About: John Edgar (politician)

An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

John Edgar (ca. 1750–1832) was an Illinois pioneer and politician. He was born in Ireland. In 1776, he was the commander of a British ship in the Great Lakes. He resigned from the British Navy rather than fight against the Americans. Edgar settled at Fort Kaskaskia in 1784. He became a merchant, and built a flour mill. He shipped large quantities of flour from Illinois to New Orleans. Edgar was an Illinois delegate to the Legislature of the Northwest Territory. He also served as Justice of the Peace and Judge in Kaskaskia.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • جون إدغار (بالإنجليزية: John Edgar)‏ هو سياسي أمريكي، ولد في 1750، وتوفي في 1832. (ar)
  • John Edgar (ca. 1750–1832) was an Illinois pioneer and politician. He was born in Ireland. In 1776, he was the commander of a British ship in the Great Lakes. He resigned from the British Navy rather than fight against the Americans. Edgar settled at Fort Kaskaskia in 1784. He became a merchant, and built a flour mill. He shipped large quantities of flour from Illinois to New Orleans. Edgar was an Illinois delegate to the Legislature of the Northwest Territory. He also served as Justice of the Peace and Judge in Kaskaskia. In his time, Edgar was believed to have been the wealthiest man in Illinois. He held many large land claims around the State. Edgar County, Illinois was named in his honor. Although he probably never went there, there is an old story that he once bought and then sold the entire County. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 4201288 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 1742 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1062841239 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:title
  • Member of the Northwest Territory House of Representatives from Randolph County (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 1799 (xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • جون إدغار (بالإنجليزية: John Edgar)‏ هو سياسي أمريكي، ولد في 1750، وتوفي في 1832. (ar)
  • John Edgar (ca. 1750–1832) was an Illinois pioneer and politician. He was born in Ireland. In 1776, he was the commander of a British ship in the Great Lakes. He resigned from the British Navy rather than fight against the Americans. Edgar settled at Fort Kaskaskia in 1784. He became a merchant, and built a flour mill. He shipped large quantities of flour from Illinois to New Orleans. Edgar was an Illinois delegate to the Legislature of the Northwest Territory. He also served as Justice of the Peace and Judge in Kaskaskia. (en)
rdfs:label
  • جون إدغار (ar)
  • John Edgar (politician) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:namedFor of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License