Marc Huehn, a pelt trader, was born in 1787 to a family of Indian slave traders, then a very popular and widely accepted trade. His ancestors immigrated near the Mississippi River half a century before Marc was born.

At a very young age, Marc Huehn already showed strong inclination towards his ancestors’ trade, more specifically on the side of trading with Indians. Mr Huehn often joined his father during his frequent visits at the Missouri River trade fairs and at the Kootanae Plains where they would trade iron goods, whiskey and beaver traps in exchange for horses, buffalo hides and beaver pelts. With his mind on the profits, his father returned to Mississippi with captured Sioux Indians who were later sold in public slave auctions.

At the age of 23, Marc Huehn joined John Jacob Astor’s Pacific Fur Company in New York City as a working partner. J.J. Astor and his partners decided to establish trading posts in Astoria, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii, Russia and China a year after Mr Huehn conferred with the company. Marc took charge of the Pacific Fur’s trading enterprise in Astoria where he worked alongside Duncan McDougall, one of the company’s partners. After a series of setbacks and losses, the Pacific Fur Company disintegrated and was sold to North West Company in 1812. Marc Huehn returned to Mississippi where he once again traded with the Plains Indians.

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