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Individual:
remarried 09/08/1842,Sioux mission Chaska, MN
was clerk for the American Fur Company, and private secretary to Henry Sibley
prior to 1851. Was Dakota County's first treasurer from 1853-55, & president
of the Mendota Board of Trustees from 1855-56.
Came to Minnesota 1830,to Mendota 1840, about 1871 went to Ft. Totten, ND as a
trader. Hypolite DuPuis
Hypolite DuPuis was born in 1807 at LaPrairie de la Madeleine (near Montreal), Lower
Canada, to Michael DuPuis and Marie Louise Denault. Not much is known of his early
life, but presumably he engaged in the fur trade, as there were a couple other men named
DuPuis that worked for the American Fur Company.
About 1830, Hypolite DuPuis began to work for Joseph Renville at Lac Qui Parle. He
moved to Mendota in 1840, to a small cabin on the Sibley property. DuPuis may have then
begun to clerk for Henry Hastings Sibley.
Hypolite had married Angelique Renville, the daughter of his employer on the upper Saint
Peter's river. Joseph Renville was the first known person of European descent born (1779)
in present-day Minnesota, but his mother had been a member of Little Crow's Santee
Dakota village of Kaposia. Hypolite and Angelique had eight children: Marguerite (1840),
Marie Louise (1842), Marie Agnes (1844), William Henri (1847), George Henri (1849),
Alfred K. (1851), Henry Hastings (1854), and Hypolite Paschal "Paul" (1859). They also
raised a Metis orphan, Louise Allard (1846).
DuPuis built the brick house, in which the Sibley Historic Site offices are today, in 1854
for $3500. It is a two-story house made of Milwaukee brick. From this house he ran for a
time a general store and grocery on the main floor. He also served as a Justice of the
Peace and Dakota County's first treasurer. He managed Sibley’s main store at Saint Peter's
presumably after Frederic B. Sibley, and helped Sibley liquidate his fur trade interests in
1853.
Hypolite DuPuis again entered the trade for a brief time at Fort Totten (near Bismark),
North Dakota, in the 1870's. But by 1879, he was again living in Minnesota. It is not
known when or where he died. His wife Angelique died a widow on January 2, 1890.
Hypolite apparently was a talented individual, and he spoke several languages fluently,
including English, French and Patois.
Excerpts from "The Sibley Historic Site" Published 1995 by Sibley House Association / MNDAR
Friends of the Sibley Historical Site ©2000
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- Chris Jacobsen gedcom
- Article on ancestry of Hipolyte Dupuis, B.K.,1991, in possession of Todd Dunn
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