Edme-Jean Leclaire
Edme-Jean Leclaire (14 May 1801 – 13 July 1872)
Leclaire was born the son of a poor village shoemaker, in
The short-lived cooperative village of Leclaire in Madison County, Illinois, was founded by N. O. Nelson as a company town for the N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company. The village was named in honor of Edme-Jean Leclaire. The village, which existed from 1890 to 1934, was operated based on some of Leclaire's principles.[3][4]
References
- ^ Eugène-Oscar Lami & Alfred Tharel,Dictionnaire encyclopédique et biographique de l'industrie et des arts industriels. Paris: Librairie des dictionnaires, 1886, Vol. 6, p. 88 [1]
- ^ Leclaire, Buildings Painter. Biography of a Good Man (Charles Robert, author. Translated from French by Bob Blain. Paris: Bookstore Fischbacher Corporation. September 1878) [2][permanent dead link]
- ^ Reinhardt, Cindy. (2009). The cooperative village of Leclaire, 1890-1934 (Illinois Heritage, 12(4), 11–13)
- ^ The History of Leclaire (Explore Historic Leclaire)
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