. He was buried with Masonic and military honors on his nephew's farm outside the city. Clark developed a reputation for fairness and honesty with whites and Indians alike.
Aug 30, 2019 · He died at sunrise. And that was how Meriwether Lewis, aged 35 and once co-captain of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition, met his untimely end.
Clark died of natural causes in St. Louis on September 1, 1838, and is buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. One hundred sixty-three years after his death, William Clark received a promotion. In 2001, President Clinton promoted Clark from Lieutenant to Captain.
