Complex and often contradictory, the incarnations of Meriwether Lewis provide insight into the man behind the titles. Upon the death of his stepfather, Lewis, not yet out of his teens, became the head of a household that included his mother and four siblings.
During this time, he met and befriended one of his commanding officers, William Clark. Army life suited Lewis and by he had been promoted to captain. Secretary to the President: Shortly after his election, President Jefferson invited Lewis to serve as his personal secretary.
Student: In , preparing for his journey to the Pacific Ocean, Lewis spent a month in Philadelphia studying with the eminent scientists of the day. His education included intensive courses in medicine, preservation of plant and animal samples, the use of navigation instruments for determining latitude and longitude, and the study of fossils. The Boers, also known as Afrikaners, were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers of southern Africa.
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After marrying, they settled in The minute program, which from its inception has been broadcast The death toll from a yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia hits on October 11, The expedition began on May 14, , and returned in the late summer of In , Lewis returned to Washington for several events celebrating the success of the expedition, also recognizing Lewis's personal merit. He intended at that time to start organizing his journal and field notes for publication.
He disseminated his celestial observations and plant and animal specimens that the party had brought back to various scientists for further examination, analysis, and preservation. President Jefferson appointed him Governor of Louisiana, a territory the United States had acquired shortly before the expedition departed in the Louisiana Purchase of In , as Lewis traveled from New Orleans to Washington to see Jefferson and apprise him of his progress on publishing the journals, Lewis died.
There is some controversy over whether the governor committed suicide, or whether he was murdered as part of some conspiracy, but either way, on 18 October , Meriwether Lewis was found dead of several gunshot wounds in Grinder's Inn, in Natchez Trace, Tennesee. Abrams, Rochonne. Bednar, Michael. Dillon, Richard. Meriwether Lewis: A Biography. Coward-McCann, Inc. New York, New York: Hendrix, James. Lewis, Mary Newton. Saindon, Bob. Most historians agree that he committed suicide; others are convinced he was murdered.
The National Park Service is currently reviewing the exhumation request. Black powder pistols have been test-fired, forgeries claimed and mitochondrial DNA extracted from living relatives. He and Clark had finished their expedition three years earlier; Lewis, who was by then a governor of the large swath of land that constituted the Upper Louisiana Territory, was on his way to Washington, D.
By some accounts, Lewis arrived at the inn with servants; by others, he arrived alone. That night, Mrs. She later said she saw a wounded Lewis crawling around, begging for water, but was too afraid to help him. He died, apparently of bullet wounds to the head and abdomen, shortly before sunrise the next day.
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