Hercules Louis Dousman ( August 4, 1800 – September 12, 1868 ) was a trader and real-estate speculator who played a large role in the economic development of Wisconsin.

Hercules and Jane Dousman had one son, Hercules Louis Dousman II, who was born on April 3, 1848.

Owing to his wealth and his father's previous association with Henry Hastings Sibley, who had earlier served as Governor of Minnesota, Dousman rose quickly in St. Paul's society.

As these Swiss were moving from the Selkirk settlement to become the first civilian residents of Minnesota, Dousman of Michilimackinac, Michigan, and Prairie Du Chien was traveling to Red River to open a trade in merchandise.

Dousman was born on Mackinac Island, Michigan, the son of Michael Dousman, a prominent fur trader on the island.

Only a few months later, Rolette died in debt to the new company, and most of his estate was seized by the remaining partners, including Dousman.

Dousman was very influential in bringing the railroad to Prairie du Chien by 1857, making the Milwaukee & Mississippi the first railroad to lay track all the way across Wisconsin.

Hercules Louis Dousman II ( April 3, 1848 – January 13, 1886 ), better known as Louis Dousman, was the son of Wisconsin millionaire Hercules Louis Dousman I.

Louis Dousman was born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, the son of Hercules and Jane Dousman.

Dousman is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States.

Dousman is located at ( 43. 014801 ,-88. 472564 ).

Dousman is buried at Calvary Cemetery in Prairie du Chien .< ref >

Then in 1842 the American Fur Company declared bankruptcy, and in order to continue in the trade Dousman entered into a joint venture with Rolette, Sibley, and Pierre Chouteau to organize a new company which would take its place on the upper Mississippi.

Dousman acted as guardian of Poquette's orphaned children and petitioned to secure for them a pension.

On the west side of the river, the highway follows Dousman Steet for a block before turning north along Broadway Avenue for four blocks.

As Dousman began building his investments during the 1830s, he also began a long affair with a Prairie du Chien woman named Margaret Campbell.

Hercules L. Dousman, fur trader and merchant at Prairie Du Chien, contracted to supply Selkirk's people with some 300 head of cattle, and Alexis Bailly and Francois Labothe were hired as drovers.

The Glacial Drumlin State Trail, a 47-mile long hiking-biking-snowmobile trail that runs east-west between the towns of Cottage Grove and Waukesha, passes through the middle of Dousman.

Dousman has a paid police force and a volunteer fire department.

Dousman, the aforementioned source of Brodhead's information about the Indian names.

Hercules L. Dousman

In 1826, the company sent Dousman to the frontier settlement of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, where he worked as an assistant to the company's local agent Joseph Rolette.

In Prairie du Chien, Dousman proved his abilities as a trader, quickly rising in the company's ranks.

With this and other revenue, Dousman's wealth began to rise, and it only grew as Dousman began to invest in lumber mills in northern Wisconsin and real estate in some of the states growing population centers.

Dousman would eventually marry Jane Fisher Rolette, the soon-to-be widow of his partner in the trade, Joseph Rolette.

In 1844, two years after Joseph Rolette's death, Dousman would marry his widow, Jane.

Together the couple moved into the large two story brick house that Dousman had constructed a year earlier.

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