The Thelen and Margraf Family Tree - Individuals born before 1920

Henry Samuel BAIRD & Elizabeth Therese FISHER

Husband: Henry Samuel BAIRD (1 2 3)
   Born: 1800                      in Green Bay, Wisconsin (4)
Married: 12 AUG 1824               in Mackinac Island, Michigan (18 19 20)
   Died: 1876                      in Green Bay, Wisconsin (5)
 Father: 
 Mother: 
Spouses: 
   Wife: Elizabeth Therese FISHER (9 10 11)
   Born: 24 APR 1810               in Prairie du Chein, Wisconsin (12 13)
   Died: 05 NOV 1890               in Green Bay, Wisconsin (14)
 Father: Henry Munroe FISHER
 Mother: Marianne LASALIERE
Spouses:

Additional Information

Henry Samuel BAIRD:
Occupation: 1824, Lawyer in Green Bay, Wisconsin 6
Fact: Came from a family which had resided in Pennsylvania and Ohio 7
Fact: First professional lawyer in Wisconsin Territory 8

Medical Notes:
Suffered from ague "a malarial fever"

Elizabeth Therese FISHER:
Fact: Author of several papers about her early experiences on Mackinac Island and in Wisconsin Territory 15
Fact: Elizabeth had to learn to speak English when she moved to Green Bay 16
Baptised: 21 AUG 1821, Mackinac Island, Michigan (privately baptised earlier) 17

Notes:
A collection of papers written by Elizabeth Fisher about her early experiences on Mackinac Island and in Wisconsin Territory are published in the Green Bay State Gazette between Dec. 4, 1886 and Nov. 19, 1887. A summation of these stories is published in the historical journals entitled "Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin", Vol 14, which is included in the online library of Ancestry.com.

Information about Elizabeth, author of the recollections from pg. 16:
"The author of these reminiscences was born at Prairie du Chien, Wis., April 24, 1810, the daughter of Henry Munro Fisher, a prominent fur trader, of Scotch ancestry, in the employ of the American Fur Co. Her mother was Marienne Lasalière, a daughter of Madame Thérèse Schindler (wife of George Schindler) by her first husband, Pierre Lasalière. Madame Schindler's mother was Migisan (although called by the French, Marie), the daughter of an Ottawa chief, Kewinaquot (Returning Cloud). In 1824, when but fourteen years of age, Miss Fisher was married at Mackinac Island, where she had spent the greater portion of her youth, to Henry S. Baird, then a young Green Bay lawyer. Mr. and Mrs. Baird removed at once to Green Bay, where Mr. Baird (born in 1800) died in 1876, and Mrs. Baird, November 5, 1890. Mrs. Baird was a woman of charming personality and excellent education, proud of her trace of Indian blood, and had a wide acquaintance with the principal men and women of early Wisconsin. Having traveled and seen much, in pioneer days, and being gifted with a retentive memory which did not fail her until the last few weeks of her long life, she was a rare source of information to Western historical students. The present Editor frequently drew upon her memory, for data with which to annotate these Collections. To the columns of the Green Bay State Gazette, between Dec. 4, 1886, and Nov. 19, 1887, Mrs. Baird contributed a series of papers relating her early experiences on Mackinae Island and in Wisconsin Territory. The present article is a collection of such of these papers as referred to Mackinac,--condensed at a few points, and otherwise edited, in accordance with an agreement between Mrs. Baird and the Editor, the former contributing for this purpose some information which did not appear in the series as originally published in the State Gazette. It is hoped that space for the remainder of Mrs. Baird's Reminiscences--those relating especially to Wisconsin--may be found in Vol. XV of these Collections."

From Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 14:
"Mrs. Baird was a woman of charming personality and excellent education, proud of her trace of Indian blood, and had a wide acquaintance with the princial men and women of early Wisconsin."

From "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI. "Elizabeth Fisher had a dogsled, with a high back and sloping sides, in which she took long rides over the icy strait (near Mackinac Island)."

Footnotes

  1. Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 14, Reminiscences of Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Baird [460].
  2. Early Marriages of Mackinac County, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimackin/marriage.html [237].
  3. "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI [9].
  4. Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 14, Reminiscences of Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Baird [460].
  5. Ibid.
  6. Ibid.
  7. "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI [9].
  8. Ibid.
  9. Early Marriages of Mackinac County, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimackin/marriage.html [237].
  10. Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 14, Reminiscences of Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Baird [460], pg. 16.
  11. "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI [9].
  12. Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 14, Reminiscences of Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Baird [460].
  13. "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI [9].
  14. Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 14, Reminiscences of Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Baird [460].
  15. Ibid.
  16. "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI [9].
  17. Ibid.
  18. Midwest Pioneers: Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Volume 14, Reminiscences of Mrs. Elizabeth Therese Baird [460].
  19. Early Marriages of Mackinac County, http://www.rootsweb.com/~mimackin/marriage.html [237].
  20. "Therese Schindler" by John E. McDowell, Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 61, No. 2, Winter 1977-1978, pg. 125-143, State Historical Society of WI [9].

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