LASSELLE, NANCY POLK (MRS. HYACINTH): ?-1866.
According to J. Z. Powell's History of Cass County " Mrs. Nancy Polk Lasselle , wife of Hyacinth Lasselle, came to Logansport in the early 1830'S. In 1849 they went to Washington, D. C., where she edited a society magazine THE METROPOLITAN … She died in 1866."
It may be added that Hyacinth Lasselle, her husband, was of the French-Canadian family which had come to the middle west as traders and voyageurs long before American, or, for that matter, even British encroachments, and had remained in prominent civil and business capacities along the Wabash through the Revolution and the War of 1812.
Nancy Polk had been a member of a prominent Eastern family before her marriage and she found her husband entirely in sympathy with her aristocratic ideas, in spite of his backwoods background.
Information from Powell–History of Cass County.
- Anna Grayson.
- Hope Marshall.
