a noted coureur du bois (q.v.), who in 1795 came to the site of  Milwaukee to trade with the Indians. He possessed skill as a blacksmith and this skill made him useful to and popular with the Indians with whom he lived almost continually until his death in 1820 or 1821.

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[Source: Wisconsin: comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form, ed. by Ex-Gov. Geo. W. Peck (Madison, Wis., Western Historical Association, 1906).]