Nathan Myrick Explained

Nathan Myrick (July 7, 1822 in Westport, New York – June 4, 1903 in St. Paul, Minnesota) was a fur trader who founded La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1841. Myrick was in the fur trade in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin before traveling north to establish a fur trading post in what is now La Crosse. In 1849, he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to establish more fur trading posts.^{[1] [2]} He was a brother of Andrew Myrick, who was killed on the first day at the Attack at the Lower Sioux Agency.^[3]

Sources

• News: La Crosse Chronicle. La Crosse, Wisconsin. Nathan Myrick Founder of City Is Dead. June 4, 1903. . Courtesy of the La Crosse Public Library Archives..
• Web site: Nathan Myrick. Wisconsin Historical Dictionary. 3 August 2012 .

External links

• Articles about Nathan Myrick, Wisconsin State Historical Society
• The Lumbering Industry of La Crosse, Wisconsin 1841–1905, Selma Sather Casberg, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, 1953
• Nathan Myrick, 1822 - 1903

Notes and References

1. Web site: Downtown Mainstreet Inc.
2. Web site: Brief History of La Crosse County. https://web.archive.org/web/20071013124207/http://lacrosselibrary.org/genealogy/laxhistory/Ethnicity.asp. 2007-10-13.
3. Book: Memoirs of La Crosse County. Benjamin F. Bryant. 1907 . Western Historical Association .