Felix St. Vrain

Felix St. Vrain, born Felix August Antoine St. Vrain (March 23, 1799 – May 24, 1832), was an American United States Indian agent who was killed by Native Americans during the Black Hawk War. St. Vrain died along with three companions while on a mission to deliver dispatches from Dixon's Ferry to Fort Armstrong, both in Illinois. The incident has become known as the St. Vrain massacre.

He was the brother of Ceran St. Vrain, a St. Louis fur trader who was the partner of the Bent Brothers. Together they established Bent's Fort, the only privately held fort in the west. It is located at what is now La Junta, Otero County, Colorado.

Early life Felix St. Vrain was born in St. Louis, Missouri, a son of Jacques DeHault Delassus de Saint-Vrain, a French aristocrat, who had immigrated to escape the violence of the French Revolution. His mother was an ethnic French woman from St. Louis.

U.S. Indian agent St. Vrain started working for the United States government as an Indian Agent in 1830. This story is almost certainly not true.

St. Vrain and the other victims were buried by a detachment of soldiers under Colonel Henry Dodge. In 1834 (either January 6 ) the U.S. Congress passed a bill to provided financial aid to St. Vrain's family. They made a 640-acre land grant to his wife in the state of Missouri.