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[/td][td][/td] [td]The on-site investigation at St. Mary was entrusted to Auguste Moxhet: Consul General of Belgium in New York and Victor DeHam Head office for Flanders at the Department of the Interior in Brussels. Victor DeHam was commissioned in 1848 by the Minister, accompanied by Auguste Moxhet, already in New York, to visit and study the colony of Saint Mary the Belgian Government wanted to buy the land. Victor DeHam embarked on the βHiberniaβ, en route to Boston where he arrived on September 8, 1848. On October 1, with no news from the investigators, Baron D'Hoppschmidt, in agreement with the landowners: (Eschbach, Renzinger, and William A. Stokes , at Sainte Mary) postponed the decision for the 1st of April 1849. On October 10, 1848, returning to New York, Moxhet and DeHam sent their reports. If Moxhet was clearly pessimistic and questioned soil fertility, DeHam presented the thing quite favorably. The Belgian Government, after consulting the Advisory Committee for the affairs of Flanders, abandoned the contract with the owners of St Maryβs. On 30th October 1857, in Belgium,[/td]
[td]The on-site investigation at St. Mary was entrusted to Auguste Moxhet: Consul General of Belgium in New York and Victor DeHam Head office for Flanders at the Department of the Interior in Brussels. Victor DeHam was commissioned in 1848 by the Minister, accompanied by Auguste Moxhet, already in New York, to visit and study the colony of Saint Mary the Belgian Government wanted to buy the land. Victor DeHam embarked on the βHiberniaβ, en route to Boston where he arrived on September 8, 1848. On October 1, with no news from the investigators, Baron D'Hoppschmidt, in agreement with the landowners: (Eschbach, Renzinger, and William A. Stokes , at Sainte Mary) postponed the decision for the 1st of April 1849. On October 10, 1848, returning to New York, Moxhet and DeHam sent their reports. If Moxhet was clearly pessimistic and questioned soil fertility, DeHam presented the thing quite favorably. The Belgian Government, after consulting the Advisory Committee for the affairs of Flanders, abandoned the contract with the owners of St Maryβs. On 30th October 1857, in Belgium,[/td] [td]By Royal decree, Moxhet was elevated to the Officer Class, of the Order of Leopold I. Before 26th July 1861, he was appointed a member of The Higher Council of Industry and Commerce. On 29th December 1864, Moxhet was officially appointed a βDirector at the Ministry of Foreign Affairsβ, to replace Mr. Bivort, the outgoing member. On 23rd May 1867, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Widows and Orphans Fund. Also in 1867, he was a Belgian member of the 1867 Paris Exhibition : Belgian Commission, while he concurrently served in his post of director of Foreign Trade and Consulates. On 3rd December 1872, he retired permanently from Belgian political life ; also on the same day, he was elevated to the Commander Class, of the Order of Leopold I, to recognise his previous political and consular services rendered, in the exercise of his government functions, and on the grounds of his recent ill health. He died on 14th February 1873, in Ensival, Liege, Belgium. He had 2 sons, born in New York in 1849 and in 1851. He later had a daughter in around 1860, after the Belgian family had returned to Belgium.[/td]
[td]By Royal decree, Moxhet was elevated to the Officer Class, of the Order of Leopold I. Before 26th July 1861, he was appointed a member of The Higher Council of Industry and Commerce. On 29th December 1864, Moxhet was officially appointed a βDirector at the Ministry of Foreign Affairsβ, to replace Mr. Bivort, the outgoing member. On 23rd May 1867, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Widows and Orphans Fund. Also in 1867, he was a Belgian member of the 1867 Paris Exhibition : Belgian Commission, while he concurrently served in his post of director of Foreign Trade and Consulates. On 3rd December 1872, he retired permanently from Belgian political life ; also on the same day, he was elevated to the Commander Class, of the Order of Leopold I, to recognise his previous political and consular services rendered, in the exercise of his government functions, and on the grounds of his recent ill health. He died on 14th February 1873, in Ensival, Liege, Belgium. He had 2 sons, born in New York in 1849 and in 1851. He later had a daughter in around 1860, after the Belgian family had returned to Belgium. His eldest sonβs wife Emma was the niece of French navy admiral Jean Bernard Jaureguiberry, with Emmaβs father being Pierre Jaureguiberry, the younger brother of the significant French admiral[/td] [td][/td]
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