factor at Prairie du Chien, 1816-1822, where he was also appointed a judge in 1818; generally sympathetic to Indian rights, he married a Sauk woman and educated their several children; he was living at St. Louis as late as 1837.

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[Source: Lockwood, James H. "Early Times and Events in Wisconsin." at Turning Points in Wis. History (www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/); Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol. XIX]