Charles MAPPES

1826 - 1900  (73 years)

• Name	Charles MAPPES
  Birth	14 Aug 1826	Prussia, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	10 Feb 1900	Lafayette Co., WI
  Person ID	I233	Main

  
  

  Family	Minnie FAUST,   b. Hesse, Germany
  Marriage	Abt 1855	Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
  Children	+ 1. Louis MAPPES,   b. 10 May 1854, Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN
  Family ID	F105	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Marriage - Abt 1855 - Terre Haute, Vigo Co., IN Death - 10 Feb 1900 - Lafayette Co., WI  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Went to Mexico in 1826 and served seven months in the war. He then went with General Haney to Florida aand participated in the war there. In the fall of 1848 he went to California and there he made the aquaintance of General Sutton, which rippened into a friendship by 1851. He came to Indianapolis and there kept a Hotel. In 1855 he removed to Terre Haute, Ind., and kept a Hotel until 1860 when he moved to Dubuque, IA, and there also kept a Hotel. in 1862 he came to Mineral Point, WI. The following year he went to Idaho and made the first discovery of gold. He organized a company there known as the Idaho Rangers, and was elected Cornel. He has a deed for 8200 feet of quartz ledges and has been offered $40,000.00 for 600 feet of it. He, along with his son Louis, surveyed and layed the town of Belmont, WI, where he built, owns and operates the St. Charles Hotel which was first building in that town.