Count
Giacomo
Costantino
Beltrami
Born in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 76
in Filattrano, Italy
Profile last modified
| Created 24 May 2018
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Biography
Giacomo Costantino Beltrami (1779 in Bergamo – January 6, 1855 in Filottrano) was an Italian jurist, author, and explorer, best known for claiming to have discovered the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1823 while on a trip through much of the United States (later expeditions determined a different source, however). Beltrami County in Minnesota is named for him. He had an extensive network of notable figures for friends and acquaintances, such as members of the powerful Medici family.
Beltrami was the 16th of 17 children.
Spouse: Count Beltrami was married to the sister of Count Bastogi famous for the railway. Count Bastogi had in turn married into the Anglo-English Russian family of Henry Savage Yeames, British Consul-General.[1] Henry Yeames married Wilhelmina von Rahl daughter of Baron von Rahl of Hesse-Cassel banker to the Tsar.
Sources
- ↑ see Bremmer on Russia page 498 Vol 2
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