Born: 1779, Kaposia (just below Mount Trempealeau, south of St. Paul), Minnesota.
Died: March 3, 1846, at home in Lac qui Parle, Minnesota.
Buried: On the bluff overlooking Fort Renville in Lac qui Parle, Minnesota.
Renville was the son of a French-Canadian trader and a Dakota Native American mother.
Educated by a Roman Catholic priest, he worked as a guide and fur trader. He founded the Fort Renville fur trading post at Lac qui Parle in 1826.
He invited missionaries to the area around 1835, and helped them translate the Bible into the Dakota language.
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