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A Summary of the Newspaper Clippings From 1897 Princeton Minnesota

A Summary of the Newspaper Clippings From 1897 Princeton Minnesota

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Link to Joseph A. Jesmer  

Link to Jesmer family history

Peter A. Robideau is in the cord wood business.  He is looking for work in a saw mill.

2-16-1897:   There is a dance at the house of Joseph A. Jesmer in Greenbush in order to raise money to benefit the Catholic church.

J.R. Robideau is giving up on the hotel business. Many people of the Jesmer clan were stopping and starting businesses.

Nelson E, Jesmer is selling “Wool Malone Pants” (Which are still being made today. They are very expensive), paper and Bon Bons at his store. Nelson is also an officer at the Oak knoll Cemetery Association.

3-25-1897: Joseph A. Jesmer is putting his home up for rent. He has cattle, sheep, hogs, wagons and farm tools.) His youngest son Hubert didn’t want to take over the family farm. He was an adventurer. He joined the circus. He went to Montana to be a rancher, fought in WW1 in Europe, and ended living in Manitoba.) Joseph was getting older. His kids were business men. And he would die in four years from a stroke.

3-26-1897: There is a “Tea” social event for Miss Delia Jesmer

The Jesmer clan was frequently visiting friends and family in the nearby small towns. Peter Robideau is moving to Milaca Minnesota.

Mrs Louis Robideau sustained a facial injury from a run-away horse. It is not healing.

Sidney Jesmer was living in Greenbush.

5-4-1897: Peter A. Robideau and his two sons had a wagon accident. His son broke his arm.

5-25-1897: N.A. Grow lived in Greenbush. He is sick in this year.

Nelson E. Jesmer’s kids, Lola and Herbert B. Jesmer are visiting friends in Hammond Wisconsin. Herbert B. Jesmer will also go to Buffalo New York and the eastern states. This family was rich. You can tell that they were free to travel a lot. In this year Nelson E. Jesmer was going on a two-week vacation.

Nelson E. Jesmer was a scribe for the Oddfellows association. Other service organizations were the Rathbone Sisters and the Knights of Pythias. The K of P had a Castle Hall in Princeton.

7-27-1897: Louis Jesmer was going on a journey.

8-10-1897: Nelson A. Grow dies of TB (consumption). He had married Adeline Jesmer in 1864. Adeline in sister of Joseph A. Jesmer. She had moved to Minnesota three years before Joseph. That means that N.A. Grow and Adeline Jesmer Grow, may have led the way for the Jesmer clan to move west to Minnesota. N.A. Grow was an elected official. He is buried in Greenbush.

9-23-1897: Miss Libbie Robideau was teaching fine embroidery.

E.G. Waldhoff is opening up a new general merchandise store. He had been in Foreston, in North Branch for ten years. The Jesmer clan was trying to open up many different businesses in these newly formed towns. They were also getting into local politics.

There were lots of cases of TB, (Consumption)

Other things that were going in 1897

approx 1897     Uncle A.D. Jesmer moves Greenbush area to Park Rapids Minnesota.

(from Joseph A. Jesmer’s obituary.)

March 4 1897 – William McKinley inaugurated as president of the United States.

March 18, 1897 Nelson A. Jesmer (Joseph’s oldest child) bought 40 acres near Duluth Minnesota. He had three young kids and was running a hotel in Hibbing Minnesota. There was a lot land speculation. He could have bought the land for mineral exploration or lumber.

The end of 1897 papers.




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