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The Sublette family descended from the Soblet family, a French Huguenot family who emigrated from France (Ardennes region) to America, initially in Virginia, in the early 1700. [citation needed] William Sublette was born on September 21, 1798, near Stanford, Lincoln County, Kentucky, from Philip Allen and
Sublette is a variant of the French language surname Soblet. Other variations include Sublet, Sublett, and Soublet. Other variations include Sublet, Sublett, and Soublet. In the United States, the Soblet family name traces back to French Huguenot refugee Abraham Soblet and his family, who arrived in Virginia in 1700 and settled in Manakintown [ 1 ]
Milton Green Sublette (c. 1801–1837), was an American frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, explorer, and mountain man. He was the second of five Sublette brothers prominent in the western fur trade; William , Andrew , and Solomon.
Meek as a young man The old Joe Meek, as depicted in Frances Fuller Victor's Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and a Life on the Frontier, seeks employment with William Sublette. Joseph Meek was born on February 9, 1810, to James Meek and Spica Walker in Washington County, Virginia, near the Cumberland Gap.
When Campbell returned to the west, he was asked by William Sublette to form a partnership. Sublette even agreed to an odd relationship for the first year, making Robert a lieutenant but having him purchase his own goods for rendezvous, using the sale of this merchandise as the stake he needed to officially join the business. [5]
Fort William, the first Fort Laramie, as it looked prior to 1840. Painting from memory by Alfred Jacob Miller. The original fort was constructed in the 1830s, probably in 1833–1834 by William Sublette and Robert Campbell. The overland fur trade was still prosperous when Jim Bridger and Tom Fitzpatrick bought the place. [5] [6]
Smith, Jackson and William Sublette bought the firm in 1826, changing its name to Smith, Jackson and William Sublette. [2] They sold out to Bridger, Milton Sublette, Fitzpatrick and two others in 1830, at which time the enterprise was given the name by which it is most commonly referred to. [2] [5] [6] The payment method was uniquely designed ...
William Whitley (August 4, 1749 – October 5, 1813), was an American pioneer in what became Kentucky, in the colonial and early Federal period. Born in Virginia, he was the son of Scottish Presbyterian immigrants from northern Ireland, then the Ulster Plantation .