Outagamie County, WI - Biography of Paul H. BEAULIEU of Kaukauna ?-1841

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SUBJECT: Biography of Paul H. BEAULIEU of Kaukauna ?-1841
SUBMITTER: W. David Samuelsen
EMAIL: dsam@wasatch.com
DATE SUBMITTED: Apr 16, 1999
SURNAMES: BEAULIEU
SOURCE: Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin; page 15, pub. 1898, The Post Publishing Co.


BIOGRAPHY:
PAUL H. BEAULIEU

Emigrated from Canada in 1812 on his way to the then unexplored regions of Lake Superior. He encountered
countless privations and hardships, peculiar to early pioneer life. A notable even was his
detention at Fort Malden and compulsion to serve in the British army for the space of four months, in which time he
participated in many skirmishes amongst which was the memorable battle of Lake Erie,
classed in history as Perry's Victory, after which he was allowed to continue his journey and after having successfully
followed the fur trade, for twenty-one years he started with his family (his wife,
one duaghter and one son) for Green Bay, where he arrived Aug. 16, 1834, residing there until the fall of 1835 he
moved to Kaukaloo or Kaukauna and settled on the Buchanan side of the river where he had previously purchased
lots 5, 6, 7 and 8 on Sec. 21, T. 21, R. 18, on which was situated a grist and saw mill. He resided here up to the time
of his death which occurred Oct. 15, 1841. The property then reverted to his only son and heir (daughter having
died), Bazil H. Beaulieu and more familiarly known as B. H. Beaulieu, who was almost continuously connected with
the affairs of Brown and afterwards Outagamie county until 1876 when he sold out and removed to White Earth,
Becker county, Minn., where he resided until his death a few years ago. B. H. Beauliue has held satisfactorily the
offices of justice of the peace, assessor, clerk and supervisor, which latter office he held fourteen years, during which
he introduced to the board a bill for the division of the then town of Kaukauna,
setting off all that part lying south and east of Fox river and organizing the present town of Buchanan. Mr. Beaulieu
raised a large family of children, but I am unable to give their names, the above sketch of the Beaulieu family was
extracted from a letter of greeting sent from White Earth, Minn., by Theo. H. Beaulieu, a son of H. B. Beauliue, to
the Outagamie County Pioneer Association to be read at
their annual festival in 1885.