Jean Pierre Roman Bureau

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.

Jean Pierre Roman Bureau was born in March, 1770 at Beton-Bazoches in the French province of Île-de-France. 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.

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.

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