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J. W. Ellis,
History of Jackson County, 1910
Volume I, pages 370-371
CAPTAIN JOHN H. WEBER.
Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of a Remarkable Man
Discoverer of the Great Salt Lake
The subject of this sketch was born in the town of Altona, then a part of the kingdom of Denmark, in 1779.
The boy received a fairly good education and grew to a vigorous and well developed manhood. While quite young he ran away to sea, and for years sailed the briny deep. He was captain and commander of a passenger ship before he was twenty-one years old, and in very troublous times, too, owing to the wars then being waged between England and France on land and sea.
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He commanded sailing vessels for nearly six years. In 1810 he settled in the United States and got married five years later on. About this time he became a resident of St. Louis for the purpose of hunting, trapping and trading with the Indians in the Rocky Mountains.
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