Jean-Baptiste Toupin

Jean Babtiste1 Toupin was born 1792 in Maskinonge Canada and died 14 Sep 1862 in St Louis, Marion, OR. 

• parents: Alexis Toupin & Marie Anne LaCroix dit Lefebre

Married

1. Marie Laguisvoise 'Dorion' 19 Jul 1841 in Mission of the Wallamette  She was born 1786 in St Louis Terr, MO and died 05 Sep 1850 in St Louis, Marion, OR. 
2. Seraphine Vivier Unknown in Cap-de-la Madeleine, Canada 

Notes

• Jean Baptiste-Toupin was the third husband of Madame Dorion; he outlived her by twelve years.  Besides his children Francois and Marie Anne, he seems to have had other children by another woman, as Jean Toupin, Jr., was godfather to a relative in 1871.  According to one historian, Toupin had been an interpreter at Fort Nex Perce since 1821, a man of Work's crew, "quarrelsome, unreliable".  He was a messenger "back and forth" following the Whitman massacre.

Links

• http://museum.bmi.net/MARIE%20DORION%20PEOPLE/jean_babtiste_toupin.htm
• Descendants of Jean Babtiste Toupin, Courtesy of Frazier Farmstead Museum