Théophile Bruguier

Bruguier is credited as being the first white settler of what would become Sioux City, Iowa.

[1][2] His parents were Elizabeth Kipp from England and French-Canadian Jean Bruguier.

He soon became engaged, but his fiancée died from cholera, and Bruguier then left Quebec[1] on October 12, 1835.

[1][2][a] Bruguier became an independent fur trader and helped to settle tensions between white settlers and Native Americans.

[1][2] Bruguier continued in the trade business, and was a wagon freighter and an Indian commissioner.