Charles Christopher Trowbridge was an explorer, politician, businessman, and ethnographer of Native American cultures who lived in Detroit during the 19th century. He was one of the first businessmen
Historic Charles Trowbridge House (1826), Detroit's oldest known structure
Henry Hastings Sibley
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Henry Hastings Sibley was a fur trader with the American Fur Company, the first Congressional representative for Minnesota Territory, the first governor of the state of Minnesota, and a United States
Judge Solomon Sibley, Henry's father
American Fur Company store in Mackinac
Trading license granted to Henry H. Sibley of the American Fur Company by Indian Agent Lawrence Taliaferro, September 30, 1835
Fort Snelling (1844)