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as he did not like the climate nor were there financial inducements for 
his doing so. He was now his own master and decided to go north and 
try his fortune in the then small and remote French trading post known 
as St. Louis. He accordingly embarked upon the Maid of New Orleans, 
and after a long and tedious voyage landed at St. Louis on May 3, 1819. 
Fic. 16. UWenry SHaw; from a watercolor painting at the Missouri Botanical 
Garden, by permission of the Director. 
He began business on the second floor of a building which he found 
for rent, and for a time lived, cooked and sold his small stock of cutlery 
in this one room. The capital with which he bought his first stock of 
goods was furnished by his uncle. While Mr. Shaw’s main object at 
this time was to make money, and while he denied himself many youth- 
ful enjoyments, he still did not thus deny himself beyond reasonable 
limits. 
the balance sheet for 
‘ne | iness, and when 
He had been succeeding in busin t gain for the 
1839 was struck it showed to his own great surprise albert 41 there 
year of $25,000. His figures were gone over again and agen until the 
could be no doubt of the fact. It seemed to him that this was more 
umstances ought to make in a single 
year.” Accordingly, the following year, when opportunity icone 
closed out his business. At this time he was forty years . nd the , 
ally and mentally unimpaired, and vigorous, a free = wee hc 
sessor of $250,000, equivalent to more than $1,000,000 a P 
time. 
money than any man in my cire 
