Ramsey County History – Fall 2002: “Fur Trader, Banker, Danish Vice Consul: This Was the Borup of Borup’s Addition”

Fur Trader, Banker, Danish Vice Consul: This Was the Borup of Borup’s Addition
Author: Virginia Brainard Kunz

A short biographical sketch of Danish-born Charles William Wulff Borup, a man with a medical degree. He came to the Midwest in 1835 as an agent for the American Fur Company and moved to St. Paul in 1848, where he became involved in real estate. With his brother-in-law, Borup founded a bank. He married a Métis woman and raised a family of nine children. Borup became a wealthy man and supporter of the arts. He died of a heart attack in 1859.
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