Pierre La Chapelle (1844-1896)
Salesman, of Montreal, Michigan & Montana
He was born in rural Quebec where he was a tailor. Coming to America, he became a salesman, selling medical ointments such as a eyedrops and later spectacles. He was neither a doctor nor a physician, as alluded to on his grand monument at Butte, erected by his wealthy daughter, Anna Clark. He first came to Calumet (Michigan) before moving to the mining town of Butte in Montana where they lived in the roughest part of the town by the factories, renting cheap rooms to miners.
