Ramsay Crooks

Ramsay Crooks

Ramsay Crooks (2 January 1787 – 6 June 1859) immigrated to Canada from Scotland in 1803 and he worked in a trading post on the Great Lakes. He helped W. Price Hunt to organize and lead an overland trip to Astoria in the Oregon Country for John Jacob Astor in 1809 through 1813, as a partner in the Pacific Fur Company. He became general manager of the American Fur Company in 1817 and was president of the company from 1834–1859.

External links

• The American Fur Trade
• Ramsay Crooks
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online