Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Jessup, Fern 
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Author: Ed Blair (1915)

  Miss Fern Jessup, who conducts a drug store and ice cream parlor at Overland
Park, is a representative of the successful business women of the twentieth
century. Miss Jessup is a native of the Sunflower State. She was born at
Rosedale and is a daughter of Joseph B. and Asenath (Johnson) Jessup, the former
a native of Henry county, Indiana, and the latter a native of Illinois and a
pioneer of Johnson county. Joseph B. Jessup came to Johnson county, Kansas, in
1868 and bought eighty acres formerly belonging to the Baptist mission. He
married Asenath E. Johnson in 1876, the ceremony taking place at the residence
of D. B. Johnson, a brother of the bride and a Johnson county pioneer. Joseph D.
Jessup died at his residence at Antioch, Kan., June 24, 1915. Joseph B. and
Asenath E. (Johnson) Jessup were the parents of three children, as follows:
Ralph Jessup married Delia Rippee, of Mansfield, Mo., and they now reside on the
home place at Antioch; Earl married Lennie Van Bibber, of Shawnee, Kan., and
they also reside on the home place at Antioch, and Fern, whose name introduces
this sketch. Miss Fern Jessup attended the common schools in District No. 61,
and Hickory Grove School No. 40. After completing the public schools, she
entered the Manhattan Agricultural College and took a five years' course. After
graduating from that institution she spent about two years at home with her
parents, In 1914 she purchased the drugstore at Overland Park, from Dr. J. H.
Stough, which she has since conducted. By her courteous manner and close
attention to business, Miss Jessup has built up a profitable and permanent
business and has proven herself to be a successful business woman. Mrs. Asenath
Jessup, mother of Fern Jessup, came to Kansas in 1859. Her sister, Mrs. Anna
Sloman, was matron at the Quaker Mission from 1860 to 1863, while Mr. Stanley
was at the head of the school.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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