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Jean Pierre Roman Bureau, also known as John Peter Roman Bureau, Roman Bureau, J.P.R. Bureau, or simply P. Bureau, was one of the founders of Gallipolis, Ohio, and a member of the Ohio General Assembly. He was also the father-in-law of both ten-term congressman Samuel Finley Vinton, and of Francis Julius LeMoyne, a physician who built the first crematory in the United States. ==Life== Jean Pierre Roman Bureau was born in March, 1770 at Beton-Bazoches in the French province of Île-de-France.〔H.H. Hardesty & Co., ''History of Gallia County'' (1882).〕 As a young man, he pursued the trade of a silk merchant at Rheims. He was in Paris at the beginning of the French Revolution. He participated in the Storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789, helping to demolish the infamous prison.〔Charles Almanzo Babcock, ''Venango County, Pennsylvania: Her Pioneers and People''.〕 Soon afterward, Bureau joined a group of settlers escaping the tumult of the Revolution, hoping to settle in the Northwest Territory of the newly independent United States.〔 On their arrival in October, 1791, they found that their deeds were worthless, as the Scioto Company had never paid for the land they had meant to settle. Instead of being taken to their intended destination, near the present site of Wheelersburg and Franklin Furnace, Ohio, approximately one hundred and seventy colonists were deposited at what became known as Gallipolis. There, a series of crude huts had been laid out for them on land owned by the Ohio Company, which had begun the settlement of Ohio with the establishment of Marietta in 1788.〔"Gallipolis," in ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', Eleventh Edition (1911).〕 Unable to find work at Gallipolis, Roman Bureau traveled upriver to Marietta. There he befriended Edward W. Tupper, the son of General Benjamin Tupper, with whom Bureau lived for some months. The following year, Bureau returned to Gallipolis, and served as commissary of the troops that had been raised to fight in the Northwest Indian War.〔 In the years that followed, Bureau and J. Matthieu Berthelot were appointed agents to negotiate with the Ohio Company for the purchase of the land on which they were then living.〔"The French Settlement and Settlers of Gallipolis", in the ''Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly'', vol. 3 (1891).〕 In 1795, the Ohio Company agreed to sell the land to the colonists, and a further 25,200 acres was granted them by the United States in 1795 and 1798.〔 Bureau and Berthelot were two of the commissioners appointed on December 16, 1795 to survey and lay out the various lots, allocating them to each claimant.〔 Bureau subsequently held a series of positions of trust at Gallipolis, including postmaster, justice of the peace, and clerk of the supreme and common pleas courts of Gallia County, which had been established in 1803. He was one of the county's first representatives to the Ohio General Assembly, and served in both the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate. He also surveyed land in both Ohio and Virginia.〔 Jean Pierre Roman Bureau died in 1851, at the age of eighty-one, and is buried in the Pine Street Cemetery at Gallipolis.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jean Pierre Roman Bureau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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