Ramsey County History – Winter 1993: “Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve, Daughter of a Frontier Regiment—1819”
- Year
- 1993
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Creators
- Ronald M. Hubbs
- Topics
Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve, Daughter of a Frontier Regiment—1819
Author: Ronald M. Hubbs
Charlotte Clark was born in Prairie du Chien in 1819 as her family made their way to her father’s posting at still-to-be-built Fort Snelling. As an adult, she married another soldier, who served in the Dakota War of 1862 and the Civil War; they settled in St. Paul, then Minneapolis, where Van Cleve Park is named for her husband. Late in life she wrote a memoir, described here.
- Year
- 1993
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 4
- Creators
- Ronald M. Hubbs
- Topics