Bio of Buisson, Joseph Sr. (b.1797) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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BUISSON: Joseph Sr., Joseph Jr., Henry, Cyprian 
Joseph Buisson, Sr., Indian trader and voyager, established a trading post 
at Wabasha as early as 1832. He married the daughter of Mr. Duncan Graham, 
Nancy Lucy Graham, in 1832, and permanently located at Wabasha a few years 
later. Mr. Buisson was born in Montreal in 1797, and at the time of his 
location here was engaged in carrying goods from St. Louis to different 
trading posts on the Upper Mississippi. For a number of years after his 
location here he was engaged in the Indian trade and farming. He was one 
of the original proprietors and owned what is known as Lot No. 4. They had 
seven children, six of whom are still living. Their names are Harriet 
Lariviere, Henry, Mary Louise, Antoine, Joseph, Cyprian and Mary Jane. 
Henry, Joseph and Cyprian still reside in Wabasha and are engaged in 
steamboating, all in the capacity of master and pilot. They run the best 
class of raftboats on the river between Stillwater and St. Louis. 

     Joseph Buisson Jr. married Mary Elizabeth Stevens, November 22, 1872. 
They have four children. The names of those living are Clara Louise, 
Angeline, Ethel and Daniel Shaw. 
     Henry Buisson married Emily Lariviere. They have had two children, 
one of whom is dead, and the other, Hattie, is married. 
     Cyprian Buisson married Libbie Stone, daughter of Philo Stone. 

     The elder Joseph Busisson died in 1857, and was buried on the summit 
of Quarry Hill, just west of the city. His widow, and mother of the family 
noted, is at this writing seventy-five years of age and enjoying good 
health, and is a resident of Fort Totten, Dakota. 
      
  The following extract from the Wabasha "Journal" of July, 1858, 
cannot but prove interesting: Joseph Buisson, now deceased, settled at 
Wabasha in August, 1839. He was born at Prairie Madeleine, Lower Canada, 
about fifteen miles above Montreal; he was of French parentage. In the 
many conversations I have had with him, I learned much of this country. He 
came to Minnesota at the age of seventeen, and was in the employ of the 
American Fur Company for eight years in succession. A man of strong 
natural sense, but uneducated; and it will readily be supposed the society 
in a country without the border of civilization was not favorable to the 
formation of correct habits in a young man of the ardent temperament of 
Monsieur Buisson. He was possessed of an iron constitution; bold, 
courageous, quick in his resentments, and ready to conciliate in 
sincerity. He was social to a great degree, and as a neighbor ever ready 
to oblige; hospitable to an extent that was injurious to his prosperity, 
as profligate and undeserving shared equally with their betters. The 
credit of inviting emigration on the Half-breed Tract, and assisting to 
shelter the new comers, is well known to many of the early settlers, and 
is vouched for by the writer. Himself, in connection with Oliver Cratte, 
were the original proprietors of the town. His decease happened on the 
10th day of October last - the day of our annual election - at the age of 
fifty-three years. 
*Since the writing of the above the remains of Joseph Buisson, Sr., 
have been removed by his sons, and reinterred January 17, 1884, in the 
Riverside cemetery.