Note 82 — Front matter

Daniel Greysolon du Luth (Lhut) was for a time commandant of the northwest. Coming to Canada as an officer from France about 1676 he conducted an expedition against the Sioux in 1678 and a year later took formal possession of their country for France. He spent several years as an explorer and fur trader, and in 1689 returned to the St. Lawrence. His death occurred in 1710. See Minn. Hist. Coll., Vol. I. His name is spelled Du Luth, Du Lut, Dulhut, De Luth, Dulud and Du Luhd in the old documents. The city of Duluth, St. Louis Co., Minnesota, founded in 1856, was named after the explorer at the suggestion of Rev. J. G. Wilson of Logansport, Indiana. See Stennett, History of the Origin of the Place Names connected with the C. & N. W. R. R., etc., Chic., 1908.