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A History of the Villaume Family and the Company They Built — Page 4 “A Great Experience” Villaume Builds Gliders in World War II Page 22 Winter 2007 Volume 41, Number 4 “If It Can Be Manufactured from Wood, We Can Make It” A History of the Villaume Family and the Company They Built — Page 4 Eugene Villaume. Portrait by Nicholas Brewer (1857–1949), one of America’s finest portrait artists. Minnesota-born, Brewer trained in New York and later moved back to St. Paul. He painted presidents and official portraits of governors from Minnesota and ten other states. Brewer also painted portraits of a number of prominent Minnesotans, including Theodore Hamm, Ignatius Donnelly, George Dayton, and Archbishop John Ireland. Photo courtesy of Nick Linsmayer and Villaume Industries. low.pdf 1 3/23/07 8:24:03 AM RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY Executive Director RAMSEY COUNTY Priscilla Farnham Founding Editor (1964–2006) Virginia Brainard Kunz Editor Hıstory John M. Lindley Volume 41, Number 4 Winter 2007 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY the mission statement of the ramsey county historical society BOARD OF DIRECTORS adopted by the board of directors in July 2003: Howard Guthmann Chair The Ramsey County Historical Society shall discover, collect, W. Andrew Boss preserve and interpret the history of the county for the general public, President recreate the historical context in which we live and work, and make Judith Frost Lewis First Vice President available the historical resources of the county. The Society’s major Paul A. Verret responsibility is its stewardship over this history. Second Vice President Joan Higinbotham Secretary C O N T E N T S J. Scott Hutton Treasurer Thomas H. Boyd, Norlin Boyum, Julie 3 Letters Brady, Carolyn J. Brusseau, Anne Cowie, 4“If It Can Be Manufactured From Wood, We Can Make It” Nancy Randall Dana, Charlton Dietz, Joanne A. Englund, Robert F. Garland, John A History of the Villaume Family Holman, George A. Mairs, Laurie Murphy, and the Company They Built Richard H. Nicholson, Marla Ordway, Sally D. Patterson, Marvin J. Pertzik, Jay Steven C. Trimble Pfaender, Ralph Thrane, David Thune, Richard Wilhoit. 22 “A Great Experience” Richard T. Murphy Sr. Villaume Builds Gliders in World War II Director Emeritus John M. Lindley EDITORIAL BOARD 28 An Encounter at Kaposia Anne Cowie, chair, James B. Bell, John Diers, Thomas H. Boyd, Tom Kelley, Laurie Murphy, The Bishop and the Chief Richard H. Nicholson, Paul D. Nelson, Jay Leo J. Harris Pfaender, David Riehle, G. Richard Slade, Steve Trimble, Mary Lethert Wingerd. 33 Book Reviews HONORARY ADVISORY BOARD Publication of Ramsey County History is supported in part by a gift from Olivia I. Dodge, William Fallon, William Finney, Robert S. Hess, George Latimer, Clara M. Claussen and Frieda H. Claussen in memory of Henry H. Cowie Jr. Joseph S. Micallef, Robert Mirick, Marvin and by a contribution from the late Reuel D. Harmon J. Pertzik, James Reagan, Rosalie E. Wahl, Donald D. Wozniak. RAMSEY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS A Message from the Editorial Board Commissioner Tony Bennett, chair Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt Commissioner Toni Carter his issue of Ramsey County History showcases the significant history of Villaume Industries, Commissioner Rafael Ortega formerly the Villaume Box and Lumber Company, which is celebrating 125 years as a con- Commissioner Janice Rettman T Commissioner Jan Parker tinuously operated family owned business. Steve Trimble tells the fascinating story of this com- Commissioner Jim McDonough pany, which Eugene Villaume, a French immigrant, started in 1882. The firm initially specialized David Twa, manager, Ramsey County in making commercial boxes and installing fine interior woodwork, such as can still be seen in the art deco interior furnishing of the St. Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse. Dur- Ramsey County History is published quarterly ing World War II, as John Lindley explores in a separate article, the Villaume Company helped by the Ramsey County Historical Society, 323 Landmark Center, 75 W. Fifth Street, St. defeat the Axis enemy by building glider floors and wings for the Army Air Forces. After the war, Paul, Minn. 55102 (651-222-0701). Printed in Villaume diversified into manufacturing roof trusses and custom wood packaging. The Winter U.S.A. Copyright 2007, Ramsey County His- issue concludes with a short article by Leo J. Harris about a little-known meeting in 1839 at torical Society. ISSN Number 0485-9758. All Kaposia (now South St. Paul) between Bishop Mathias Loras and Dakota leader Big Thunder. rights reserved. No part of this publication The Society is grateful to Villaume Industries and its president, Nick Linsmayer, for giving may be reprinted or otherwise reproduced without written permission from the pub- authors Steve Trimble and John Lindley access to the company archives, providing photos, and lisher. The Society assumes no responsibility arranging for interviews with individuals who could tell the Villaume story based on their own for statements made by contributors. Fax 651- experiences with the company. We hope that other local businesses will follow the example of 223-8539; e-mail address [email protected].; Villaume and share their story with us. web site address www.rchs.com Anne Cowie, Chair, Editorial Board 2 RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORY low.pdf 2 3/23/07 8:24:04 AM An Encounter at Kaposia The Bishop and the Chief Leo J. Harris his short article is a snapshot in time and place of two men who met in terror during the French revolution. He July 1839 at Kaposia, a Sioux (Dakota) Indian village located in what was ordained a priest in 1815 in France. was then Iowa Territory. They were never to meet again. There are many Recruited to serve in the United States, T he was first sent to Mobile, Alabama, such encounters in history that, upon reflection, do not amount to much. Yet, where he became Vicar General of the the simple facts of the encounter are of interest. There are also related circum- Cathedral Church of Mobile, and he stances and events surrounding the meeting that provide a historic insight into founded, and served between 1830 and the times.1 1832, as the first president of Spring Hill College. Loras was then called to serve The Place seen in the morals and constitutions of these, in a newly created, very large, Midwest- Early settlers and traders traveled as amongst all other Indians who live along ern diocese whose area had been re- through Kaposia2 on their way to Fort the frontiers, in the vicinity of our settle- cently opened to white settlers. He was Snelling, missionaries were active ments, where whiskey is sold to them, and consecrated Bishop of Dubuque on De- there, and the Sioux people3 who oc- the small-pox and other diseases are intro- cember 10, 1837. Bishop Loras died on cupied it were passing through a period duced to shorten their lives.5 February 28, 1858. of cultural changes and upheavals. This The diocese of Dubuque, established turmoil within the Indian community The Chief on July 28, 1837, reached from the north- at Kaposia subsequently led to their re- Big Thunder (Wakoyantanke), also ern line of Missouri to the boundary of location elsewhere after the Treaty of known as Little Crow III (1765–1845), British North America, and westward Mendota in 1851 and then, in 1862, to was the chief of the Kaposia band of from the Mississippi River to the Mis- war with the settlers. Historians differ Sioux for many years. He was described souri River. It included what is now the about the various locations of Kaposia as a man below common size but brawny state of Iowa, most of Minnesota, and village prior to 1837, the sites of which and well proportioned. Big Thunder was large portions of the Dakotas. At the time seemed to have depended upon success one of the Sioux chiefs who journeyed of its establishment there were only three or failure in hunting and timber deple- to Washington in September of 1837 for chapels in the entire diocese and a solitary tion. After that date, however, Kaposia treaty negotiations. These negotiations Dominican priest, Samuel Mazzuchelli, moved to a site twenty miles below the led to the treaty sale of some five mil- who ministered to a scattered population Falls of St. Anthony, in what is now lion acres of land that the Mdewakanton of less than 3,000 of the faithful. South St. Paul, on the west bank of the held east of the Mississippi River. Big Prior to his consecration Loras sought 4 Mississippi River. Thunder died accidentally, in the fall of information from Bishop Joseph Rosati of Kaposia was one of five Mdewakanton 1845, when his gun discharged while he St. Louis about his new diocese, including Sioux villages along the Minnesota and attempted to prevent it from falling from the nationalities of its inhabitants, whether Mississippi Rivers, and some 400 per- a wagon. Irish, American, French, or “Savage.” He sons resided there. Other villages, each asked whether there were any Catholic In- headed by a chief, were located at Waba- The Bishop dians, and did they speak English?6 sha (below Lake Pepin), at Red Wing, at Although Father Hennepin’s journey The chief interest of Loras was said to Black Dog, and at Shakopee. through the lands of the Sioux and be the “hope of converting the Red man.” George Catlin, the noted artist and Chippewa (Ojibwe) has been widely Father Thebaud, S. J., wrote in 1843 that, engraver, commented upon the Sioux publicized, and the names of Archbishop “the Bishop of Dubuque has more Indi- peoples residing in this area: Ireland, Bishop Cretin, and other Roman ans under his jurisdiction than any other The Sioux in these parts, who are out of Catholic leaders are likewise known, the prelate in North America, next to the reach of the beavers and buffaloes, are poor name and writings of the first Catholic Bishop of St.
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