MORRISON Robert

Family/Spouse: BRANCHAUD Sophie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

John George Morrison

Posted by Dick Campbell on Fri, 18 Jun 1999

>From the 1907 book by Alvin H. Wilcox, "A Pioneer History of Becker
County Minnesota" chapter XVIII, pages 267-269:

John George Morrison, son of Allan and nephew of William, was born at
Lake Winnebegoshish, Minnesota, April 29th, 1843, where his father
was managing a trading post for the American Fur Company.

He attended the Mission Schools at Crow Wing and Belle Prairie,
Minnesota, for a few years, but was compelled to quit school on
account of his father's ill health; he soon became the mainstay of
the family and so continued until his brother Allan became old enough
to take his place.

While yet a mere boy, he carried on some trading with the Indians
around Gull Lake and towards Leech Lake, and became quite popular
with them; during the Indian outbreak he was chosen by Governor
Ramsey and the Indians themselves to carry messages between the two
camps and in that capacity rendered valuable services.

After the Civil War, in 1865, the United States government, desiring
to ascertain the true conditions and feelings of the Indian tribes,
organized, at all Indian agencies, bodies of scouts, whose mission
was to inquire into and report the causes of troubles and
dissatisfaction among the Indians. These scouts were chosen from
among the intelligent and loyal mixed bloods, and were place under
the supervision of the military authorities.

Upon the recommendation of the officer then in command at Fort
Ripley, John George Morrison was placed in charge of the scouts at
the Crow Wing Agency, and so remained until the corps was disbanded.
July 3rd, 1863, he married
Margaret Elizabeth Fairbanks, daughter of Robert Fairbanks and
Catherine Beaulieu. Ten children were born to them; six in Crow Wing
and four near White Earth Agency. Two lived only a few years, the
others are, with the exception of his daughter Mrs. Julia A. Spears,
(the second), who lives at Red Lake, all members of the White Earth
Reservation, and possess valuable landed interests there. He removed
to the White Earth Reservation, from old Crow Wing, on the
Mississippi, in the fall of 1874, and some years afterwards entered
the government service and occupied several positions, being
successively captain of Indian police and judge of the court of
Indian offenses, and later government farmer, which position he held
until the winter of 1892-3. In the fall of 1893, he removed to Red
Lake, and has since successfully carried on hotel keeping and
trading.

GEO. A. MORISON

John married FAIRBANKS Margaret Elizabeth on 03 Jul 1863. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ten children were born to them; six in Crow Wing and four near White
Earth Agency. Two lived only a few years, the others are, with the
exception of his daughter Mrs. Julia A. Spears, (the second), who
lives at Red Lake, all members of the White Earth Reservation, and
possess valuable landed interests there

Notes:

Allan Morrison, Sr.

Posted by Dick Campbell on Fri, 18 Jun 1999

>From the 1907 book by Alvin H. Wilcox, "A Pioneer History of Becker
County
Minnesota" chapter XVIII, pages 266-267:

Allan Morrison, a younger brother of William Morrison, was born at
Teerebonne, near Montreal, Canada, June 3rd, 1803, and received a
common school education in his native village, which prepared him for
a clerkship in a country store.

Being a lad of uncommon physical development and activity, he did not
take kindly to indoor life, and his brother William having made his
first return visit to Canada in 1820, he was easily induced to
accompany him to what the French Canadians called "Les pays d'en
Haut" or The Upper Countries.

The delays incidental to the settlement of their father's estate
prevented them from starting with the returning boats and canoes, and
they were compelled to start much later; so late in fact, that winter
overtook them before the journey to the far north was half over.

After staying some days at one of the trading posts, to give time for
the ice to thicken, they started on afoot and it was not long before
they had to use snow shoes, traveling being made so much easier with
them after the snow got to be six or eight inches deep.

Their route from Montreal, was up the Ottawa River to a portage into
Lake Nipissing, and thence via Georgian Bay to Saulte Ste. Marie, via
Manitou Island, and thence on the ice of Lake Superior to old
Superior, Wisconsin, which they reached in February, 1821. There he
signed articles of engagement with the American Fur Company, for a
five years' apprenticeship and in due course of time was given a
small outpost to manage, and later on was placed in charge of the
trading post at Red Lake, Minnesota.

About 1825 he married Charlotte Louisa Chabrille, a mixed blood
Chippewa born at Old Fort William, on Lake Superior; by her he had
several children, the only ones now surviving being Mrs. Mary A.
Sloan of St. Cloud, Mrs. Caroline Grandelmyer and Miss Rachel
Morrison of Brainerd, and John George and Allan Morrison of White
Earth. All have allotments of land on the White Earth Indian
Reservation, where John, George and Allan built substantial homes on
their farms.

During the many years he was engaged in the fur trade, Allan Morrison
was successively in charge of nearly all the American Fur Company's
trading posts in Northern Minnesota, and finally he settled down at
Crow Wing, on the Mississippi, an important post, where he
represented the interests of the late Henry M. Rice, during the
period that gentleman engaged in the fur trade in the upper
Mississippi country.

He was a member of the Territorial Legislature of Minnesota, and
Morrison County was named for him; was also postmaster at Crow Wing,
Minnesota, for several years.

Leaving Crow Wing in the fall of 1874, he removed to White Earth,
Becker County, where he resided to the time of his death, November
21, 1876, and where he was buried in the Catholic cemetery.

GEO. A. MORISON

Allan Morrison was one of a family of seven boys and five girls. He
was born in Canada to which his father emigrated from Scotland.
William Morrison, Allan's elder brother, explored Northern Minnesota
territory "as early as 1800, and was probably one of the first white
men to discover Lake Itasca, the source of the Mississippi River,"
but it does not appear that he identified it as the source of that
River.

"Allan's first visit to this region was in 1820, when he came to Fon
du Lac, as a trader in what was then known as the 'Northern Outfit.'
For several years he was associated with his brother William in the
Fond du Lac department, during which time he was stationed at Sandy
Lake, Leech Lake, Red Lake, Mille Lacs, and Crow Wing."9

According to his account of the early traders in the area of Crow
Wing, Allan Morrison declares that in 1823, as an employee of the
American Fur Company, he was sent to oppose a trader who had come up
the Mississippi to its confluence with the Crow Wing River. He
writes: "on my arrival to where Fort Ripley now stands, I learned
where he was building his establishment. My instructions were that I
should build close by him, but being posative [sic] I could do better
a short distance above, I built my house and store on the island." 10

This statement has called forth much controversy. Many people who
know the region well, believe it would not have been feasible to
build the post on the island, even if conditions were as they are
today. At present, it is unundated with water in the spring of the
year. However, if the trading post was used only a great part of the
year, it could have been a protective spot for trading. Our evidence
is, Stanchfield who states. "Crow Island was occupied by 500
Indians."

According to his granddaughter, Rose Parker, formerly of Crow Wing
Historical Society, Allan Morrison married Louise Chaboulier in 1820.


The WPA Crow Wing County Research Collection says that the year 1943
is an important date in the history of the Crow Wing settlement, for
in this year Allan Morrison settled opposite the south mouth of the
Crow Wing River. He was the first white person to settle permanently
in Crow Wing.

"Allan Morrison was the postmaster, farmer, trader, hotel keeper, and
agent for a line of stage coaches. He had lived in the vicinity
sixteen years and spoke English, Cree, and Chippewa." 22

At the April (1850) meeting of that year, the commissioners appointed
Allan Morrison, Jonathan Stately (Statelar), and William Warren, as
judges of election for the county and Truman Warren, brother of
William Warren, temporary assessor. They ordered that the necessary
bridges and crossings be place between Sauk Rapids and Crow Wing. 47

9. Folson, W. H. C. Fifty Years in Northwest, Pioneer Press, 1888,
St. Paul, pp 480, 481.

10. Morrison, Allan. "Indian trade and Its Progress, from the
Discover of the St. Lawrence River by the French", in the History of
Central Minnesota-- A Survey of unpublished Sources by Mary E.
Wheelhouse in Minnesota History, 9:248, 1928.

11. Interview with Rose Parker at Crow Wing County Historical Society
Museum, Brainerd, Minnesota, August 19, 1934.

22. Harper's Magazine, New York, V. XIX p. 47.

47. Brainerd Dispatch, April 18 1918.

Died:
21 NOV 1876/1877

Notes:

The Fairbanks Family

Posted by Dick Campbell on Fri, 18
Jun 1999

Robert Fairbanks was born at Sandy Lake, Minn., on the 21st day of
September 1825. When he was quite young he was sent to Fredonia, New
York, to be educated, and at the age of twenty he was employed at the
headquarters of the American Fur company at La Pointe, Wisconsin, as
clerk. In 1846 he married Catherine Beaulieu the youngest sister of
C. H. and Paul Beaulieu. He remained at La Pointe until 1851, when he
removed to Crow Wing with his family where he remained in trade for a
number of years, where he had a comfortable home and family of seven
children, four sons and three daughters.

In 1868 he removed to White Earth with his family, where he had taken
charge of the store belonging to Joseph Wakefield, which he ran for a
year, when he opened up a store of his own which he ran until he
died.

Robert married BEAULIEU Catherine on 30 Jun 1846 in LaPointe, Wisc Territory, MI. Catherine (daughter of BEAULIEU Bazile Hudon Dit and Skies) Margaret Racine (O-ge-mau-gee-shi-go-quay) (Queen of the) was born in 1826 in WI; died in Jan 1902 in White Earth, Becker Co., MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Occupation: Managed (W/ Paul) Fur Trading Post @ Lac-Du-Flambeau, WI

3/16 Ojibwe

Basile H. Beauleu (son of Nicolas Basile Hudon Beauleu and Josette
Miville) came from Montreal, P. Q. Canada with his brother Paul to
Lac-du-Flambeau, Wisconsin about 1804. Voyageur with the North West
Fur Company, 1804-1805, Flambeau, Minnesota. Basile and his brother
Paul managed the Fur Trading Post at Lac-du-Flambeau, WI. In 1818
Basile is listed among the "Roster of Employees" of the American Fur
Company. Basile (Bazile) was listed by the North West Fur Company in
1805 in the Lac du Flambeau department with one year to serve on his
contract and a crdit of 16 livre on his account. He was hired by the
Michilimackinac Company on 9 July 1810 to winter at Lac du Flambeau
for 700 livre.(p. 33)19 The town of Beauleu, Mahnomen County,
Minnesota was named after the descendants of Basile and his Ojiway
wife. Basile H. Beauleu married in 1810 in Wisconsin an Indian Maiden
named O-Ge-mau-gee-shi-go-qua, which means Queen of the Skies, but
was called Marguerite Beauleu. (She was the daughter of the Indian
Chief, White Raven.) It is believed that Basile H. Beauleu died in
1838 and is buried in the Beauleu burial grounds at La Pointe,
Madeleine Island, Wisconsin.

Resided at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin Territory with the Northwest
Fur Co. in 1804. Emigrated from canada at that time.
His family came to America from France in 1764, being royalists in
the old country, and for meritourious services rendered to their
sovereign, "De Beaulieu" was added to their family name of "Hudon".

Bazil H. Beaulieu

Posted by Dick Campbell on Fri, 18 Jun 1999

The following is a quote from Alvin H. Wilcox's 1907 book "A Pioneer
History of Becker County Minnesota" Chapter XVIII, pages 260-261:

Among Mrs. West's papers I came across the following clipping from
the Detroit Record of January 27th, 1893:

Mr. Basil H. Beaulieu, an old and respected pioneer of Wisconsin and
Minnesota, has been commissioned by the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs a judge of the court of Indian offenses at this agency. Mr.
Beaulieu was tendered his commission and officially notified of his
appointment by Agent C. A. Ruffee on Monday. He is the proud
possessor of a document sear and yellow with age, it being one of the
three justice of peace commissions issued by the first territorial
governor of Wisconsin, Mr. Beaulieu being one of the three persons
appointed to execute the duties of that then honorable position, his
field being Brown County, in 1836.

As the name, Bazil H. Beaulieu, was identical with that of the Bazil
H. Beaulieu who came from Montreal in 1804, and believing that in
1836 he would be too young a man for the Bazil H. Beaulieu of 1804, I
wrote to Theodore H. Beaulieu of White Earth for information, and
received the following reply:

White Earth, Minn., Oct. 23, 1905.

HON. A. H. WILCOX
FRAZEE, MINN.,
My Dear Sir:
Replying to yours of the 16th inst., concerning the identity of Bazil
H. Beaulieu, who came from Montreal, Canada, and settled at Lac du
Flambeau, Wis., the then territory of Michigan, in 1804, etc., you
are respectfully informed that this person was my father's uncle and
a granduncle of mine. There were two brothers, Paul and Bazil Hudon
de Beaulieu. Paul was my father's father and my grandfather; Bazil
Hudon de Beaulieu was the father of the late Col. Clement H., Paul
H., Henry H. Beaulieu, and was also the father of Mrs. Catherine
Beaulieu Fairbanks (Mrs. Robert Fairbanks), Mrs. Margaret Beaulieu
Bisson (Mrs. Martin Bisson), Mrs. Gustave Borup, deceased, and Mrs.
Julia Beaulieu Oakes; the latter being the only surviving child of
the said Bazil Hudon de Beaulieu. She is at present at this agency
and is now 94 years of age, and still hale and hearty. My father, the
late Bazil H. Beaulieu, the second, was the only son of Paul Hudon de
Beaulieu, and is the person referred to in the clipping. My grand
uncle Bazil was stationed at Lac du Flambeau as an Indian trader, and
my grandfather Paul was at Vermillion Lake and also Red Cedar (now
Cass Lake), some time between 1830 or 1840 (I am not clear as to
date.) My grandfather removed to Navareno (now Green Bay, Wis.), and
settled there. Later on he purchased large tracts of land, as also
the old Stockbridge agency sawmill and grist-mill from the Government
on the south side of the Fox River and where is now built the
flourishing city of Kaukauna, Wis. Sometime about 1848 my father also
removed to Green Bay, and on the death of my grandfather he fell heir
to all of the property, he being the only child. Our family removed
from Kaukauna, Wis., about 26 years ago and settled at White Earth,
Minn. Both my grandfather and grandmother are buried at the old
French or mission cemetery at Green Bay, Wis. My mother and father
sleep in St. Benedict's mission cemetery, White Earth, Minn.

Appreciating the interest you manifest in the history of the sturdy
pioneers, who braved the wild and woolly days of your, and helped to
carve the crude paths of this grand commonwealth, I have the honor,
dear sir, to remain,

Very respectfully,
Theo H. Beaulieu

__________

The name "Beaulieu" was a nickname give to Pierre which would be Bazile's Grandfather. When in France - Pierre lived by a forest and the nickname had something to do with reference to that. I found some paperwork in French and had it translated by a man in Canada who was fluent in French.

The cemetery that Bazile is buried in - is in Madeline Island and it isn't the "Beaulieu Burial Ground" there are other catholics buried there. Bazile died 9/9/1938.

When Bazile, Paul and Roman came to the US - they went to Madeline Island. There are miles between Lac du Flambeau and Madeline Island. After Bazile and O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe were married - they went to Sault St Marie and Lac du Flambeau. I even had the chance to hold and open his "Money Box" - it is in good condition and I was trilled to hold it. I don't know where the name Racine name came from. When I went to Wisconsin - others out there didn't know where it came from either. She did have an Aunt who changed her name to "Marguerite"

The Bazile Beaulieu that was in Brown County, Wis - was Bazile's nephew. His dad is Bazile's brother Paul Orde Hudon Beaulieu.

The cemetery St Benedicts is also called Calvary - it is a Catholic cemetery in White Earth. Paul H Beaulieu - son of Bazile and O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe is buried there. There is a black fense are it and nephew and nieces are buried in that fenced area. Maria - Paul's wife is said to be buried in there without a head stone but I haven't spoken to a Sector yet to see what the records state.

O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe is buried in a hillside with no marker and the area is not taken care of. There is a well kept cemetery by where she is suppose to be buried by. It is believed that Hole in the Day is also buried in that hill side. Hole in the Day shot and killed O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe's daughter in law's Maria Margaret Fairbanks Beaulieu's brother. It is also rumored that O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe's grandson Colonel Clement Hudon Beaulieu killed Hole in the Day as retaliation but stories are that Hole in the Day's band members killed him. It will never be known who really killed Hole in the Day.

Julie Beaulieu

____________

Growing up on the Rez - we never knew about how relocation happened. We heard about the Cherokees and Sioux. In Red Lake we had a relocation program and we thought it was Indians in the 1950s going to cities to find jobs through the Aid of the BIA. I never thought that the Beaulieu's were on 3 removal orders almost 4.

1st with Madeline Island - because of the copper find.

2 from Sandy Lake/Lake Vermillion because of the massacre.

3 from Crow Wing because James Hill wanted the land for the railroad - since you are so close - it may be a nice ride to Crow Wing State Park - that was the Rez until James Hill took it. There are signs that will tell you where certain buildings were and Colonel Clement Beaulieu's house was re-eracted there. I knew about where O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikew was buried and when I seen it - it broke my heart. To think that this woman was responsible for populating northern Minnesota with Beaulieu's and their descendants and she's resting in overgrowth of weeds while the cemetery she is by - is well cared for.

4 when some of the Beaulieu's started to revolt against the Govt and the way they treated Natives and now they were educated to fight the fight - they received removal orders from White Earth until they proved through documentation where they had to choose what Rez they wanted to be recognized by - since Madeline Island was no more - they had no choice but to pick White Earth since everyone they ever knew was there. The Warrens, Caddotes and Beaulieu's were all shoved to White Earth even thought they were close by Lac du Flambeau, Red Cliff, Fond du Lac, etc.

Julie Beaulieu

Died:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=1982461&GRid=11059040&

Bazile married Skies) Margaret Racine (O-ge-mau-gee-shi-go-quay) (Queen of the in 1810 in Lac de Flambeau, Oneida Co., WI. Margaret (daughter of Crow) Waub-ish-gaug-aug-e (White Raven or White and Waub-Ish-Gaug-Aug-E) was born about 1790 in WI; died in 1860 in Crow Wing, MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Baptized as Marguerite Racine.

Marguerite Beauleu was born an Indian Maiden named O-Ge-mau-gee-shi-
go-qua, which means Queen of the Skies, but was baptized Margaret
Racine. (She was the daughter of the Indian Chief, White Raven.)

Marguerite Beauleu was born in 1790 in Wisconsin. The St. Croix, WI
census of 1840 says: Living with a son Clement H. Beauleu a female
age 50. The census of Crow Wing Village, Crow County, Minnesota of
1860: Dwelling #1 Clement H. Beauleu (her son) age 50 in same house
Marguerite Beauleu age 70, a female Indian, born in Wisconsin.
Marguerite Beauleu died in 1860 in Minnesota. Basile Hudon Beauleu
and Marguerite Beauleu had nine children.

Died:
She was buried in StFrancis Assisi, Crow Wing, Crow Wing, Minnesota. She has reference number 813sx.

O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe is buried in a hillside with no marker and the area is not taken care of. There is a well kept cemetery by where she is suppose to be buried by. It is believed that Hole in the Day is also buried in that hill side. Hole in the Day shot and killed O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe's daughter in law's Maria Margaret Fairbanks Beaulieu's brother. It is also rumored that O Gii Maa Gee Zhi Go Ikwe's grandson Colonel Clement Hudon Beaulieu killed Hole in the Day as retaliation but stories are that Hole in the Day's band members killed him. It will never be known who really killed Hole in the Day.

Julie Beaulieu