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Vol. 37 – July 2010 – June 2011 Trail Breakers – Vol. 37, July 2010 to June 2011 Clark County Genealogical Society, Vancouver, Washington TRAIL BREAKERS Vol. 37 (1 issue - 2010-2011) is the Clark County Genealogical Society (CCGS) is an publication of the Clark County educational service organization dedicated to the Genealogical Society, P.O. Box collection and publication of the heritage of Clark 5249, Vancouver, WA 98668-5249. Issues are being published annually if County. CCGS offers assistance to genealogical an editor is available. Articles from this publication are indexed in researchers and family historians. PERSI. TRAIL BREAKERS’ EDITOR: Membership chair is Denni Hamilton- GENERAL MEETINGS: Anyone Jane Germann Levonian: [email protected]. interested in family research is welcome to attend. The meetings are The Editor accepts donations of th DUES: $30.00 per year for an held on the 4 Tuesday* at the: articles, biographies, fill-ins, how-to's, etc. Material being submitted may be individual; $40.00 for joint members sent by e-mail to germann@wa- (two people, only one publication CCGS Library Annex, net.com in RTF format or left in the mailing). Life membership is 715 Grand Blvd, Vancouver, WA. editor's file at the CCGS Library. If a $650.00; joint life is $800.00. Wheelchair accessible. reprint is being turned in, please Contributing patron is $50.00 or more include source information. per year (no mailings). Dues are for Meetings are 10-Noon during one year from date paid. Check your October, November, January, While the editor will take reasonable mailing label to see when your February and March and 7-9 pm effort to review presented material, neither CCGS nor editor of the Trail membership expires. during April, May, June and Breakers accept responsibility for September. Check our website to errors of fact or judgment in the verify time of meetings. *No general material submitted to and printed in CCGS EXECUTIVE BOARD: meetings in July, August, or the Trail Breakers. When errors are December. brought to our attention, efforts will President: Look for information concerning our be made to correct them. Spring Seminar and/or Fall Seminar Stephen Cornick in our newsletter or on our website. CCGS will gladly exchange our periodicals (Trail Breakers with or Co-Vice Presidents: RESEARCH LIBRARY: without monthly Newsletter) with Dolly Merrick other societies on a reciprocal basis. The library is located at 717 Grand Blvd., Vancouver. Hours are MEDIA REVIEW: CCGS invites Recording Secretary: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 12:00 donations of genealogical books and to be apponted to 6:00 p.m.; Friday 10:00 a.m.-3:00 rd software for review. Send to CCGS p.m; 2nd and 3 Saturdays 10:00 Review Editor, P.O. Box 5249, p.m.to 3:00 p.m.; except holidays. Vancouver, WA 98668-5249 Treasurer: Larry Germann There is a $3.00 suggested donation for non-members. INTERNET WEB SITE: E-mail: [email protected] http//www.ccgs-wa.org. Asst. Secretary-Treasurer: Library phone: (360) 750-5688 See information about our Chat Eric Jordahl Room, Education Classes, Library RESEARCH REQUESTS: holdings, Seminars, and other items of Immediate Past President: Research is limited to those books interest. Garry Lucas published by CCGS for a nominal fee of $10.00 (includes up to 10 free MEMBERSHIP: Membership is copies) for one hour's research. A list open to anyone interested in the BOARD MEETINGS: Meetings are of the society’s publications can be collection and preservation of family held at the CCGS Library Annex on found on our web site. A list of area and regional history. It includes a the 2nd Monday. All members are researchers is available upon request. subscription to the Trail Breakers, a welcome to attend. See monthly Address requests to the attention of nearly monthly Newsletter, a meeting schedule under General Alice Allen - Research, CCGS, PO Directory, use of the CCGS library Meetings. Box 5249, Vancouver, WA 98668- without a fee and checkout privileges 5249 or e-mail directly to Alice: at the CCGS Library. [email protected]. Trail Breakers – Vol. 37, July 2010 to June 2011 Clark County Genealogical Society, Vancouver, Washington Table of Contents 2 Marie Aoise Laguvoise, known as Marie Dorion by CCGS Member Jeanine Bailiff 3 Esther Clark Short by CCGS member Carol Clark 4 Breaking Down a Brick Wall to Confirm a Short-Bolon Connection by Lethene Parks 9 Map of Short-Bolon Land 10 William Mc Bean – Chief Trader for Hudson’s Bay Company by Marjorie Rundall Campbell and Jane Germann 14 Lineage of William McBean charted by George T. Brown 16 Charles Donald McBean & Amelia Frazier by Marjorie Rundall Campbell 18 Oregon Historical Quarterly Adds Interest to Story Marjorie Rundall Campbell 21 McBean DLC Contains Unique Documents abstracted by Jane Germann 23 The Vancouver Independent abstracted abstracted by Jane Germann 37 Washington State DLCs can be found at the Oregon State Archives 38 Abstraction of The Ridgefield Reflector abstracted by Martha Hennagin Cieglo 59 Puget Sound Native Research . 60 Index of the Atlas of Clark County Washington 1928 by several volunteers 70 Defination of Indenture 93 First Vancouver Firemen 94 Honoring our founding members Congratulations to our new officers! President – Steve Cornick Co-Vice Presidents – Dolly Merrick Secretary – to be appointed Treasurer – Larry Germann Assistant Sec. Treas. – Eric Jordahl 1 Trail Breakers – Vol. 37, July 2010 to June 2011 Clark County Genealogical Society, Vancouver, Washington Marie Aoise Laguvoise, known as Marie Dorion by CCGS Member Jeanine Bailiff My granddaughter Kelsy Taylor Benton is the 9th generation of an Indian lady that is becoming more famous by the day, more so than Sacajawea, whom Marie met on the way. It started with Pierre Dorion, an interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1739-1810), when he married Holy Rainbow. Pierre was sent back to take care of other business and was not considered part of the Lewis-Clark Expedition. A son, Pierre Dorion, married Marie Aoise Laguvoise (different interpretations of last name). Marie was a Yankton Sioux- Ioway Indian of Oklahoma. Pierre and Marie joined "The Hunt-Wilson Expedition." Marie was the only woman. Along the way to the west Marie was out looking for berries in Oregon in the winter. Everyone in the Expedition was massacred. This left Marie with two small children Marie Aoise Laguvoise Dorion and a horse. She killed the horse for shelter and food. After two months, Marie had with permission of ??? to look for help [email protected] Marie married again, this time to Louis Joseph Venier. The story (only a story) is that one of her two boys did not like Louis and killed him. This was a strange child. He ran off in later years and was never per heardp from again. Marie had many relatives in the west, especially in Oregon and Washington. Jean Baptiste Toupin and Marie settled in Oregon where she became well know. When she died, she was buried around or under the St. Louis Catholic Church in Gervais, Oregon. This was unheard of, burying Indians in the Catholic Church. There is a dedication sign in the church. There are several roadside Markers and a room named after her in Eastern Oregon University. The computer has many, many stories about her. Jane Kirkpatrick, the author, wrote three novels about Marie: "A Name of Her Own," "Every Fixed Star," and "Hold Tight the Thread." Several members of the family have met with Jane more than once, [the] last being at a dedication for Marie at a new Kiosk in Keizer, Oregon. It is near the shopping center in a nice area with a fountain. This summer there will be another dedication in Astoria, Oregon. There are also books called "More Than Petticoats" about pioneer women in several states where a story of Marie is written. Starting with Kelsy's grandmother on her father's side: Winifred Beryl Quigley, born Jan. 12, 1923 Cathlamet, WA, married Herbert A. Benton born Sept. 8 1921. Leonard Quigley married Della Mae Souvigny who was born Nov. 9, 1885 Cathlamet, WA. Francoise Xavier Souvigny, born Oct. 13, 1850 to Rose Francis LaFramboise, born Nov 25, 1869, died Aug 2, 1951, Mulnomah, Oregon. Francoise LaFramboise, born Nov 2 1811 married to Denise Marie Dorion born 1834 Ft. Walla Walla and died 13 Sept 1874. Jean Baptiste Dorion, born 1809 Missouri Territory, married to Josette Dorion line: Grandaughter Kelsy Benton, Richard Benton Cayuse born 1817 Ft. Walla Walla; (father), Patricia Mausen (aunt); author Jane Kirkpatrick, Venier Pierre Dorion born 1756 Montreal, Quebec married to Marie Aoise line: Jennifer Gobin Bailes, her father Rick Kelsey; Laguvoise who was born 1786 Missouri ,Indian Territory; Marie at St. Louis Catholic Church, Gervais, Oregon. died Sept. 6 1850 St. Louis Parish, Oregon Territory) Pierre Dorion born 1739 in Montreal, Quebec, and died 1810 in Fort Osage, Missouri, married to Holy Rainbow. LaFramboise Ave. that runs alongside Fruit Valley School is named after their family. The LaFramsoise’s lived by Vancouver Lake in the early years; they are on a county map..I was in contact by e-mail with a Leonard Dorion in Montreal before he died and he had researched around 5000 Dorions. Among things that Jennine has volunteered for at CCGS, she is probably most known for her leadership in leading field trips to do research in Salt Lake City. 2 Trail Breakers – Vol. 37, July 2010 to June 2011 Clark County Genealogical Society, Vancouver, Washington ESTHER CLARK SHORT On the walking map of the Old City Cemetery which was, created by our genealogy society, there are snapshots of some of the people buried in the cemetery.