Antoine janis biography

Antoine Janis (March 26, 1824–1890) was a.
Antoine Janis was a 19th-century French-American fur trader and the first white homesteader in Larimer County, Colorado, in the United States.
3597 Galway Dr, Laporte, CO. Born in Missouri to a French father and a mulatto mother, Antoine Janis (1824-1890) traveled on trading caravans with his father.

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3597 Galway Dr, Laporte, CO

Born in Missouri to a French father and a mulatto mother, Antoine Janis (1824-1890) traveled on trading caravans with his father. He journeyed west on his own in 1844 and worked as a scout and interpreter at Fort Laramie. He married First Elk Woman of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. On the return from one trip, he passed through the Cache la Poudre Valley and remembered what he called “the loveliest spot on earth.” At the time, it was not open to settlement, but Janis staked out a claim with plans to return once the area was free to be homesteaded. Janis settled among 150 Arapaho lodges and is credited with being the first Euro-American settler in Larimer County. He later constructed a cabin and founded the town of Colona, now known as Laporte. His cabin can be viewed at the Heritage Courtyard at Matthews St. and Olive St. in Fort Collins. This marker, erected by the Daughter’s of the American Revolution in 1974, marks the original location of the Janis cabin. Behind the marker is the open area where the original Camp Collins was located.

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Joseph Antoine Janis

When Joseph Antoine Janis was born on 26 March 1824, in St. Charles, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States, his father, Antoine Janis, was 28 and his mother, Marguerite Thibault, was 26. He married Mary Hehaka Wanzi First Elk Woman in July 1884, in Fort Laramie, Laramie, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 11 daughters. He lived in Laporte, Larimer, Colorado, United States in 1878 and Sheridan, Nebraska, United States in 1885. In 1857, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as business owner-grocery and saloon in Laporte, Larimer, Colorado, United States. He died on 10 April 1889, in Pine Ridge, Shannon, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Pine Ridge, Shannon, South Dakota, United States.

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This short article is a side-track from purely St. Charles County Historical Society’s Heritage articles. I published it in the Frenchtown Historical Society and Research Center’s Newsletter…which I edited for about 2 years (2008-2010). I just thought it showed another side to the area…which was predominantly French according to the names on the map which I show just a portion of. It can be seen at the SCCHS Archives.

Antoine Janis came to Petite Cotes from the French colony of Ste. Genevieve in the late 1700’s pursuing the love of his life. Unfortunately, that love was illegal because the young woman was a mulatto. And, she was a slave, probably the personal slave of Marie Louise Bauvais, Antoine’s cousin. Upper Louisiana and the San Carlos du Misury District and the outpost at Petite Cotes were under Spanish rule at the time. Spanish Governor Carondelet in New Orleans was briefed on the alliance and was quite upset about it and sent the following letter to Lt. Governor Trudeau in St. Louis on a day in January 1796. (1)

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