Native American Chief, community leader, preserver of Native traditions, philanthropist, and businesswoman of the Mackinaw area during the nineteenth century. Under her leadership, the Treaty of Detroit was negotiated the 1855, which kept the Odawa Tribe in their homelands, restored some of their lost hunting and fishing rights, and obtained monetary compensation.
wife of Edward, died at age 76 years.
On same plot with John McGrath, Sarah B. Durfee, Sophia & Mary Biddle.
According to a book published in 2021 Agatha's maiden name was Sarrasin. Please confirm or propose otherwise. (I need to research this further)
Suggested edit: Agatha was born on Mackinac Island sometime around 1798. She was the daughter of Marie LeFevre de LaVigne, an Odawa-Ojibway woman, and a fur trader with the surname "LaVigne." At the age of seven, Agatha was adopted by a French fur trader named Joseph Bailly who married her mother.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Agatha+Biddle%3A+Trader%2C+Wife%2C+and+Anishinaabe+Chief.-a0521291016
Contributor: H Mainville (48010433)
Native American Chief, community leader, preserver of Native traditions, philanthropist, and businesswoman of the Mackinaw area during the nineteenth century. Under her leadership, the Treaty of Detroit was negotiated the 1855, which kept the Odawa Tribe in their homelands, restored some of their lost hunting and fishing rights, and obtained monetary compensation.
wife of Edward, died at age 76 years.
On same plot with John McGrath, Sarah B. Durfee, Sophia & Mary Biddle.
According to a book published in 2021 Agatha's maiden name was Sarrasin. Please confirm or propose otherwise. (I need to research this further)
Suggested edit: Agatha was born on Mackinac Island sometime around 1798. She was the daughter of Marie LeFevre de LaVigne, an Odawa-Ojibway woman, and a fur trader with the surname "LaVigne." At the age of seven, Agatha was adopted by a French fur trader named Joseph Bailly who married her mother.
https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Agatha+Biddle%3A+Trader%2C+Wife%2C+and+Anishinaabe+Chief.-a0521291016
Contributor: H Mainville (48010433)
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