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Author: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

Capt. Joseph V. Dusseau, whose home has been Joliet since childhood, is better 

known as Joseph Duso, the latter style of spelling having been adopted by his 

older brother, Narcisse, at the time that their father went to California; and 

since then, as everyone has persisted in writing the name by it abbreviated 

form, the latter has been used instead of the original and correct spelling.  

His father, Augustus, a son of Victor Dusseau, was born in Canada, a descendant 

of early French settlers of that country.  In the fall of 1846 he brought the 

family via the lakes to Chicago, thence by teams to Aurora, Ill., and in the 

spring of 1847 began farming near that town.  In 1854 he traveled across the 

plains to California, where he remained for four and one-half years, and on his 

return engaged in farming in Minnesota, later settling in St. Anthony, that 

state.  In 1863 he came to Joliet, where he died three years later.  He married 

Olive Lanou, daughter of a farmer and descendant of an old French-Canadian 

family.  She was born in Canada and died there, while on a visit to relatives, 

in 1890.  Of her seven children all but two are still living.  The oldest son, 

Narcisse, who was a soldier in a Missouri regiment during the Civil war, died 

in Colorado.  Two sons and a daughter live in Joliet, one daughter in Canada 

and another in Minnesota.  The next to the eldest of the family, Joseph V., was 

born at St. John’s, Canada, July 8, 1844.  In the fall of 1851 he came with his 

mother and father to Joliet.  He was only ten years of age when he began to 

earn his livelihood by working as a driver on the canal between LaSalle and 

Chicago.  After some seven years as driver he began steering.  In 1869 he 

became master of the “E. Burnham,” and, after two years, master of another 

boat, which he bought in 1873 and operated until 1882, when he sold it.  Later 

he had charge of a stone boat for seven years and then ran another stone boat 

for four and one-half years, after which he ran steamboats.  The exposure in 

all kinds of weather, which his business had rendered necessary, brought on 

rheumatism, and for two years he was unable to engage in any work.  In August, 

1897, he resumed work on a steamboat, and this he has since operated, engaged 

in transporting flour and wheat to and from Chicago for Norton & Co.  He has 

been on the canal since 1854 and is probably the oldest canal man in Joliet.

In Chicago, December 27, 1874 Captain Dussean married Miss Louise Civalier, who 

was born in Montreal and came to Joliet at fourteen years of age.  Eight 

children were born of their marriage, namely: Joseph and Olive, who died at the 

ages of fourteen and ten months respectively; Florence; Louise; Estella; 

William, who was only one month old at death; George; and Edna, who died in 

1897, at six years of age.  Joseph Civalier, father of Mrs. Dusseau, was born 

in Canada, son of Laurent Civalier and member of a French-Canadian family.  He 

became a horse dealer and veterinary surgeon.  In 1863 he removed to the Lake 

Superior region, but the next year came to Joliet, and in 1868 settled in 

Chicago, where he now resides, at seventy-five years.  He married Lucy 

Malboeuf, who was born in Montreal and died in Chicago; she was a daughter of 

Lucien Malboeuf, a Canadian and by trade a tanner.  In religion Captain Dusseau 

and his wife are members of St. Patrick’s Roman 

Catholic Church.  Politically he has always been a stanch Republican and my be 

counted upon to cast his vote in support of party principles.

Additional comments:
Genealogical and Biographical Record of Will County Illinois Containing 
Biographies of Well Known Citizens of the Past and Present, Biographical 
Publishing Company, Chicago, 1900


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