Mazar Jandreau Biography


	This biography appears on pages 882-883 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	MAZAR JANDREAU comes of staunch French lineage and was born in 
Canada on the 4th of July, 1853, being a son of Ferdinand and Estracia 
(Igout) Jandreau, whose five children are all living. When the subject 
was two years of age his parents came from Canada to the northwest, 
settling in Sioux City, Iowa, which was then a small village, and there 
continued to reside for five years. They then removed into Nebraska, 
which state continued to be their home for forty years and up to the 
time of their death, while they were numbered among the sterling 
pioneers of that commonwealth, where the father devoted his attention 
to farming and stock raising. Our subject secured his early educational 
discipline in the schools of Nebraska and while still a boy set forth 
to carve out an independent career. In 1871 he came to the territory of 
Dakota and secured a position as stage driver on the route between Fort 
Randall and Fort Thompson, being thus employed for a period of three 
years. In 1875 he was united in marriage to Miss Louise Redfield, a 
quarter blooded Indian of the Yankton Sioux extraction, her father 
having been one of the early Indian agents in the government employ in 
Dakota. After his death his widow became the wife of Lizzim Archambean, 
of whom specific mention is made on another page of this work. Mr. and 
Mrs. Jandreau became the parents of twelve children, of whom seven are 
living. The subject and his family jointly own five hundred and eight 
acres of land, the major portion of which is used for grazing purposes. 
Mr. Jandreau is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and he and 
his family are members of the Catholic church.  

	Mr. Jandreau has traveled extensively through the west, both in 
the early days and in later years. At the age of twelve years he left 
his father's home in Nebraska and made the trip across the plains and 
mountains to Denver, Colorado, having driven a freight team from 
Nebraska City to Denver, in 1866, while thereafter he followed 
freighting along the Missouri river for a number of years, having been 
frequently attacked by the Indians.