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Jacob Gustav Johannsen

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Jacob Gustav Johannsen

Birth
Avoca, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
Death
14 Feb 1960 (aged 87)
Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
Plot
block a lot 24 grave 3
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Jacob G. Johannsen (1895)
JACOB G. JOHANNSEN is the owner of a well Improved farm of 240 acres on section 22, Sweet township, upon which he has lived since 1902. Most of the improvements have been made on the place since it came into the possession of Mr. Johannsen.

The parents of our subject, Claus and Fredericka (Loucks) Johannsen, are still living and reside in Pipestone. Jacob was born In Pottawattamie county, Iowa, on the fourth of September, 1874. He was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of his native county, which was his home until he was twenty-one years of age. Then, in 1895, he came to Pipestone county to farm land owned by his father, on section 31, Sweet. He resided there until buying the farm he now conducts. Mr. Johannsen raises stock quite extensively. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipestone.

In Sweet township, on November 9, 1897, occurred the marriage of Jacob G. Johannsen to Maggie Tanck, who came to the United States when seven years old. She was born on the Island of Fehmen, a part of the German empire, May 30, 1875. Six sons have been born to this union, as follows: Arthur, born August 3, 1898; John, born November 30, 1901; Albert, born April 28, 1903; Louis, born November 20, 1907; and the baby, born August 24, 1910. Mr. Johannsen and family are members of the German Lutheran church of Pipestone. transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman
Jacob G. Johannsen (1895)
JACOB G. JOHANNSEN is the owner of a well Improved farm of 240 acres on section 22, Sweet township, upon which he has lived since 1902. Most of the improvements have been made on the place since it came into the possession of Mr. Johannsen.

The parents of our subject, Claus and Fredericka (Loucks) Johannsen, are still living and reside in Pipestone. Jacob was born In Pottawattamie county, Iowa, on the fourth of September, 1874. He was reared on a farm and educated in the district schools of his native county, which was his home until he was twenty-one years of age. Then, in 1895, he came to Pipestone county to farm land owned by his father, on section 31, Sweet. He resided there until buying the farm he now conducts. Mr. Johannsen raises stock quite extensively. He is a stockholder in the Farmers Elevator company of Pipestone.

In Sweet township, on November 9, 1897, occurred the marriage of Jacob G. Johannsen to Maggie Tanck, who came to the United States when seven years old. She was born on the Island of Fehmen, a part of the German empire, May 30, 1875. Six sons have been born to this union, as follows: Arthur, born August 3, 1898; John, born November 30, 1901; Albert, born April 28, 1903; Louis, born November 20, 1907; and the baby, born August 24, 1910. Mr. Johannsen and family are members of the German Lutheran church of Pipestone. transcribed by Mary Kay Krogman


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