Henry von Phul (August 14, 1784 – September 8, 1874) was an American pioneer merchant, businessman and public official whose career coincided with the growth of the city of St. Louis, Missouri, between 1811 and 1874.

[2] The marriage was happy, and the fruits of it were George, Catharine, William, Sarah, Henry, Anna Maria, Philip and Graff von Phul.

[1] In the interest of Hart, young von Phul made numerous trips to the South, having in charge keel-boats loaded with flour, lead, bagging and rope.

[1] On arriving, he found St. Louis a settlement of eleven or twelve hundred inhabitants, most of whom were French and engaged principally in dealing in lead and peltries.

[1] At that time, all the country west of St. Louis and on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River was still unsettled, and the American Indians who lived there often came into conflict with the white settlers.

[2] The elderly von Phul, then eighty-eight, insisted upon paying his sons' creditors, and although doing so exhausted his personal fortune, "even to his wife's dower", this final act of integrity earned him the respect and admiration of his peers.