Ramsey County History – Fall 1991: “Who WAS Pigs Eye Parrant, Anyway?”
- Year
- 1991
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Creators
- Ronald M. Hubbs
- Topics
Who WAS Pigs Eye Parrant, Anyway?
Author: Ronald M. Hubbs
Everything that is known about St. Paul’s first settler, in less than two full pages. He was an illiterate, intemperate, ill-mannered and itinerant fur trader and whiskey seller who hung around Fort Snelling for a few years in the mid- to late 1830s. Exiled from the fort in 1838, he occupied two successive claims in what became St. Paul, and gave it its first informal name. By 1845 he was gone.
- Year
- 1991
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 3
- Creators
- Ronald M. Hubbs
- Topics