Arndt, a trader, arrived in town just before an epidemic of the Black Death plague and became one of the city's wealthiest men by purchasing the property of families who fled the epidemic.

* 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

On leaving the East India Company in 1817, Jardine became an independent trader and entered into partnership with Thomas Weeding and Framjee Cowasjee.

The fur trader John Kinzie arrived in Chicago in 1804, and rapidly became the civilian leader of the small settlement that grew around the fort.

He was hired as a physician at Fort William, Ontario ( now Thunder Bay ), a fur-gathering post of the North West Company on Lake Superior ; there he became a trader and mastered several Indian languages.

According to his own declarations, he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Henry Hope Stanley, by accident: he saw Stanley sitting on a chair outside his store and asked him if he had any job opening for a person such as himself.

He became a successful trader, dealing in valuable imports such as silks and velvets, both luxury fabrics, much of which he sold to the Royal and noble court from about 1388.

John Kinzie ( December 3, 1763 – January 6, 1828 ) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States.

" In the early 18th century, Kings of Dahomey ( known today as Benin ) became big players in the slave trade, waging a bitter war on their neighbours, resulting in the capture of 10, 000, including another important slave trader, the King of Whydah.

It was established in 1865 as one of the original nine counties of Montana, and named in 1882 after Pierre Chouteau, Jr., a fur trader who established a trading post that became Fort Benton, which was once an important port on the Missouri River.

Marks was named for Leopold Marks, a Jewish immigrant trader of the late 19th century whose market became one of the earliest centers of business in the area.

Colonel Peter Sarpy, a French Creole fur trader who also was based in St. Louis, established a trading post across the river from Bellevue in what became Iowa.

The first settler in the area that became Huron was a Quebec-born trapper, trader and interpreter named John Baptiste Flemmond, who established a trading post along the east bank of the Huron River in 1792.

Jean Ping, the son of a Chinese trader and a black Gabonese mother, became the Deputy Prime Minister as well as the Foreign minister of Gabon and is currently the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union in 2009.

* Jerry Potts ( 1840 – 1896 ), ( also known as Ky-yo-kosi-“ Bear Child ”), was a Canadian American plainsman, buffalo hunter, horse trader, interpreter, and scout of Kainai-Scottish descent, cosidered himself Piegan, became a minor Kainai chief

For example, after Duncan McDougall ( fur trader ) surrendered Fort Astoria he became a NWC partner with one one-hundredth of a share.

In 1793, United Empire Loyalists became the first permanent settlers of European heritage in Port Hope, which they called Smith's Creek after a former fur trader.

He stayed in the area as a trader, married into the Creek tribe, and became closely involved with the Creek.

Their daughter Polly became the mother of Osceola, from her marriage with an English trader, William Powell.

He became a fur trader with the Ho-Chunk and Chippewa Indians, attaining a position of prominence and influence.

Born on Tanga Islands, New Ireland Province to Chin Pak ( 陳柏 ), a trader from Taishan, China, Julius Chan was educated at Marist College Ashgrove in Australia and first became actively involved in politics in the 1960s.

Ngāti Rangitāne were the local Māori iwi ( tangata whenua ) living in the area known as Te Ahu-a-Turanga, when a trader, Jack Duff, became the earliest known European to explore the area in 1830.

With the aid of whaler and trader Dicky Barrett, who had good contacts with Māori and a grasp of their language, William Wakefield began negotiating to buy land from the Māori around Petone in the Wellington area as soon as he arrived in New Zealand, and by the end of 1839 had concluded several purchases extending as far north as Patea that quickly became mired in controversy over their legitimacy.

In April 2012, hedge fund insiders became aware that the market in credit default swaps was possibly being affected by the activities of Bruno Iksil, a trader for J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., referred to as " the London whale " in reference to the huge positions he was taking.

He also ordered the arrest of opium trader Lancelot Dent, the head of Dent and Company ( a rival company to Jardine Matheson ) since the Chinese were more familiar with Jardine as the trading head and were quite unfamiliar with Matheson.

These traders brought their goods in sacks slung across their backs and this sack may have evolved into Kokopelli's familiar hump ; some tribes consider Kokopelli to have been a trader.

Hercules L. Dousman, fur trader and merchant at Prairie Du Chien, contracted to supply Selkirk's people with some 300 head of cattle, and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers.

Thompson continued working for the Hudson's Bay Company until May 23, 1797 when, frustrated with the Hudson's Bay Company's policies, he left and walked 80 miles in the snow to enter the employ of the competition, the North West Company where he continued to work as a fur trader and surveyor.

He claimed that veteran stock trader Richard Wigton, of Kidder, Peabody & Co. was guilty of insider trading ; in February 1987 he had officers handcuff Wigton and march him through the company's trading floor, with Wigton in tears.

He was also a slave trader, with a business based on Adams Street in Memphis.

Virginian traders developed a small-scale trading system with the Cherokee before the end of the 17th century ; the earliest recorded Virginia trader to visit the Cherokee was a certain Dority, in 1690.

These trading companies engaged palagi traders who lived on the islands, some islands would have competing traders with dryer islands only have a single trader.

In 1875, the English trader Thomas Keams escorted Hopi leaders to meet President Chester A. Arthur in Washington D. C. Loololma, village chief of Oraibi at the time, was very impressed with Washington.

Stone also consulted with Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, convicted inside trader David Brown, and several government prosecutors, and Wall Street investment bankers.

Lazarus tells of his visit as an interplanetary cargo trader to a planet with a culture like that of the medieval Middle East ( reminiscent of Citizen of the Galaxy ), whereon he bought a pair of slaves, brother and sister, and immediately manumitted them.

Ouray Meyers, a Taos artist, is the son of Ralph Meyers who was an artist, writer, and trader who was good friends with members of the Taos Society of Artists, such as Joseph Henry Sharp and W. Herbert Dunton ; He was also a friend of Leon Gaspard, Nicolai Fechin, Dorothy Brett, and Georgia O ' Keeffe.

Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman ( 1933 ) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle.

The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission defines a speculator as " a trader who does not hedge, but who trades with the objective of achieving profits through the successful anticipation of price movements.

However, since the two characters were polar opposites — Tyler, being the day trader he was, carried himself with more of an aristocratic air while Conrad was more of a blue-collar worker type man — there were some differences in the manner in which Conrad went at his job.

She worked there with her future husband, František Hrabal ( b. 1889-d. 5 June 1966 ); a František Hrabal was listed as Bohumil's godfather when he was baptised on 4 February 1914, but František was also the first name of Bohumil's future step-grandfather, a soft-drinks trader.

Even though he and his wife Emily Shelby believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, Shelby decides to raise the needed funds by selling two of them — Uncle Tom, a middle-aged man with a wife and children, and Harry, the son of Emily Shelby ’ s maid Eliza — to a slave trader.

Eva's father Augustine St. Clare buys Tom from the slave trader and takes him with the family to their home in New Orleans.

She is a deeply religious woman who strives to be a kind and moral influence upon her slaves and is appalled when her husband sells his slaves with a slave trader.

When James discovers in horror that his father is a slave trader, he frees the slaves on the ship and overthrows the ship's captain ( who then is killed by Electra ), and then murders the quartermaster with a metal hook.

In 1814 Alexander Ross, a fur trader with the North West Company, seeking a viable route across the mountains, explored and crossed the northern Cascades between Fort Okanogan and Puget Sound.