Museum
Preserving
the History of
Union County
Union
County Museum
124 E. Main Street
Elk Point, South Dakota 57025
Saturday & Sunday 1:00 - 4:00 P.M.
Private tours available upon request
Museum Spotlight
The
Horn Chair
This Horn Chair was a gift from Desire LaBreche to his
father, the Honorable Charles LaBreche, who was a representative to the
territorial legislature in Yankton for one term and served as representative to
the state legislature for one term, also in Yankton.
Desire and his two brothers, Alfred and Charlie staked their
claim in the gold fields in the Black Hills after the death of their mother in
1876. The chair was manufactured by the Kauffman 
Brothers
and is dated 1886, Deadwood, Dakota Territory. It is believed that there were only three of
these chairs made before the project was abandoned. It was told that ten hay
racks of deer and elk horns had been collected from the prairie. One chair is on
exhibit in a museum in Deadwood, South Dakota. The whereabouts of the third
chair is unknown.
As told to me by my mother, Rosalie Loiselle LeBreche
(daughter-in-law of the Hon. Charles LaBreche)
Calanthe LaBreche Lambert