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Paul Clarence Metty

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By Bertie Brillhart - December 17, 2008

Paul was born 17 May 1884 at Louisville, Kansas the fifth child of Solomon and Margaret Metty. In later life he spelled his surname as Metta.

Paul Clarence Metta

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Questions Re: Richard Metty (Felix, Joseph, Jaques)

By Ellen Rose - July 08, 2010

I have information from Geneology of the French Families of the Detroit River Region 1701-1936, Vol. II of Richard Metty's marriage to Victoria Bissonet; I have her death as occuring prior to 1856 and that his 2nd marriage was to Rachel Knaggs. Other research states Victoire Thibeaut, married Richard on 3 Oct. 1849 and died in 1855. His death notices state he was an upstanding citizen, so I don't think polygamy was happening (although who knows, stranger things have happened). So, does anyone know when Victoria Bissonet died, who Victoria Thibeaut was, and was Rachel Knaggs, then, Richard's 2nd or third wife? Or is this a mystery worth exploring??

Frederic Hubert & Eugenie Archambault Metty

By Cleo Francis Metty - March 01, 2007

These are the parents of Arthur Prudence Metty. Frederic was born 20 April 1844 in the area commonly referred to as Frenchtown, Monroe County, Michigan. By 1865 he had migrated to Kankakee, Illinois where on 28 November of that year he married Eugenie Archambault. The 1876 Directory for Kankakee lists him as living on Washington Avenue and employed as a clerk. Seven of their eight children were born in Kankakee. In late 1884 or early 1885 they migrated to Minnesota where their eighth child was born on 18 August 1885 at Ghent, Lyon County. They lived in the Currie, MN community for about 25 years and then moved to Granum, Alberta, Canada where Eugenie died on 10 May 1918. She was born in 1844 in Montreal, Canada. Frederic died circa 10 December 1919 in Granum and that is where they are both buried.

By Cleo Francis Metty - November 23, 2020

I recently posted the marriage license of Arthur Metty and Bertha Wickman. Now I will turn back the pages of history to 1875. Arthur was born on 14 November of that year in Kankakee, Illinois. The family was living on Washington Avenue between Court and Merchants Street. In the 1880 census the family is shown living in Bourbonnais, Illinois. By 1884, the family had removed to Lyon County Minnesota along with a number of other families from Kankakee County, Illinois. In June 1884, Arthur’s father purchased a quarter section of land in Murray Township, Murray County, Minnesota approximately one and one half miles southeast of the village of Currie, Minnesota. The local newspaper states:"He is a member of a company now operating a livestock farm near Marshall." Then on 12 November 1885 the news reports: "Mr. F. H. Mette moved his family from near Marshall to Frank Barrows farm just west of this place last week." Thus Arthur no...