Feb 28 2010
Historic Marker: Joseph LaFramboise
Joseph LaFramboise Historic Marker
Joseph LaFramboise
Interpreter to the Sioux
1826 Licensed U.S. fur buyer with H. H. Sibley.
1834 Owned Little Rock Trading Post on the Minnesota River.
1837 Interpreter for Indian Treaty at Fort Snelling and Washington D.C.
1838-39 Guide for Jean N. Nicollet, U.S. Gov’t Cartographer in Nicollet Co.
July 23, 1851 Interpreter with Rev. Riggs for Sioux Indians at Traverse des Sioux Treaty.
1853 First assessor for West half of Nicollet Co.
1856 Largest land owner in Nicollet Co. – 400 A.
Nicollet County Bicentennial Commission
Located in Fort Ridgely State Park, near the Fort Ridgely Cemetery.
Joseph is my ggg grandfather. He was also a key player in the founding of New Ulm,Mn. Some 20 miles southeast of this marker. His g granddaughter,(My grandma), Vera (LaFramboise) Weldy is buried about 400 yards south of the marker. The family farm is across the road (State HWY 4) from Fort Ridgely. It is a century farm in the state of Minnesota.