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Memoir of Jean Baptiste Faribault (Classic Reprint)
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Mackinac ...)
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Mackinac and Drummond's Island were at that time the de pots of the trade of the Northwest Fur Company. Mr. Fari bault proceeded in the spring with his men, and the furs and peltries collected during the winter, to the first named post, where he delivered his valuable returns to the duly authorized agent of the Company, Mr. Gillespie.
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Governor's Message To The Senate And House Of Representatives Of The State Of Minnesota, 1859
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Henry Hastings Sibley was the first Governor of the U. S. state of Minnesota and a U. S. Representative of the Minnesota Territory and the Wisconsin Territory.
Background
Henry Hastings Sibley was born on February 20, 1811 in Detroit, Michigan Territory. He was the descendant of John Sibley who emigrated from England to Plymouth about 1629 and later settled in Salem, Massachussets, and the son of Solomon and Sarah Whipple (Sproat) Sibley.
His mother was the grand-daughter of Abraham Whipple, and his father was territorial delegate to Congress and judge of the territorial supreme court.
Education
The boy's education at the local academy was supplemented by two years of tutoring in the classics and two years of law study.
Career
The boy's education at the local academy was supplemented by two years of tutoring in the classics and two years of law study.
In June 1828 he became a clerk in the sutler's store at Fort Brady at Sault Ste. Marie. In the spring of 1829 he entered the employ of the American Fur Company at Mackinac as clerk, a position he held for five years. During the last two winters of this service he was stationed at Cleveland, Ohio, charged with the important duty of purchasing the company's supplies of flour, corn, pork, tobacco, and other produce.
In the summer of 1834 Hercules L. Dousman and Joseph Rolette, veteran fur traders in the Northwest, invited him to join them as a partner in operating one of the outfits of the American Fur Company and to assume exclusive management of the trade with the Sioux from Lake Pepin to the Canadian boundary and west to the Rocky Mountain divide.
On October 28, after an arduous journey by canoe and horse, he arrived at Mendota, beneath the walls of Fort Snelling. In 1835 he built himself "a substantial and commodious stone dwelling the first private residence, in all of Minnesota, and Dakota"; and here many explorers, travelers, missionaries, Indians, and other visitors to the region were entertained.
In 1848 he was elected delegate to Congress by the inhabitants of that part of the Territory of Wisconsin not included in Wisconsin state. He promoted the organization of Minnesota Territory in 1849 and was promptly elected as delegate to Congress. When Minnesota became a state in May 1858 he took office as the first governor, having been elected as a Democrat.
He was not a candidate for reëlection in 1859. As territorial delegate he had urged on Congress a change in Indian policy but in vain, and in the Sioux uprising in Minnesota of 1862 he led the military forces of the state against the Indians. With an ill equipped command and practically no cavalry he marched from St. Paul to the relief of the frontier posts, reënforced the soldiers and settlers after the battle of Birch Coulee, and fought the battle of Wood Lake on September 23.
His influence among the Indians was no doubt partly responsible for the return of the white captives after this battle.
In 1863 and 1864 he commanded punitive expeditions against the Sioux in the Dakota region, and in 1865-66 he was one of the commissioners to negotiate peace treaties with the Sioux. He removed to St. Paul, Minnesota, and thereafter was concerned with more prosaic public service and private business.
He was president of a gas company, an insurance company, and a bank in St. Paul; he was for one term a representative in the state legislature, 1871, and was for many years president of the board of regents of the University of Minnesota and of the Minnesota Historical Society, for which he wrote several addresses and sketches.
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Personality
His influence among the Sioux was extensive, not alone because of his position as head of the fur trade, but because of his firm and commanding personality, his remarkable physique, and his skill as a huntsman.
Connections
On May 2, 1843, he was married to Sarah Jane Steele, sister of Franklin Steele.