[citation needed] Victor Adolphus Pépin, the eldest son of André Pepin, a Canadian who fought for the Americans in their Revolution against the British, was born in Albany, New York.
Victor was taken by his father to France in 1793 and returned to the United States with Jean Breschard in 1807.
Pépin was the probable cause of a riot centered on his circus in Pittsburgh in 1824.
[2] In 1833, he was a member of John Charles Beales's Rio Grande Colony which helped colonize Texas.
He died in 1845 and is buried at New Albany, Indiana in an unmarked grave at Fairview Cemetery.