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| | Langlade, Charles Michel de on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | (shärl mēshĕl´ de), 1729-1800, pioneer in present-day Wisconsin and soldier, b. |
 | | Mackinac region, now in Mich.; son of a trader, Augustin Langlade, who established the settlement of Green Bay, Wis., and an Ottawa woman. |
 | | After the war he retired to his trading post at Green Bay, Wis.; he became known as the father of Wisconsin. |
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