Person:Joseph Vann (8)

Name	Joseph H Vann
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	11 Feb 1798	Spring Place, Murray, Georgia, United States
Marriage		to Jennie Springston
Marriage		to Mary Blackburn (add)
Death^[1]	23 Oct 1844	near New Albany, Floyd, Indiana, United Stateskilled when the boilers blew up on board his steamboat "Lucy Walker" while en route from Louisville, KY to New Orleans
Nationality^[1]		Cherokee

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Joseph Vann, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

Joseph H. Vann (11 February 1798 – 23 October 1844) was a Cherokee leader of mixed-race ancestry, a businessman and planter in Georgia, Tennessee and Indian Territory. He owned plantations, many slaves, taverns, and steamboats. In 1837, he moved with several hundred Cherokee to Indian Territory, as he realized they had no choice under the government's Indian Removal policy. He built up his businesses along the major waterways, operating his steamboats on the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi, and Arkansas rivers. ...