Ouilmette, Antoine
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Antoine Ouilmette was a French Canadian fur trader married to Archange. For his part in persuading local Native Americans to sign the second Treaty of Prairie du Chien in 1829, the U.S. government awarded his wife Archange Chevalier Ouilmette (not Antoine) 1,280 acres of land in present-day Wilmette and Evanston.
Antoine Ouilmette and his wife Archange Chevalier Ouilmette attended the marriage of Dr. Alexander Wolcott, Jr. and Ellen Marion Wolcott in the Kinzie Mansion on Sunday, July 20, 1823.
