As a result of the success of his design, Shreve was ordered in 1832 by Secretary of War Lewis Cass to clear the Great Raft, of dead wood on the Red River. The area of the Red River where the Raft was most concentrated is today his namesake city of Shreveport.
Later life
thumb|right|150px|Shreve's grave at Bellefontaine Cemetery
Shreve was twice married. There were three children from his first marriage to the former Mary M. Blair on February 28, 1811, and two children from his union with the former Lydia Rogers of Boston. Shreve spent his final years with his daughter Rebecca's family in St. Louis. He died in the home of his son-in-law, Walker Randolph Carter, and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
See also
- Mike Fink
- Monongahela and Ohio Steam Boat Company
References
Further reading
- "Henry Miller Shreve", A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol. II (1988), p. 741
- Allen, Luther Prentice (1901),Genealogy and history of the Shreve family from 1641, Greenfield, Illinois: Privately printed, 672 pages; reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, Massachusetts, 1999,
- Captain Henry Miller Schreve. A Contribution by Judge Samuel Treat of St. Louis, Mo. (From the Democratic Review, February 1848)
- (Mercer's account of his voyage aboard the Washington in 1816.)
- Ellis, Franklin (1882), History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Philadelphia: L. H. Everts and Company
- Maass, Alfred R., "The right of unrestricted navigation on the Mississippi, 1812–1818", The American Neptune, 60: 49-59
- Puneky, Claire (1970), Louisiana Leaders
- Rand, Clayton (1953), Stars in their Eyes