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DABRIL, GEORGE - Born in 1836 in Canada. Living in home of Flavien LaBarze in 1850.[MN50]
DABRIL, ELIZA - Born in 1838 in Canada. Living in home of Flavien LaBarze in 1850. [MN50]
DALTON, MARY ANN - Mary Ann married in 1845 to Scott Campbell Jr. of St. Paul. [LR459]
DANCER, THE - See WABSHEEDAH.
DANIELS, GEORGE - Born in 1822 in Vermont. He was a house builder in 1850. He is no doubt a brother of Joseph who lived in the same residence. [MN50]
DANIELS, JOSEPH - Born in 1820 in Vermont. He was a carpenter in 1850. He is no doubt a brother of George who lived in the same residence. [MN50]
DAUPHINE, MADELEINE - She was married by Fr. Ravoux in 1851 to Flavien LeMay of St. Paul. [LR1865]
DAVIS, C. - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 3 males and 1 female. [MN49]
DAVIS, JAMES - Born in 1820 in Maryland. A sportsman living in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DAY, DAVID - Dr. Day was born at Burke's Garden, VA, in 1825. In 1846, he removed to the lead-mining region of Wisconsin where he followed mining for three years while studing medicine at night, and attending the University of Pennsylvania Medical School during the winters, where he graduated in 1849. He came to St. Paul in the spring of that year and set up a medical practice. In 1854, he entered the drug business and withdrew from the medical profession.
In 1849, he was appointed Registrar of Deeds, and was elected for an additional two year term. He was a member of the legislature in 1852, and Speaker in 1853 from Benton County, where he was temporarily residing. He retired from the drug business in 1866, and was appointed State Prison Inspector in 1871. In 1874, was named one of the Commissioners of State Fisheries, and the next year he was named Postmaster of St. Paul. [WM242, MN50]
DAY, JAMES - Born in 1819 in Virginia. He was a mason in St. Paul in 1850. He and his wife Ellen (1829 KY) had at least two children: Williamm B. (1848 WI), and George W. (1849 WI). [MN50]
DAYTON, LYMAN - Born in 1810 in Connecticut. A merchant in St. Paul in 1850. His real estate holdings were valued at $10,000 in 1850. He and his wife Maria (1811 RI) had at least one child: Lyman C. (1831 RI) who was also a merchant in 1850. [MN50]
DEANE, JEREMIAH - Born in 1824 in Kentucky. He was a laborer in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DEANE, JOSEPH - Born in 1825 in Ireland. He was a carpenter in St. Paul in 1850. He was married to Nancy H. (1825 NY). [MN50]
DeBOW, JANE - The story of the Gibbs Farm begins in 1833 near Batavia, New York, when 5-year-old Jane DeBow was kidnapped by missionaries traveling west to work among the Mdewakanton Dakota in the area around Fort Snelling. Jane grew up in Minnesota and became very familiar with the Dakota culture. Her fascinating story is told in the children's book Jane Gibbs: Little Bird That Was Caught, to be published by the Ramsey County Historical Society in 1998. Jane DeBow met and married Heman Gibbs in Illinois, and in 1849, the couple moved to what is now Falcon Heights, MN. [See the Gibbs Farm Museum website]
DECAMP, J. WARREN - Born in 1826 in Ohio. He was a blacksmith in St. Paul in 1850. He was probably a brother of Edwin with whom he shared a residence in 1850. [MN50]
DECAMP, EDWIN - Born in 1828 in Ohio. He was a laborer in St. Paul in 1850. He was probably a brother of J. Warren with whom he shared a residence in 1850. [MN50]
DEGARMAN, R. H. - Born in 1825 in Pennsylvania. He was a merchant in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DELONAIS, XAVIER - He came to St. Paul from the Red River in 1843, lived in the city for a few years, then removed to Little Canada, and then to Rice Lake, MN. He died about 1874. [WM267]
DeLORD, ADELE - Adele married Frederick Olivier in 1863 at Little Canada. [LR2311]
DENOYER, LOUIS - Born at St. Louis, MO, he lived there until moving to St. Paul in the mid-1840's. He married a sister of Louis Robert, and lived on a claim on Phelan's Creek. About 1850, he removed to what is now Belle Plaine, then called "Robert's Creek", where he remained. One of his daughters married James W. Simpson. [WM159]
DENOY [DENAY, DENIS], LOUIS - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 7 males and 3 females. [MN49]
DENOYER, NARCISSE - He purchased the Halfway House property from Donald MacDonald, and that section of the city, Desnoyer Park, is named for him. He is noted as living in St. Paul in 1850. [WM63,267]
DENOYER [DANOZIER, DESNOYER], STEPHEN - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 3 males and 1 female. [MN49]
DENT, SAMUEL H. - Born in 1823 in Kentucky. An attorney who came to St. Paul in 1849. He was a charter member of the St. Paul Masonic Lodge. He was serving as a Justice of the Peace in 1850. [WM235, 246, MN50]
DENTON, FRANCOIS - Born in 1808 in Switzerland. A farmer at Pig's Eye or Red Rock in 1850. His real estate holdings were valued at $1,000 in 1850. He and his wife Persis (1808 Canada) had at least four children: Albert (1838 MN), Francis (1840 MN), Lucius (1842 MN), and Daniel (1847 MN). [MN50]
DEROCHER [DEROSHER], MRS. KATHARINE - She died at Saint Paul, on Wednesday, 26 June 1850 aged 56 years. [MPv2#10]
DEROCHER, WILLIAM - Born in 1819 in Canada. A St. Paul hotelkeeper who came in 1849, and managed the DeRocher House. He and his wife Rosalie Bain (1832 IA) had at least one child: Louis E. (1850 MN). Also living in his house in 1850 were Marie (1795 Canada) and John B. (1835 Canada), beleived to be his mother and brother. [WM246, MN50]
DEROCHER HOUSE - An early St. Paul Hotel, built about 1849. [WM246]
DESAIR [DESIRE], PETER - Born in 1810 in Canada. A laborer in St. Paul in 1850. He and his wife Melinda (1826 IL) had at least five children: Marianne (1839 MN), Josephine (1842 MN), Elizabeth (1843 MN), James (1847 MN), and Couzac (1849 MN). [MN50]
DESCOTEAUX dit BATON, MARGUERITE - Mother of Alexander Cavalier. [Jan Hintz woundedwing@email.msn.com]
DESIRE, FRANÇOIS - Also known as Fronchet. He was a native of France, and boasted of having been a soldier with
Napoleon. He was a soldier at Fort Snelling, and in 1836, was employed by Joseph N. Nicollet as an attendant on his expedition toward the Upper Mississippi.
Having spent nearly all his life in the military, Desire did not adjust well to civilian life upon his discharge. He took a claim on the east side of the Mississippi in 1837, and led a lonely, intemperate life, and in 1840, he was expelled from the Reserve with other settlers. In 1842, he came to St. Paul and secured employment from Richard Mortimer, John Irvine, and others doing light labor, then interspersing it with freightful sprees, some lasting two weeks. He came near freezing to death several times while lying unconscious in various places. He was, however, cared for by his many acquaintances, as he was a very kind-hearted, good-humored, and vivacious companion.
Desire lived at St. Paul about 2 years, then went to Elk River, MN, where his was later drowned during one of his sprees. [WM63]
DESMARAIS, JOSEPH - Of French and Chippewa parentage, he was born in the Red River settlement, and came to Fort Snelling as guide and interpreter for the party of refugees with which Joseph Rondo arrived. He settled in St. Paul in 1843, purchasing a piece of ground on which the Merchant's Hotel later stood. He was employed as an interpreter by William Hartshorn, Henry Jackson, and others. He raised a large family in St. Paul, and after the death of his wife, Marie Amenin, in 1847, he removed to the Indian Country where he lived out the remainder of his life. [WM137-8]
DESMARAIS [DEMARIS], LEVIENE - Born in 1824 in Minnesota. A laborer in St. Paul in 1850. He was married to Madeline (1828 MN). [MN50]
DESMARAIS [DEMARRAS], MARGARET - Born in 1836 in Minnesota. She was living in the household of Lewis & Josephine Bartlett in 1850. [MN50]
DESMARAIS [DEMARRAS, DEMONAS], MARIE - Born in 1841in Minnesota. She was living in the household of Charles & Anna Bazille in 1850. [MN50]
DESMARAIS, SEVERE - A resident of St. Paul in 1850. [WM267]
DESMARAIS, XAVIER - Born in 1822 in Minnesota. A laborer in St. Paul in 1850. He and his wife Josette Cloutier (1829 MN) had at least nine children: Xavier (1846 MN), Rosalie (1849 MN), Louis (1852 MN), Emily (1852), François Xavier (1860-1919), Solomon (1863-1939), Andrew (1866), Gustave (1868-1899), Alexander (1871), William (1875), and Josette (1878). [WM267, MN50,
Natalie Carlson]
DETONNER, MICHAEL - Born in 1837 in Wisconsin. A St. Paul resident in 1850. [MN50]
DEVILIN, JOHN - Born in 1825 in Ireland. A butcher in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DeWEBBER, D. - A St. Paul plasterer in 1849. [WM246]
DEWEBER, ISAIAH B. - Born in 1810 in New York. A mechanic in St. Paul in 1850. He was married to Nancy (1816 MO). His real estate holdings were valued at $12,000 in 1850. [MN50]
DEWEY, JOHN J. - The first regular practicing physician to settle in St. Paul was Dr. John J. Dewey who arrived in 1847. He was a native of New York, and brother of ex-Governor Dewey of Wisconsin. He was a recent graduate of the Albany Medical College, and was heartily welcomed by his new neighbors who, prior to that time, had no other source of medical or surgical intervention other than Fort Snelling. Dr. Dewey was a member of the first Territorial Legislature, and in 1848, he established the first drugstore in St. Paul in partnership with Charles Cavalier. His real estate holdings were valued at $300 in 1850. [WM67, MN50]
DICKENS, REV. L. - A St. Paul resident in 1850. [WM267]
DIVINE, DYER - Born in 1812 in New York. He died at St. Paul, M.T., on 12 Dec 1850. He formerly lived at New Diggings, Wisconsin. We cannot refrain from noticing here, the kindness and liberality to the deceased, of our townsman, Charles Cave, who has cheerfully borne the burdon of expense of the sickness and burial of the deceased, through the voluntary impulses of his benevolent soul. [MPv2#35]
DONAIS, ELEANOR - Born in 1827 in Canada, she was the daughter of Jean Baptiste Donais and Archange Arseneau. She married Jean Baptiste Baudreau on 6 Jun 1843 at Sorel, PQ, and moved with him to St. Paul. [LR847]
DONELLY, ELIZABETH - Born in 1790 in Vermont. A St. Paul resident in 1850. [MN50]
DONET, MICHEL - Born in 1792 in Canada. A stonemason in St. Paul in 1850. His real estate holdings were valued at $500 in 1850. He and his wife Elizabeth (1810 MN) had at least 7 children: William a teamster in 1850 (1833 MN), Isabelle (1832 MN), David (1837 MN), Xavier (1841 MN), Margaret (1836 MN), Mary Ann (1838 MN), and Marie (1839 MN). [MN50]
DOTY, HIRAM - Born in 1811 in New York. A laborer in St. Paul in 1850. He and his wife Ellen M. (1810 NY) had at least four children: John Wesley a laborer in 1850 (1834 PA), Harriet Ann (1840 PA), George H. (1844 PA), and Dolly Maria (1847 IL) [MN50]
DOUCHEME, C. Alexander - Born in 1819 in Canada. A laborer in St. Paul in 1850. He had at least 3 children: Alexander (1842 Canada), Rosalie (1848 Canada), & John 1849 Canada). [MN50]
DOUGARD, A. F. - Born in 1820 in Louisiana. He was a barber in St. Paul in 1850. He was married to Melinda H. (1825 VA). [MN50]
DOUGLAS, GEORGE - Born in 1817 in New York. He was a St. Paul merchant in 1849 &1850, in partnership with J. N. Slosson. His real estate holdings were valued at $450 in 1850. He was married at Stillwater to Frances Jacobs (1827 VA) of Stillwater, on Thursday 4 July 1850. [WM246, 267, MPv2#11, MN50]
DOW, JOSEPH B. - Born in 1828 in New Hampshire. A printer in St. Paul in 1850. His real estate holdings were valued at $75 in 1850. [MN50]
DOWNING [DOWING], HIRAM - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 4 males and 1 female. [MN49]
DRED SCOTT DECISION - An 1857 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and that Congress had no power to prohibit slavery. The case was brought on behalf of Dred Scott, a slave who had once lived at Fort Snelling, and partially revolved around whether a slave owned by a person from a slave state could legally claim freedom if taken by his or her owner to a free state, for example, while the owner was serving in the military. The decision of the court was overruled by the 13th and 14th amendments to the constitution.
DRESSER, HORACE - Born in 1814 in New York. He was a farmer at Pig's Eye or Red Rock in 1850. [MN50]
DREW, CARTER H. - Born in 1820 in New York. A merchant in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DUBOIS, FRANCOIS - Born in 1815 in Canada. He was a laborer in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DUDLEY, TAYLOR - A St. Paul resident in 1850. [WM267]
DUGAS, WILLIAM - Dugas was a Canadian millwright who came to St. Paul in 1844. He purchased 160 acres of land on
Phelan's Creek and Falls from Edward Phelan in 1844, and he immediately
employed Charles Bazille, and the two men built a two-story, 25x50 foot grist mill on the site. Unfortunately, due to lack of demand for lumber, the mill was a failure almost from the start, and some 18 months after it was built, Dugas sold the property and mill to Alex McLeod. He married in 1845 in St. Paul, to Suzanne Reche. Dugas then settled in Little Canada, where he was elected to the Territorial Legislature in 1849. He moved back to St. Paul in 1849, then permanently moved up to the Crow River Valley, where he lived out his life. [WM144-5, LR908]
DUMAS, MAXIME - Born in 1822 in Canada. He was a carpenter in St. Paul in 1850. [MN50]
DUNFORD [SANFORD], EDWARD - Born in 1826 in Georgia. He was a hotelkeeper in St. Paul in 1850. He married Emma (1826 England). [MN50]
DUNNING, MICHAEL - A St. Paul resident in 1850. [WM267]
DUNWELL, D.W.C. - A St. Paul resident in 1850. [WM267]
DUPRE, OLIVIER - A St. Paul resident in 1850. [WM267]
DUPUE, OSTIN/AUSTIN - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 8 males and 4 females. [MN49]
DUPUE, JOHN - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 4 males and 2 females. [MN49]
DUPUE, LEVI - A resident in St. Paul in 1849. Living in his household are listed 3 males and 2 females. [MN49]
DUPUIS, BAPTISTE - Born in 1820 in Canada. His family were residents in St. Paul in 1850. He and his wife Mary (1826 MN) had at least two children: Pascal (1846 MN), and Louis (1848 MN). [MN50]
DWINNELLS, WILLIAM M. - Born in 1820 in Vermont. He was a brickmaker in St. Paul in 1850. He was married to Eliza Jane (1831 ME). [MN50]
DYON, BENJAMIN A. - See YOUNG, BENJAMIN A. D..
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