Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-05-17
SOME EARLY RESIDENTS OF VICTORY.
Dr.. Porter Finds Ancient History and Documents 0
Great Interest to Younger Generation.


EDITOR CENSOR: Last spring l spent
a few hours in the registers Office in
Prairie du Chen and wiIt give You 4 few
Facts learned from the records pre-
served in that cid town
On March ., 1874 Louis du Roche and
Babtiste Gauthier decided to H. L. Dous-
man in consideration of 800, land
claim on the east bank of the Mississippi
river at place known as L'hiye mem
ut de Latrielleo (the wintering place Of
Latrielle.) and bounded ON the south by
the claim of Sasyst Denean, ON the west
by the Mississippi river and ON the north
and east by unsurveyed public lands;
same place lately occupied by said parties
of first part and now in possession of Fran
co.'s Patvielle. This claim was where
Victory nowis Patvielle is remembered
by James Fisher, Ira Stevens and other
pioneers. 1t seems that one Latrielle
had a trading post there prior to 1914.
At that date, as one infers from reading
the above deed, Dencan also had a post
there. How long prior to that time the
French traders had stores there it is
hard to tell.
B. w Brisbois of Prairie du Chen, in
WISCONSIN Historical Collection Volume
81 relates that Pierre La Point, who was
interpreter at Sinclair's Indian treaty at
Mackinaw in 1881, was employed by
Joseph Brisbois In 1917 at his trading
post at Bad AK, probably at or near Vic
tory. La Point married sister of the
great Sioux chief, Wabasha. Their
daughter, Mrs Antoine La Chapelle,
whom La Pointe taught to read and
write, was the mother of Theophilus La
Chapelle, who, in 1S41, represented Craw-
ford county in the assembly. Old Wa
basha, in 1905, was encamped at the
mouth of the Upper Iowa river opposite
where Victory is, and probably was a
visitor at Bad AK while his brother-in-
law, La Pointe, lived there a dozen
years later. Wabasha died of small pox.
at Prairie du Chen, in 1885. La Pointe,
we are told, was very sensible. good
man, greatly serviceable to the pioneer
settlement, prairie du Chen, where he
came in 1882 as well as to the Indians. .
cannot find record of any trading posts
at Bad AK prior to 1917 The Bad Ak
river however, was known to the French
long before that time. LIE Seur, in 1917,
passed by its mouth and called it Canoe
River, /" River aux Canoes.
AAllOOnCi OCCO Oii 1CIOIO 10 lIIt utAU Olu-
est recorded one I could find of Victory
real estate: Andre Narbome to Fl. L.
.Dousman, November Is, 1914, in CON
sideration of $173, sold AL of certain
claim and improvements situated on the
east bank of the Mississippi river be-
tween two and three miles below the
mouth of Bad AK river, and lately occu-
pied by A. Narbome and at present in
the occupation of Francis Patvielle, the
said claim to embrace one quarter sec
tion and is bounded on the west by the
Mississippi river, and on the north
south, and east by unsurveyed public
lands. Referring to the surveyors field
notes / learn that town II, range 2, in
which Victory is located was surveyed
in October, 1916. The trading post at
shat time was located about 81 rods
north of the steamboat landing. The
trading post there was attacked by In
dams once, who fired bullets into the
heavy door of the house. w 7. Sterl-
ing was shown the bullet holes after
Ira Stevens had purchased tire post. Mr.
Stevens still lives and remembers many
facts of interest of the river history of
fifty years ago. c. " PORTER.