1890’s farm house- Kline Creek Farm West Chicago 2016
1890’s farm house- Kline Creek Farm West Chicago 2016. What this what the house of Joseph A. Jesmer was like?
This is an 1890’s farm house in West Chicago Illinois. It was built by the Kline family in the 1880’s. It is furnished for the 1890’s. They were a German Catholic family from New York. They were a Midwestern farm family of moderate means. I included this because I wanted to to know what what the farm of Joseph A. Jesmer, my great-great grandfather might have been like in Greenbush Township Minnesota. He settled there in 1867 and built a log cabin and later a farm house. The Klines built a log cabin and then a farmhouse. The Jesmers were Catholic French Canadian farmers from upper state New York, a farm family of moderate means also. I am willing to bet that Joseph and MaryAnn Jesmer’s house was not much different than this. Enjoy!
Greenbush township, settled in 1856, organized in 1869, was named for the township of Greenbush adjoining the east side of Penobscot river in Maine. Many of the settlers in this county, both for its pine lumbering and for farming, came from that “Pine Tree State,” being therefore commonly called “Mainites.”
http://genealogytrails.com/minn/millelacs/history.htm
Link to Joseph A. Jesmer page Outlying buildings, animals and fields log cabin in the 1800’s
The Greenbush Catholic Church Old Midwest farm buildings farm implements and 2 farms 1871
History of Greenbush and Mille Lacs County Minnesota
Newspaper articles about Greenbush Township 1876-1879 , 1879-1881,
The story of the Jesmer’s move to Minnesota told by date and event
The story of the Jesmer’s in Greenbush and Princeton told by date and event
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