Mclean County ND Archives Biographies.....Chardon, Francois 
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Author: Larpenteur

CHARDON, FRANCOIS A.

He was a clerk for the American Fur Company at Fort Union at the time Maximilian
visited it in 1833. He was located at Fort Clark in 1837, at the time of the
small pox scourge. He built Fort Jackson for McKenzie in 1833, and was placed in
charge of the post.

From:  Early Western Travels, XXIII., 188, note. Also XXIV., 29 and note. 

In charge of Fort McKenzie in 1842 when he massacred some Blackfeet Indians
there. On April 1st, 1848, he was found by Palliser in charge of Fort Berthold.
He died there the same year.
From:  Larpenteur, I., 137, note.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

COLLECTIONS OF THE State Historical Society OF NORTH DAKOTA
VOL. I

BEING FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA TO THE
GOVERNOR OF NORTH DAKOTA FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1906.

BISMARCK, N. D.
TRIBUNE, STATE PRINTERS AND BINDERS 
1906


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