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Israel Dodge was appointed the first High Sheriff in 1804 of Ste. Genevieve County by Gen. Wilkinson, President Jefferson's Military Governor, who took possession of Upper Louisiana under the Treaty of 1803. His active and adventurous life early terminated in his forty-sixth year.
Among his pleasant recollections was to have witnessed the hauling down of the white flag of France, surrendering all design of colonization in America, and the hoisting of the Star Spangled Banner March 30, 1804. This ceremonial was performed by Major Stoddard of our Army and the Baron de Carondelet amid the tears and lamentations of the French, who were sincerely attached to their old government, and the shouts and plaudits of the few Americans present.
His son, the Hon. Henry Dodge, was born in 1782, fitly beginning in the wilderness; a life, which above all others of the North west, was destined to be that of their bravest and wisest leader in their rapid growth to dominant power. His father had settled in Missouri, then a Spanish possession, at the village of Ste. Genevieve on the River Mississippi in the County of Ste. Genevieve, where he lived till his death in 1806.
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