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About Jean-Gabriel Cerré
- Jean-Gabriel Cerré (August 12, 1734 – April 4, 1805) was a Quebec-born merchant in the Illinois Country and St.
- Louis.The son of Joseph Serré and Marie-Madeleine Picard, he was born in Montreal.
- Cerré established himself in Kaskaskia as a merchant in 1755 but retained business and personal connections with Montreal.
- He was pragmatic in his politics, supporting the British authorities while they were in control and transferring his loyalties to the Americans after George Rogers Clark seized control of the region.
- In 1779, he was named a justice of the peace for the district.
- However, the new government was not able to maintain order and, around the end of 1779, he moved to St.
- Louis, then under Spanish control.
- His business prospered and he became one of the wealthiest and most influential persons in the area.
- Control of the Louisiana territory later passed to France, who sold it to the United States in 1803.
- Cerré died in St.
- Louis two years later at the age of 70.His daughter Marie-Anne married Pierre-Louis Panet, a Montreal notary, and his daughter Marie-Thérèse married Auguste Chouteau, founder of St.
- Louis.
- His youngest daughter Julia married Antoine Pierre Soulard, the king's surveyor for the upper Louisiana territory.Cerre Street in St.
- Louis was named after Jean-Gabriel Cerré.
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