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About Ramsay Crooks
- Ramsay Crooks (2 January 1787 – 6 June 1859) immigrated to Canada from Greenock in Scotland.
- He was the son of William Crooks and Margaret Ramsay.
- In 1803 he worked in a trading post on the Great Lakes.
- He helped W.
- Price Hunt to organize and lead an overland trip to Astoria in the Oregon Country for John Jacob Astor in 1809 through 1813, as a partner in the Pacific Fur Company.
- He became general manager of the American Fur Company in 1817 and was president of the company from 1834–1859.
- While traveling for the fur trade company he dealt with many Native American tribes.
- He married Abanokue, the daughter of an Ojibwa Chieftain.
- They had a daughter, Hester Crooks.
- Abanokue died around 1825.
- Crooks then married Emilie Pratte, they had nine children together.
- Emily, Marguerite, Virgina, Ramsey, Bernard, William, Sylvester, Charles and Julia.
- He spent his final years in New York.
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