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 THE HISTORY OF THE 
 
 OLD SIBLEY HOUSE 
 
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 ^^NCLUDING a brief history of the lives of 
 fl| General Henry H. Sibley, his wife and L 
 mother, and some Reminicences by our old pioneers 
 
 Wr.Ueii and Illustrated by R. S. McCOURT 
 
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 OFFICIAL D. A. R. SOUVFNIR, 1910 
 
 Pii!.iishfd and Copvi i^lilcrl l.v R. S. McCourt, 19|l) 
 
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MINNESOTA STATE SONG 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Burris 
 l)v i.u'iH, Minn ksoia 
 
 SPECIAL VERSE FOR FLAG-DAY. JUNE 14th, 1910 
 
 ^ir: — Tramp, Tramp, etc. 
 
 We have gathered here to-day, 
 
 From the cities of our state, 
 To do honor to the flag we all revere. 
 Many chapters have done well. 
 But "St. Paul" doth all excel, 
 As we laud them, these, our 
 Daughters D. A. R. 
 CHORUS: 
 
 Hail ! Thrice hail ! to Minnesota, 
 
 State of enterprises great. 
 With our men up to the times. 
 
 In our fields, or ports or mines, 
 And we are justly called 
 
 "The Bread and Butter State." 
 
MOST RKVEREND 
 
 ARCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND 
 
 Through whose recommendation the donation of the Sibley 
 House was made to the Minnesota D. A. R. 
 
THE HISTORY OF THE 
 
 OLD SIBLEY HOUSE 
 
 ^#NCLUDING a brief history of the lives of 
 ^fj General Henry H. Sibley, his wife and 
 mother, and some Reminicences by our old pioneers 
 
 Written and Illustrated by R. S. McCOURT 
 
 OFFICIAL D. A. R. SOUVENIR, 1910 
 
 Published and Copyrighted by R. S. McCourt, 1910 
 
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MINNESOTA SOCIKTV 
 DAUGHTKHS OK THK AMKKU'A.V HIOVOI.IITION 
 
 (Incorporated) 
 
 President — Mrs. D. W. McCourt, St. Paul Chapter St. Paul 
 
 Vice Pres. — Mrs. E. H. Loylied, Charter Oak Chapter .. Faribault 
 Sec.-Treas. — Mrs. F. H. Jerrard, St. Paul Chapter St. Paul 
 
 BOAKD OF I) l!l';< Tons. 
 
 Miss Dorotliy Loyhed, Anne Sargent Cliapter Minneapolis 
 
 Mrs. G. IX. Curran, Antliony Wayne Chapter Mankato 
 
 Mrs. J. H. Eggers, Abigail Burnliam Cliapter Plainview 
 
 Mrs. K. D. Cliase, Cliarter Oak Chapter Farilaault 
 
 Mrs. C. L. Cliase, Colonial Chapter Minneapolis 
 
 Mrs. J. W. Bishop, Distaff Chapter St. Paul 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Woodbridge, Daughters of Litjerty Cliapter. . .Dulutli 
 
 Mrs. F. H. Gray, Fergus Falls Chapter Fergus Falls 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Burris, Greysolon du Llnit Cliapter Dulutla 
 
 Mrs. Grant Bronson, Josiah Edson Cliapter Nortlifleld 
 
 Miss Marion W. Moir, Keewaydin Cliapter Minneapolis 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Sclmeider, Minneapolis Chapter Minneapolis 
 
 Mrs. Ell Torrance, Monument Chapter Minneapolis 
 
 Mrs. L. C. Jefferson, Nathen Hale Chapter St. Paul 
 
 Miss Rita Kelley, Reb. Prescott Slierman Chapter . .Minneapolis 
 
 Mrs. A. F. Faitoute, Rochester Chapter Rochester 
 
 Mrs. Dennis Follet, St. Paul Chapter St. Paul 
 
 Mrs. F. A. Rising, Wenonali Chapter Winona 
 
 Mrs. H. L. Stark, Captain Ricliard Sommers Cliapter .. .St. Peter 
 
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MRS. C. \V. WKLLS, Colonial Chajitcr, Minneapolis 
 Minnusota State Regent, I). A. R., 1910— 
 
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 MRS. D. \V. MceoURT, 
 
 St. Paul Chapter 
 
 President Minnesota Society, D. A. R. (Incorporated) 
 
MRS. E. II. LOVHED, Ex-State Regent 
 
 Charter Oak Chapter, Faribault 
 Vice-President Minnesota Society, D. A. R. 
 
"THE HISTORY OF THE OLD SIBLEY HOUSE. " 
 
 The liisloi'v (if llic lioiiii' (•!' any tii'cat man inust of 
 nceossity he a story oF the life of the man liimsdl'. At, 
 the saine time it will deal willi 1lia1 pai't of the man's 
 life of which we know llic least and arc most apt to l)e 
 interested in. 
 
 The old Sibley House has a history which is nnusii- 
 ally interesting; partly because of the peculiar construc- 
 tion of tlie house, and the fact of its l)cing the first of 
 its kind in the state; and i)ai"tly because of the part its 
 occupants have i)layed in making the history of the 
 state. 
 
 Three quarters of a century ago Henry II. Sibley, 
 then the chief factor of the fur trade in INIendota, built 
 for himself a home. The stone entering into its exterior 
 construction was quarried near the trading post. The 
 interior construction was done with the aid of a few 
 French employes and a number of Indians. The large 
 timbers which were used for braces, joists, beams, and 
 window sills were all hand-hewn, and were joined to- 
 gether by huge Avooden pegs. For lathes they used wil- 
 lows and rushes, cut from the banks of the Minnesota 
 river, these were woven together with withes made 
 from weeds and grass taken from the riverbottoms. 
 The i)laster was simply mud and (day which the river 
 again supplied, and this was finally coated with a good 
 modern j)! aster. This heavy interior construction to- 
 gether with the heavy stone exterior made the house 
 very warm and cosy.* 
 
 Th(^ front room on the main floor served as Sibley's 
 
 *In restoring the liouse a number of places have been 
 left exposed so tliat visitors may view the original construc- 
 tion. 
 
library and ofticc. Here he had. in one corner, the first 
 safe ever l)uilt in tlic Nort Invest , and here lie conducted 
 all the business of tlie fur company, and of his trading 
 post. When Sibley married, liowever. he tin-ned this 
 office into a parlor, and built an addition on the east 
 side of his house for an office. In tliis addition is the 
 only fireplace in the entire house. 
 
 In place of his desk and counters in the old office, 
 now stood fine new furniture, new Brussels carpets lay 
 on the floor, and at one end stood flie first ]>iano ever 
 brought to this region. The walls were hung with fine 
 l>ietures, and the room assumed a genuine aristocratic 
 air. On the first floor there was a fine large dining room 
 running across the entire 1)uilding, and in the rear there 
 was a large kitchen and a den. Five Ix'drooms and a 
 store room occupied the second floor. Here, as well as 
 in the spacious cellar, were stored tlie provisions for the 
 entire winter. The Sibley house continually being 
 flooded with guests and Indian visitors, there was 
 enough provisions kept here to furnish food for a score 
 or more people. 
 
 On the west side of the house there once ran a stair- 
 way up to the second floor, and the Indian visitors 
 usually used this to climb up 1(^ the attic, and here they 
 slei)t by the dozens every night, and sometimes, when 
 the attic floor was covered, they slept in the parlor. 
 
 Here ]\Ir. and ]\Irs. Sibley passed the earlier days of 
 tlieir married life. In the Sibley parlor took place two 
 notable marriages, between Mrs. Sibley's two sisters, 
 Abbie and Kacliel. and Dr. Potts and (ieu. .Johnson. 
 
 In the big frotil bedroom on the second floor the 
 Sibley children were born, and si range 1o say each in 
 a different state, the Ixuindai-ies of the states changing 
 between the times of Ihcir births. One in Michigan; 
 one in Wisconsin; one in Iowa : one in the Dakotas; one 
 ill Minnesota terriloi-y, and one in Minnesota state. 
 
 'i'his modest mansion of (ieiieral Siblev's was never 
 
A FEW NOTAELKS 
 
 General Sibley and a few of the noted guests whom he entertained 
 
 ill his Mendota Mansion. 
 
closed to the sti'aii<i'('r. jiiid was often times visited l),y 
 travelers of military, seientifie. and ])olitical distinc- 
 tion. Among the many iiotinl visitors, were Gov. Lewis 
 Cass of Michigan; ]\Ia,jor II. S. Long; the eelehrated 
 author Schoolcraft ; Jean ]\I. Nicollet, the explorer; 
 Lieut. John C. Fremont ; Geo. Catlin, the artist and 
 author; G. W. Featherstonhaugh, the U. S. geologist; 
 Capt. IMaryatt, the author (whom Sibley dismissed from 
 his home, for conspiring against the life of his host,* 
 while the recipient of his hospitality) ; Count Harasty, 
 Gov. Ramsey, and many others, equally famous. 
 
 The burden of entertaining these guests was thrown 
 upon ^Frs. Sibley and lier two sister, INIrs. Potts and 
 ]\Irs. Johnson, who did much toward making the house 
 a welcome and cheery refuge for the traveler. 
 
 In I860, Gen. Sibley removed his family to St. Paul, 
 and sold his honu' to the St. Peter's Catholic parish in 
 ]\Iendota. The Catliolic Sisters then used th(> home as 
 a parochial school, placed a bellfry on the roof, and re- 
 modeled the interior. In 1897, '98, and '99, Burt Ilar- 
 wood i-ented the building and here he conducted a sum- 
 mer art school (see page 39.) 
 
 In 1905 the parish had a new roof put on the house, 
 and rented it to ^Ir. Pernier, a IMendota merchant, to b(^ 
 used as a store house. Finally he had 1o abandon the 
 use of the house, ;ili Ihe windows being out, the doors 
 gone, and the storing of his goods there made unsafe. 
 
 It now looked as if the house would never be pre- 
 sei-x'cd as it should be. The Historical Society and I). 
 A. I\. had tried often to obtain possession oi" it. but it 
 could not be bought for love nor money. 
 
 One day, however, the members of the jNIendota. 
 parish were called together to decide the fate of the old 
 mansion. The ])arish priest had received word from 
 his Gi'ace. Ai-chbishop Irebirid. th;it it wouM i)lease him 
 
 *A full account of this episode will be found in "West's 
 Life Ancestry and Times of H. H. Sibley," page 91-9 2. 
 
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to soo tlio liouse placed in llie liaiids of some society, 
 who might take care of and preserve it from ruin. At 
 the same time was read a h'tter from the St. Paul 
 Chapter D. A. R., to the clVcct that if the house were 
 deeded to them, they would see that it was restored and 
 made into a museum. This interest in the house by the 
 St. Paul ( 'hapter. and this hind rcMpiest for the donation, 
 by the Archbishop, were the results of the efforts of 
 ]\Irs. D. W. IMcCourt of St. Paul, who conceived and 
 carried out the idea. The St. Paul Society was incor- 
 porated with ]\Irs. ^IcCourt as chairman of the board of 
 directors, and steps were soon taken to turn the house 
 over to the state D. A. R. 
 
 Articles of incorporation were drawn up and ap- 
 proved, at the state council meeting March 12th, and 
 on April 19th, at the St. Paul quarterly meeting, the 
 formal offer from the St. Paul Chapter to the state 
 took place. Mrs. E. H. Loyhed, accepting for the state. 
 The same day the papers were drawn up, Mrs. McCourt 
 was elected president; Mrs. E. H. Loyhed, vice presi- 
 dent ; Mrs. F. H. Jerrard, secretary-treasurer, and the 
 regents of the chapters in the state, directors. 
 
 Things now began to fly in ^Nlendota and the restora- 
 tion began. A caretaker was appointed, and prepara- 
 tions were begun for a big gala day on Flag day, 
 June the l-tth, 1910, which should open to the public 
 the first stone house built in Minnesota, as a historic 
 museum. 
 
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HON. HKNKV IIASTINCxS SIBLKV, LT-. D. 
 
 At the time he was a member of Congress in 1849, from 
 
 Minnesota Territory 
 
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THE LIFE OF HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY, LL. D. 
 
 K. S. Mrfi.iMrr 
 
 The first governor of the State of jMiniiesota, Ilcairy 
 Hastings Sibley, was born at Detroit, Michigan, Febru- 
 ary 20, 1811. He was tlie son of Chief Justice Sohtnioii 
 Sibley of the Supreme Court, who was a former dis- 
 trict attorney, a member of the first legislature in the 
 Xorthwest, and delegate to Congress in 1820. AVliiie a 
 meml)er of this body he drafted and introduced into tlie 
 legislature an act to incorporate Detroit, and in conse- 
 quence was voted the freedom of the city, and later was 
 elected as it's mayor. General Silbley's mother was 
 Sarah AYhipple-Sproat, a real daughter of the American 
 Revolution, being the daughter of a colonel in tlie 
 American army, and the granddaughter of the famous 
 Comnu)dore AVhipple. 
 
 Young Sil)ley received his c(lu<*ation in a private 
 school in Detroit, IMichigan. Wlien he was still a very 
 small boy, his parents made plans to have him attend 
 the West Point ^Military Academy, and he subsequently 
 undertook a course of education preparatory to the life 
 of a soldier. Later he resigned in favor of his brother, 
 Ebenezer, who became a colonel in the regular army. 
 His father then wished him to study law, which he be- 
 gan to do, at the age of fifteen. In about two years, 
 however, he gave up his legal studies, and when but 
 seventeen years of age, he went to the military post at 
 Sault Ste. Marie, where lie engaged as a clerk in the 
 store of one John Ilulburt. The next year he took a 
 position as clerk in the American Fur Coiiii)any"s stoi-e 
 at Alackinac, whicli lu^ held for five years, or until iu 
 
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1832-183-4, he was made purchasiug agent of tlie Mack- 
 inac station. 
 
 In 183-4 he formed a partnership with Hercules L. 
 Dousman and Joseph Rolette in the American Fur Co., 
 of New York city, of which Ramsey Crooks was presi- 
 dent. By the terms of the agreement between the 
 three men, Dousman and Rolette were to continue in 
 charge of the Prairie du Chien station, and Sibley was 
 to have control of the country above Lake Pepin, to the 
 head waters of the Missouri, and north to the British 
 line, with headquarters at St. Peters (now Mendota), at 
 that time the chief town of the trading district. He at 
 once set out on horseback with Alexis Bailly, and two 
 French-Canadian employes of the fur company. On 
 their arrival at Fort Snelling. November 7, 3834:, 
 Sibley immediately began his work, residing meanwhile 
 with his friend Bailly. In 1835, Sibley l)ought out 
 Bailly 's interest in the St. Peters depot, and in the same 
 year he built the Sil)ley Home. He moved to St. Paul 
 in 1862. During this twenty-seven years residence in 
 his ]\Iendota home, he was successively a citizen of 
 four different states, Michigan, Iowa, AVisconsin, and 
 Minnesota without a change of residence, due to 
 changes in territorial boundaries. His associates dur- 
 ing his early stay in Mendota were chiefly the officers 
 of the foi't, the traders and employes of the fur com- 
 pany, and Indians. 
 
 He had been honored by the visits of many men of 
 scientific and ]iolitical renown, who were attracted to 
 his mansion, not only from tlie United States, but also 
 from Euro])!'. He soon became an authority on the 
 geography, inhabitants, and resources of the Northwest 
 territory. 
 
 His acquaintance with the Indians was very wide. 
 He spoke their language, and that of the French, fully 
 as wi'll as lie did English. It is said that Sibley knew 
 his Itidiaii neighbors so well 1ha1 he felt no fear in 
 
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slccpiti-i' in Ihcii' lodti'cs, wliidi he (iricii did. Sibley 
 was knowu by th(; savages as " Wah-zo-o-niaii-see" 
 (walkor in the i)ines), and " Wali-pe-ton-honska" (tlie 
 
 t;dl trader). 
 
 In 18H8, General Sil)ley was appointed by Gov. 
 Chambers, of Iowa, the first justice of the peace, west of 
 the Missjssipi)i i-ivei-, in present jMinnesota, in that por- 
 tion of the state west of the river, a portion of Jowa, 
 nnd the p^reater part of the Dakotas. By this appoint- 
 ment he l)ecome the sole and supreme law giver of a 
 territory as large as the Empire of France. He was also 
 the first foreman of the grand jury in these limits. 
 Governor Chambers in 1842, commissioned him captain 
 of militia, and he raised and drilled seventy-five 
 mounted riflemen. In 1848, he Avas elected delegate to 
 congress from the territory left over after the admis- 
 sion of Wisconsin, and after some delay was given a 
 seat. The congressmen at AVashington Avere very much 
 surprised when they first beheld Congressman Sibley. 
 
 For many days before Sibley's arrival tliey had 
 planned on seeing a wild and wooly cowboy, with a re- 
 volver in each hip pocket, or at least dressed in Indian 
 costume, with uncouth bearing and dress such as would 
 be characteristic of the rude and semi-civilized people 
 who had sent him to the capitol. AYhen Sibley appear- 
 ed he was dressed in clothes which would not have 
 been out of place in any court of Europe, moreover he 
 had a stately and dignified bearing, and a culture which 
 few of his collegues possessed. They were naturally 
 surprised, and could scarcely believe that they were 
 looking on the Minnesota delegate. 
 
 During his first session he introduced, and secured 
 
 the passage of an act organizing ^Minnesota Territory.* 
 
 In the fall of 1849, he was elected to represent this new 
 
 territory, and was re-elected in 1851. 
 
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 In arranging the details of this bill, admitting Minne- 
 sota as a territory, General Sibley had many a warm discus- 
 sion and argument with Stephen A. Douglas, then chairman 
 
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As a memlxT of congress Sil)I('y was an invaluable 
 man to liis territory, wliidi was both lar<j:i' and had a 
 sparse white population, and was l)elieved by many to 
 be unfit for settlement, or as one member expressed it 
 a '"Hyperborean Ke^iion." This ])ri'judicc Sibley soon 
 dispelled by a nund)er of well written articles for the 
 press, in which he set forth the advantag'es of the 
 Northwest reg'arding its climate, inhabitants and re- 
 sources. It moreover was due to Sibley's great tact and 
 poAvers of persuasion that was able to procure the 
 liberal and generous appropriations, which ho did for 
 his state, and "which one possessing less tact than he 
 could never have ol)tained.* 
 
 In 1857 he was elected to the i)i'esidency of the 
 Democratic branch of the (Constitutional Convention, 
 and in 1853 he was elected the first governor of the 
 state of Minnesota. 
 
 riis military services during the Indian troubles 
 from 1862-65 gained for him a Avide reputation and re- 
 nown, wdiich will ncxcr ]ierish, though never be fully 
 appreciated. The next day following the sudden and 
 disastrous uprising of the Sioux of Minnesota, August 
 ]8, 3862, he w^as commissioned a colonel commanding 
 the expeditioniary force sent against them. That even- 
 ing he planned out his whole campaign, which plan he 
 followed out during the entire war, with scarcely a 
 deviation from his original designs. 
 
 Sibley was so successful in putting down the upris- 
 ing that the president Abraham Lincoln commissioned 
 him a l)rigadier general, for galbml and meritorious 
 services in the field. In ls(i4-(ir) lie was in command of 
 
 of the house committee on territories, regarding the loca- 
 tion of the capitol. Sibley finally won his point, and con- 
 vinced Douglas that St. Paul was at least somewhat superior 
 to Mendota as a capitol city, and when Douglas later visited 
 St. Paul he came to agree with Sibley's arguments. 
 
 His speech before the house committee Dec. 28, 184 8, his 
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the military district of ^Minnesota, from wliich he was 
 relieved in August. ISC)"), ami was i-clircd with the rank 
 oi' lircNct major ^eiiei'al. and detailed on a eonnnission 
 willi (iem-ral Cnrtis. and others to conelude treaties 
 with the Sionx. and the hostile Indians of the Missouri. 
 
 General Sibley was married hy the post chiiplain, 
 Kev. Ezekiel (!ear. at the Fort on May M. IMd.'i, to IMiss 
 Sarah L. Steele, the dantihter of (ieneral -lames Steele 
 of Peinisylvania, who like Sibley's mother was a 
 Daniihter of the American l\e\'ohdion. (A .sket(di of 
 this noble Avonmn's life is to be fonnd (dsewhere in this 
 
 1 klet.) 
 
 We nnist not thiid< of Sibley only as a statesman, 
 and soldier. Oni- beloved governor was not a man wdiq 
 songht fajne. lu^ was rather a man who wished to devote 
 his life to the betterment of his fellowmen. 
 
 He was by natnre kindhearted, generous, and liberal 
 even to i)rodigality. and often gave the very furniture 
 in his house to the guest, who might admire some 
 si>ei'ial article. He probably gave more to public, and 
 ])rivate charity than any man in the state ever did. 
 
 Of Sibley's literary abilities nnndi might be said 
 His literary contributions in his younger days, were 
 ])oth in his own name and under the nom de plume of 
 "Hal a Dakotah." He wrote and delivered many ex- 
 cellent addresses during his life as congressman and 
 governor, most of whi(di are today preserved in the 
 historical library at the state capitol. 
 
 His letter to Senator Foote. which appeared in the 
 Washington Union. Feb. ISfjO. gave to tlu' outside world 
 the first authentic information concerning these regions, 
 
 maiden effort in Congress is one whicli any constituency 
 might well be proud of, and not only reflected honor on him- 
 self, but determined the result of the whole sharp struggle, 
 and proved him to be the peer of any debater in the councils 
 of the Union. — Minn. Hist. Coll. Vol. I, PP. 69-7 6. 
 
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and did much to attract public attention hither.* His 
 brief histories of the lives of his pioneer friends, and 
 his breezy and pointed newspaper articles are classics 
 in themselves. 
 
 As a citizen of St. Paul, Sibley was a very useful 
 and able man. From 1888-1890. he was the Commander 
 of the Loyal Legion, and at other times he was presi- 
 dent of the Cham1)er of Commerce, director of the First 
 National Bank, and of the St. Paul & Sioux City rail- 
 way, president of the St. Paul Gas Co., president of the 
 Minnesota Life Insurance Co.. president of the St. Paul 
 City Bank, Fellow of the American Geographical So- 
 ciety, president Oakland Cemetery Association, presi- 
 dent of the Board of Regents of the University of jNlin- 
 nesota, and for two j^ears ])resident of the State Normal 
 School Board. 
 
 Many places in IMinnesota have been named after 
 Sibley, the city of Hastings, Sibley County, and in St. 
 Paul, Sibley street and Sibley school. 
 
 General Sibley died in St. Paul, Feb. 18, 1891, within 
 two days of his eightieth birthday. 
 
 The state of IMinnesota owes a debt to Sibley, which 
 it never can repay, and it would seem that the state 
 has been ungrateful in not having ei'ected some sort of 
 a monunu'ut to his memory. 
 
 It h;is reniiiiiied for the Dnugliters of the American 
 Revolution to erect this monument, which they have 
 most fittingly done in resloi'ing of Silble^y's old man- 
 sion, and Ihe mak'ing of it into a historic museum. 
 
 Note by Chief Justice (Joodrich, page 271, Collection 
 Minn. TTist. So. 
 
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GEN'L HENRY HASTINGS SH^LEY 
 Pholo bv C. A. Zimmerman, 1890 
 
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MRS. SARAH si'koAr snu.Kv 
 
 A REAL DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 
 
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A REAL DAUGHTER OF THE AMERICAN 
 REVOLUTION. 
 
 Few of the j)i()ii('('r woincii of Wcstci'ii civilizat ion 
 are more deserving' of a i)lace in liistory than (leiici-ni 
 Sii)]ey's mother, Sarah AVhii)i)le Sproat, and as A 
 HEAL J)ArCIITTEH OF THE A:\IERU"AX KEV()!,('. 
 TIOX. she is entitled to a phiee in this D. A. R. hookhi. 
 Sarah S])i-()at's g'randfather Avas the famous Com- 
 modore Al)raham Whipi)h'. and her father was a 
 eolonel in the Ameriean army, both serving with brav- 
 ery and distinction during- the entire Revohitionary wai'. 
 Sarah AVhippU' S{)roat was born in Providence R. I.. 
 January 28. 1782, just four months after the surrender 
 of Cornwallis at Vorktown. The events in her life 
 seem to be eoineident with great events in th(» liistory 
 of this country, for when she was but seven years old, 
 the same year AVashingtoii Avas tirst elected president, 
 her parents left their Rlioih^ Island home for the then 
 unsettled and mostly undiscovered AVest. ti'av(ding far 
 out to the mouth of the iMuskingum river. Ohio, and 
 settling at a place which socni became kiioAvn as 
 Marietta. 
 
 They were compcdled to live in log huts, surrounded 
 by Indians, with poor food and scanty clothing, contin- 
 ually exposed to hardships and privations which w^'re 
 enough to discourage the strongest hearted pioneer. 
 Here she lived until she was ten years old. when an 
 Indian war threatened the settlers. Her father's first 
 thought was naturally of his only daughter, whose life 
 he felt he could not risk in the face of such appalling- 
 danger, and so he travelled with her on horseback seven 
 hundred miles to the Moavian school at Bethlehem Pa , 
 where she remained three years. Having completed her 
 
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elementary training she Avent to Philadelphia to complete 
 her education. At seventeen she returned to ]\Iarietta, 
 Avhicli was now much larger and safer. Not long after 
 her return a handsome lawyer named Sibley came into 
 the settlement. A short time afterwards he became 
 acquainted with Colonel Sproat's handsome daughter; 
 the friendship soon ripened into love, and terminated in 
 their marriage in October, 1802, when Sarah Sproat was 
 in her tAventieth year. 
 
 The young couple now moved to Detroit, IMich., 
 where they found a warm welcome from a big circle of 
 congenial friends, many of whom were the descendants 
 of French and English noblemen. Sibley soon hung 
 out his shingle, and began a legal practice, which was 
 eventually to land him on the Michigan Supreme Court 
 bench. 
 
 In the spring of 1805, the town of Detroit was de- 
 stroyed by fire and the Sibley's lost their little home, 
 and their few belongings in the flames. The parents of 
 Henry Hastings Sibley, however, were not to be dis- 
 couraged by such a little thing as a loss by fire, they 
 immediately purchased an old delapidated house on the 
 main square, which they refurnished and repaired. It 
 was in this house that our first Governor was born on 
 February 20, 1811. 
 
 Every reader of histoi-y is awai'c of the terrible suffer- 
 ing Detroit experienced from the hands of the British 
 during the war of 1812, and of the disgraceful sur- 
 render of the fort by Gen. Hull. AVhen the attack Avas 
 made on the city, the women and children were all 
 placed in the fort for safety. Mrs. Sibley, then the 
 mother of three children was found holding her young- 
 est child, Henry Hastings, in her arms, while with her 
 busy hands she was making cartridges for the soldiers. 
 Four officers including her cousin, were killed by a 
 cannonhall in the adjoining room. Her husband Avas 
 out in llic field commanding a company of militia at 
 
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the time, yet amid all llic discharging of rifles, the roar 
 of cannon, the wails of the dying, and the cra.sliing of 
 falling timbers she eoidimicd her work with coolness and 
 bravery, up to the moment of the disgraceful surrender. 
 History tells us that IT. IT. Sibley was a captive in the 
 hands of the British when ho was scarcely a year old. 
 
 After the sui'rcudcr Mr. and j\lrs. Sibley made two 
 visits to Ohio, the last being in 1819, when Mrs. Sil)ley 
 brought her widowed mother with her back to Detroit. 
 She was now fifty years old, and the mother of nine 
 children. Her husband's honors were now thick upon. 
 him, for he was seated on the Michigan Supreme Court 
 bench, and had received all the honors the city of 
 Detroit could bestow upon him. Henry Hastings had 
 by this time grown into manhood and had gone to seek 
 his fortunes in the great "West, where the white man's 
 • home was only a hunting camp or a trading post. 
 
 Mrs. Sibley's life up to this time had been a long 
 hard struggle against the wants and hardships of fron- 
 tier life, she had helped to found a state, fashion a ris- 
 ing generation, fix in the minds of her children a re- 
 spect for truth, the love of virtue, the fear of God, and 
 noble aspirations. To the life and memory of this good 
 woman Mrs. Ellett, in "The Pioneer Women of the 
 West" has assigned a place of honor. In speaking of 
 Mrs. Sibley, she says: ''The duties incumbent on her 
 as a wife and mother she faithfully performed. A large 
 family grew up around her, in whose minds it was her 
 constant endeavor to instill such high principles as 
 would make them true to themselves and useful mem- 
 bers of society. To her, most truly, could the scriptural 
 passage be applied, 'Her children shall rise up and call 
 her blessed.' " 
 
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MRS. SARAH srKI':i.I'; SIHLI'IN 
 
 24 
 
MRS. SARAH JANE SIBLEY 
 -By- 
 Mrs. Julia M. Johnson, M. A., Dean of Women at 
 Macalester College. 
 
 Mrs. Sarah Jano Sil)l('y \v;is ;i daughlt^r of GcTieral 
 James Steele, a Hrigadier in llic war of 1812, tlii'cc of 
 whose older brothers had been oftlcci-.s in llic Kcvolu- 
 tionary war. 
 
 No testimonial to (General Sibley wouhl be a(bM|uat<' 
 without a cordial tribute to the wife, who pi-oved her- 
 self a l)rave adventurer, alile to share without a mur- 
 mur the hardships of ])i()neer life, and by loyalty to her 
 husband's interests nuike much of his success possible. 
 All agree that she was beautiful, graceful and accom- 
 plished, but she was more. ]\Irs. Sibley had master(Ml 
 the fine art of housekeeping, and knew how to train and 
 control a motley grou}) of servants in those days when 
 the labor agencies of St. Louis sent to far-away ]\Ien- 
 dota sorry excuses as cooks ami liouse maids. p]ven 
 under these conditions she exerted a social influence 
 that was felt throughout the Northwest, and did much 
 toward making St. Paul one of the nu)st cosnu)p()litan 
 and best organized of our city connnunities. 
 
 She was an exjiert needlewoman who knew how to 
 make clothes and how to wear them ; a gracicuis hostess, 
 sufficiently democratic for tlie time and place, yet 
 possessing a jjersonal dignity that commanded r('sp(M:'t 
 from all classes. Iler hospitality was boundless; many 
 a cold niglit the Indians la\' wrapped in tlieii- blankets 
 on the parlor floor as closely as they could be placed, 
 while every room in the house was occupied by guests 
 or relatives. 
 
 25 
 
Her children found in her a sympathetic and versa- 
 tile companion who, by foresight and executive ability, 
 provided, without seeming to do so, for their comfort 
 and amusement. Humor was one of the prime luxuries 
 of the Sibley home, as it had been in that other genial 
 home in Lancaster, Penn., and many rigors were soften- 
 ed by the ready jest and capacity for amusement. 
 
 Had Mrs. Sibley been less loving, her life might have 
 been longer. The death of her two little children and 
 the long anguish of separation from her husband, while 
 he was absent in the Indian campaign, left a permanent 
 shadow upon her life. AVhile future Minnesotans may 
 like to know these intimate facts of her history, it will 
 be as the heroic wife of Gen. Sibley, the most romantic, 
 the most distinguished pioneer of early Minnesota that 
 she Avill be remembered, admired and loved best. 
 
 AVliat better material could a novelist or a dramatist 
 Avisli tlian the actual life story of General and Mrs. 
 Siblev. 
 
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Scenes in Mendota 
 
 MAIN STREET 
 
 OLD FARIDAL l.T HOUSE 
 27 
 
ST. PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH 
 The Oldest Church in the State of Minnesota 
 
 MR. IREFEEE AL'(;i': 
 For forty years in the employ of Cen'l Sibley 
 
 28 
 
29 
 
A Word from our Pioneer Friends 
 
 H. S. FAIRCHILD 
 
 31 
 
By Request — A Brief Appreciation of 
 GENERAL HENRY HASTINGS SIBLEY 
 
 liy 11. S. Faiivhild. 
 
 ^liiiiifsotii li;is had five really great men: (leiicral 
 Sibley, <i()v. Alex. Ramsey. Senator C. K. Davis. Arch- 
 bishop Irchind. and J. J. Hill. 
 
 Of tiifsc tile h'ast appreciated, though universally 
 loved and admired, is ({en. Sihlcy. Still the public esti- 
 mation falls far below his nici'itorious. self-sacrifieing 
 services to the state, in his ci\il and inilitary life. 
 
 To thosi' who know that Stephen A. Douglas, in the 
 Enabling Act for the organization of Minnesota as a 
 Territory, had located the capitol at INIendota. which 
 would have made ]\lr. SiUh-y a millionaire, and that 
 Gen. Sibley with an uttci- alniegation of self and thiidv- 
 ing only of the state's interests, firmly and steadfastly 
 opposed local ing the capitol at ^leiidota. and finally 
 succeeded in |)lacing i1 at St. Paul; and l<iio\v how i)er- 
 sistentl.w ably, and (^bxpienlly he clianipioiied in Con- 
 gress Goodhue's hold, sagacious and pro])hetic project 
 of constructing a r;iilroad from New Orleans to Duluth, 
 together with all other maltei-s affecting the interests 
 of ^linnesola: ^\•ho know how raithfully he stood by 
 Douglas in the ('liai'lest(Ui convention, when rebellion 
 Avas rearing its head: who know how earnestl\' he op- 
 posed the •t;">.000.0()() loan hill forseeing its coi-i'upt use, 
 and as earnestly insisted (in payment of the bonds after 
 the state's honor had been pledged. Those who k-now 
 of these and man\' other unselfish services, k'liow his 
 splendid military services; defeating Little ("row antl 
 his hordes of bloodthirsty savages; saving the state 
 fi-oin desolation, rescuing more than a hundi'ed of cap- 
 tive women suffei-ing avoi'sc than death, and driving 
 the savages beyond our boi'dei's; those who know these 
 things a!id man\' iiiore that might he emunerated, feel 
 that the statue of lletify Hastings Sibley should have 
 tilled one of the ni(dies in the Temple of Fame at 
 
 32 
 
AVnsliiiiiitoii. W'liy tho slate lias iiol loii^- a<j,() dccriMHl 
 it and made the necossary appi'opriat ion is hryoiid 
 coniprelieiisioii. 
 
 Others are worthy of the lioiior, but heyond all 
 quest ion. the lirst place should have heen assigned to 
 the bold, brave, ad\-enturous pioncM'i'. the successful 
 business man. the wise, sagacious, ehxjueiit and watch- 
 ful legislator, the wise ruler, tlie successful mili1ai\\' 
 eomuuiuder. — to Gen. Henry Hastings Sibley, who also 
 should be inimoiialized in uuii-ble on our stale ca{)itol 
 grounds. 
 
 The cond)iiu'd coni'lesy, urbanity and dignity of his 
 manners besjioke the blue blood that had flowed for 
 several centuries thi-ough the veins of his illustrious 
 ancestry. 
 
 He was the i)roduct of seven or lught centuries of 
 culture and experience in the administration of public 
 affairs in England and America, to which he added a 
 most varied and remarkable experience from boyhood 
 to old age as an adventurous frontiersnum. a hunter, 
 an explorer, a business man, a scholar, an author, a 
 legislator, a statesman, and a successful military com- 
 mander. 
 
 He was so near to us, so connected with our business 
 enterprises, our societies and associations, so accessible, 
 so wholly unpretentious, that his fellow citizens only 
 thought of him as a neighbor and friend, and were in 
 a large measure oblivious of the fact that he was one 
 of the really great men of his generation. 
 
 General Sibley was a Nobleman. The dignity was 
 conferred by the Almighty. He carried the credentials 
 of his high birth in his face, his ])ei'son, in his cai'riage 
 and manners. 
 
 He w^as one of the really great nuui of his day. anil a 
 man of the highest character. 
 
 Intellect, courage, charactiu" Avere unmistakably 
 stamped on his face. 
 
 As time recedes, his fame will grow. 
 
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fMAAA-^^ 
 
 34 
 
A. L. LARPENTEUR. 
 
 "The Oldest Living Citizen in the State of Minnesota." 
 
 ]\Ir. A. L. Larpciit ciir \v;is lioi'ii in iJall iiiiorc;, JMary- 
 land, I\hiy 1<>. IS^o. lie spent most of his car-ly days in 
 St. Lonis, ]\I<)., and i1 was I'l'oin there tliat he came to 
 St. Paul in 184;5. when the city had hul two or- thcee 
 small houses, and a few tradini: stores. Mr. Lar[)eiilein' 
 was one of the menihers of the eoM\cntion which met at 
 Stillwater in 1848, and sent II. II. Sibley to con<?ress 
 as the first dele<j'ate from ^Minnesota tei-i-itor.w 
 
 When St. Paul was laid out in July, 1847, Lar})enteur 
 Avsa the one who ])lantpd the first stake for the survey- 
 ors, and when the town became a city in 1854, he was 
 elected a member of the first council. Today Mr. Lar- 
 penteur is eighty-seven years of age; hale and hearty; 
 and the only man left of those who laid the foundations 
 of our state, before it was known as such. Tiie follow- 
 ing is a story which he is very fond of relating, concern- 
 ing General Sil)ley's tame elk: 
 
 "While still occupying my little honu', at the place 
 where the police station now^ stands, I, one morning 
 looked out into the back field, and saw an elk feeding. 
 The animal had immense antlers, and I called my wife 
 to see them. I felt sure that we should have a little 
 fresh elk-beef for a change, so I took down my gun; 
 carefully approached the "critter;" took careful aim, 
 and fired. I had loaded my gun with fine shot, and it 
 seemed to make no impression on the animal at all, for 
 instead of running aAvay the elk came directly toward 
 me, and licked the hand of its would-be murderer. I 
 noticed then, that the elk had a collar on, and learning 
 that H. H. Sibley had a tame elk, I concluded that it 
 must be his, so I took a rope and secured it. That after- 
 noon a steamer left from St. Paul for IMendota, and I 
 took the animal aboard and returned it to its owner, 
 who thanked me very kindly for the trouble his 
 menagerie had put me to. 1 never told him, however, 
 how I had attempted to kill his elk with nuistard-seed 
 shot. 
 
 "When Ignorance Is Bliss Tis Folly to Be AVise." 
 
 35 
 
A WORD FROM B. H. RANDALL 
 
 — of— 
 WINONA, MINN. 
 
 At the time IT. II. Sibley was L'luvl Factor of the 
 American Fur Company, at Mendota, I was a clerk for 
 Franklin Steele, sutler at Fort Snelling, and as Mrs. 
 Sibley was a sister of Franklin Steele, I was often a 
 guest at the Sibley home, now owned by the D. A. R., 
 and was present there in 1851 at the marriage of Lieut. 
 R. AV. Johnson, U. S. A., and Miss Kachel Steele^ a sister 
 of Mrs. Sibley. 
 
 After the close of the Civil War, on his occasional 
 hunting trips to Nicoll(»t county with such companions 
 as Gen. W. S. Hancock-, ('ol. (iilmaii, and Bruno 
 Beaupre, he was oftcTi a guest at my house in St. Peter. 
 
 [ trust that the IMinnesota Society Daughters of the 
 American Revolution, who own the Sibley house in 
 Mendota, will aid in having placed in IMcniorial Hall, 
 Wasliinglon, a statute of Cen. Sil)lrv, TllF. FIRST 
 MINNESOTAN. 
 
 R. H. RANDALL, 
 
 Winona. 
 
 36 
 
37 
 
38 
 
]M().\(i llic iiijitiy rciniiiiseenees 
 wliicli cm-icli the Sibley House, 
 iioiu' appcjils more to the art 
 lovers of the state, than the 
 incinory of Hurt Ilarwood's 
 si-hool of art hehl in this historic 
 lioiiie ill the siniinier of 1895. 
 This i)hi('e. saturated Avith 
 primitive beauty, supplied the art atmosphere neees- 
 sary to inspire the students, many of whom by extend- 
 ed art culture in Eastern and European centers, have 
 since become recognized beyond ordinary. 
 
 Nerval INIarchand, whose illustrations are seen in 
 Harper's and the Century; Edward McKey, whose re- 
 cent portraits have gained him distinction in New York; 
 the late Marguerite Heiser, whose work had given her 
 international fame ; Elizabeth Chant, whose mural 
 paintings adorn many Minneapolis homes and the BIc- 
 Key sisters, now living in New York, designers of tapes- 
 tries and costumes ; are but a few of this memorable 
 Mendota art colony. 
 
 The large front room, with its deep seated windows, 
 its worn floors, its tapestry hung walls, its antique spin- 
 ning wheel and its grand piano, was the rendezvous for 
 groups of people, — the students and their friends, and 
 no visit was complete without an inspection of the 
 house, with its unique and primitive construetiou and 
 its story of early historical interest. 
 
 The lower back room was the art gallery. wIktc the 
 exhibition was continuous, for all sketches were thuml)- 
 tacked on its walls at the close of each day amid a 
 coterie as anxious to give as to receive criticism. And 
 
 39 
 
many a varied and valuable eritieism was given by such 
 able critics as Burt Harwood and Alex. Founier, a fre- 
 quent visitor at the school. The ufjper floor was used 
 as a dormitory and cots were crowded as the summer 
 advanced to accommodate the throng of applicants. 
 
 ]\Irs. Antionette de Forest Parsons, an artist of pro- 
 nounced ability, a pupil of Chase and otlier dislin- 
 guished Eastern artists, made an agreeable chaperon 
 who left nothing undone to secure soeial entertainment 
 and extended her generous hosi)itality to the many St. 
 l^aul and ^Minneapolis visitors who availed themselves 
 of this opportunity to visit the historic old homestead. 
 
 So the Sibley House, rich in historical interest, 
 bears an important pai't in the Art development of the 
 state, as well. 
 
 — K. ^laud Clum. 
 
 I..SI&1 
 
 
 
 ki\i.k \ii',\vs 
 40 
 
General Sibley's Most Intimate 
 Friend and Associate 
 
 GEN'L RICHARD \V. JOHNSON 
 Brevit Major-General, U. S. A. 
 
 41 
 
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 42 
 
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 In the purchase of bonds our preference is given to carefully 
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 O.ie Volume, 8 vo. Cloth. Fine Sl=el Portrait. Price, $1.25 Postpaid 
 
 Ea W. PORTER 
 
 76 East Fifth Street ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA 
 
 A. 'i\ 1[AI^I>, I)wiT<;(ilfST 
 
 Lowry Bldg., 5th and St. Peter Sts. ST. PAUL. MINN. 
 
 1\ M. 1^VRKH:R Sc CO., l)u'iu;(iisTw 
 
 Store open all night. Phone 315 
 Wabasha and F.fth Sireets ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA 
 
 ^ ^ * w .- I I Y J T 378-580-590 Holly Avenue 
 
 VJxV IV 1 1 ^V I ^1^ ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA 
 
 MRS. F,ACKUS SCHOOL FOR (iIRT>S 
 
 I'.oarciiiiL; and Day (lei)artineiits. Collect; Preparatory ami i'inisbin.j; 
 Coiirse.s, Art and Music. Send for year liook. 
 
 ('\KKIK Ii\SKiNS r.AiKi's, l'riiui])al 
 
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 CROCUS HILL GROCERY CO. 
 
 STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES 
 
 < >74 ii K AND .V \ 1^: N I J J^: 
 
 X. \V. I'hone Dale 329 and 923 T. S. I'hone 4129 
 
 nuv LAN PI IKK Fl RS 
 
 Made by the Pioneer Fur House of the Northwest. Mens Fur Garments of 
 
 all kinds. Ladies Furs in exclusive designs. Quality 
 
 guaranteeed by the makers. 
 
 LANPHER, SKINNER 6 CO. 
 
 sr. PAUL 
 
 aKO. R. HOI^MKS. 
 
 DlAMONlJS x^]\L> \\^\TC IIKS, 
 
 ST. PAUL, MINN. 
 
 415 K« > M !■; wr S'l" i< k kt 
 
 Scheffer & Rossum Go 
 
 INCORPORATED 
 JOBBER and MANUFACTURERS 
 
 LEATHER, SADDLERY, 
 SHOE FINDINGS 
 
 216-226 Kast Fourth Street, 
 
 ST. PA I I., :\nxx. 
 
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 One copy del, to Cat. Div. 
 
Smith & Bore's Furniture Go's New Store 
 
 The largest building in the City devoted exclusively for the sale of 
 
 FURNITURE, CARPETS. RUGS. DRAPERIES, 
 STOVES and FURNISHINGS 
 
 Cor. bth and Minnesota Streets ST. PAUL. MINNESOTA 
 
 Not Relics .IZ. Old Settlers 
 
 Established 1875 Incorporated 1900 
 
 409-411 Sibley St., ST. PAUL 
 
 (How appropriate we should be on Stbtey Street) 
 
 Our Popular "FULL VALUE" BRAND is only on the best ol ^ od» 
 Call on us and we will tell how to obtain Supplies of this brand. 
 
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