Could this be like the log cabin that Joseph A. Jesmer built with his two brothers when he first came to Greenbush Township Minnesota in 1867?
Could this be like the log cabin that Joseph A. Jesmer built with his two brothers when he first came to Greenbush Township Minnesota in 1867?
Link to Joseph A. Jesmer page Outlying buildings, animals and fields
The Greenbush Catholic Church Old Midwest farm buildings
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
He and his wife had a few children by that time. It must have been a two story cabin. I was told, by an old man living in Greenbush that the barn fell down in the 1940’s and there was a pile of logs at the “Old Jesmer Place.” This log cabin was build in the 1830’s by the Kline family in Dupage county in Illinois. They were a Catholic family from New York. On old cabin, is the cabin build by the Ellwood’s in DeKalb Illinois in the late 1800’s. It gives a person an impression as to what the cabin looked like.
According to Janet Evers, a Jesmer descendent, now dead, “The four Jesmer brothers arrived in the area about 1867 and Nelson Grow and Adeline Jesmer in 1869. The Robideaux’s, other Grow’s, DeShaw’s, Belair’s, etc. came along later.” Traveling west, they would stop in Taylor Falls, on the MN/Wisc border, and purchased land from the federal government, who was eager to sell the land and set up new communities in order to collect taxes.( According to the Bureau of Land management: Eastern States. 7450 Boston Boulevard Springfield VA 22153-3121 att. GLO Records Access Section)… Joseph purchased Section 32, township 36-N, Range 27W, Fraction Section: N, Meridian 4th principle, Meridian-1831 Minnesota/Wisconsin, Acres = 160, Mille Lacs County, Document No. 499, Misc Document Number = 583, Authority= May 20, 1862, Homestead entry = 12 sat. 392. Signature present = yes, signature date = 9/1/1874, Land Office = Taylor Falls. (a person can order this document)They landed in St. Paul and stayed until the fall when they traveled 60 miles north to Greenbush Township and built a log cabin in the densely wooded area. Simply speaking, his land is seven miles west of Princeton. (When traveling on Highway 95, turn south on 160th street and turn east on 20th street and you will be on the north edge of section 32. His land was the north half of section 32.)
When Joseph and his family arrived the area was wilderness. There was some logging going on. Joseph came with his two brothers, Adulphus D. Jesmer, and Nelson Edward Jesmer. Between the three brothers all they had was $1.65 and a sack of flour. Together they built a log cabin and began the long arduous task of clearing the land and planting crops.
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