Campbell, Archibald Sr.
(Abt 1730-)
Hi-Hu-Ti-Na
Campbell, Archibald John
(1755-1808)
Ninse
(-1801)
Campbell, Antoine Scott
(1790-1851)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Menagre, Margaret

Campbell, Antoine Scott 1

  • Born: 1790, Prairie Du Chien, WI
  • Marriage (1): Menagre, Margaret on 12 Aug 1825
  • Died: 1 Mar 1851, St Paul, Minnesota Territory at age 61 2

bullet   Another name for Antoine was Scott.

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bullet  General Notes:

Scott Campbell: (1790's-1851)
He was the son of Archibald John Campbell & a Dakota woman and married Margaret Menager. Their children were: Henriette S. (b.1824; m.Benjamin Aitken Dyomme), Scott II (b.abt.1828-1870), Hypolite S.(b.abt.1828), Joseph S.(b.1827/36-1869; m.Mary Ann), John S. (1834-1865; m.Marguerite Lize), Margaret (b.1838; m.Joseph Labathe in 1854), Baptiste S.(b.1838); Marie (b.abt.1839) & Mathias S.
As a boy, Scott was taken back east by Meriwether Lewis (of the Lewis & Clark expedition) on his return from his western journey. When Lewis died in 1809 under mysterious circumstances he returned to family in the Upper Mississippi. He was licensed to trade above Prairie du Chien for James Lockwood in the 1819-20 season. In 1834 he was Indian agent Taliaferro's Dakota interpreter at Fort Snelling, where he assisted Lt.Edmund A.Ogden in setting the Dakota language on paper. Missionary, Samuel W.Pond credits Scott for his part in the manuscript that Ogden passed on to Samuel & his brother Gideon Pond which was helpful in their work in developing a Dakota dictionary that was finished & published though the efforts of fellow missionary, Stephen R. Riggs. In 1837, Scott was living at the St.Peters settlement, near the mouth of the Minnesota River, going to Washington D.C. as the Dakota interpreter for a treaty. In 1843 he bought a claim from Denis Cherrier for $300. which he sold to William Hartshorn in 1848. Pond wrote of Scott, "Mr.Campbell was, in his general deportment, very mild, quiet and gentlemanly, always ready to smoke or chat with white men or Indians, carefully avoiding all harsh language and disagreeable topics; but he had a fiery temper which sometimes broke through the smooth external covering in such ebullitions of passion as we might expect from one in whom were mingled the Scotch and Dakota blood. He was skillful as an interpreter, and perhaps more skillful as a mis-interpreter...He told what he thought the speaker should have said rather that what he did say, and frequently a good understanding seemed to have been restored, simply because there had been no understanding at all."

From: http://users.usinternet.com/dfnels/campbell.htm or
http://www.tradegoods.org/campbell.htm
TRADE GOODS
The goods on this page are of the mid-North American fur trade era it's history & genealogy prior to the 1840's.

CAMPBELL, SCOTT - He was born Antoine Scott Campbell at Prairie du Chien in 1790, the son of Colin Campbell, a very well known Northern Irish trader who traveled throughout the west in the early 1800's. His mother was an unknown Native American woman. Scott Campbell acted as interpreter for Fort Snelling for 25 years, and was at various times in the employ of many of the prominant traders and businessmen of St. Paul during that period. After resigning from the Indian Agency at the Fort in 1843, he purchased a small claim from Denis Cherrier that ran from what is today Wabasha to St. Peter, and back two or three blocks. He erected a dwelling on the claim, but sold the property to William Hartshorn, and moved to a small claim on St. Anthony Road just beyond Narcisse Denoyer's property.

He was a farmer in 1850. Campbell was said to have been a man of some ability, but his intemperate habits caused him to lead a relatively unhappy life. He was a man of unusual physical beauty and power, with long, curly black hair, dark expressive eyes, and a finely proportioned figure. He married Margaret Menager, and had a number of children: Baptiste, John, Marguerite (1837 MN), Marier (1838 MN), Hypolite, Joseph, Mathias, Scott Jr., Henrietta, Nancy, and Alexander. When his sons were young boys, they were known as good-natured and well-disposed lads, but some of them afterwards turned out very badly. Campbell died in 1851 in St. Paul. [Minnesota Territorial Census 1850. Minnesota Genealogical Journal, Minnesota Historical Society, ©1972.and Williams, J. Fletcher. A History of the City of Saint Paul to 1875. St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society, ©1983.]

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bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: interpreter for Col. Snelling and Taliferro, Bet 1818 and 1843.


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Antoine married Margaret Menagre, daughter of Louis Fromme dit Menagre and Unknown, on 12 Aug 1825. (Margaret Menagre was born in 1799 3 and died on 9 Jun 1892 in Santee Reservation, Knox County, NE 4.)


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Sources


1 Renville, Tom, Tom Renville's posting on Rootsweb website (Tom Renville
1907 46th Ave NE, Apt 206
Columbia Heights, MN 55421
thomas_edworthy@yahoo.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=thomas281&id=I156413). .... Annette Atkins, Creating Minnesota, Page 26. .... Hemingson, Richard M. (Richard Hemingson
4245 Bryant Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55409
Phone: 612-827-5857
Hemingson@aol.com).

2 Rootsweb, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=familyinfo&id=I2943, email appleg8t@earthlink.net.

3 Annette Atkins, Creating Minnesota, Page 57.

4 Annette Atkins, Creating Minnesota, Page 33. .... Annette Atkins, Creating Minnesota, Page 57. .... Catholic Cemetery at Santee (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/knox/cemeteries/catholic.htm).


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