Henry Miller Shreve (October 21 1785 – March 6 1851) was the American inventor and steamboat captain who opened the Mississippi Ohio and Red rivers to steamboat navigation. Shreveport Louisiana is named in his honor.Shreve was also instrumental in breaking the Fulton-Livingston monopoly on steamboat traffic on the lower Mississippi.
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1785-10-21
birth place
New Jersey, Mount Pleasant (Burlington County New Jersey)
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