Marshall County KS Archives Biographies.....Yaussi, Frank 1856 - living in 1917
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FRANK YAUSSI.

    Frank Yaussi, one of Marysville's best-known and most progressive merchants,
the proprietor of a well-stocked clothing and men's furnishing store there and
who also has extensive banking interests, is a native of the Republic of
Switzerland, but has been a resident of Kansas since he was twelve years of age.
He was born in the city of Berne, Switzerland, March 21, 1856, son of Christian
and Elizabeth (Begert) Yaussi, the former of whom died in his native land and
the latter of whom spent her last days in Marysville, this county.

    Christian Yaussi, also a native of Switzerland, was born in 1825 and was
early trained to the butcher trade, a vocation he followed all his life. He died
in Canton Berne in 1863 and five years later, in 1868, his widow and her six
children came to this country and settled on a farm in Brown county, this state,
the family remaining there farming the place and holding together for about ten
years and thus getting a good start in the country of their adoption. Mrs.
Yaussi later moved to Marysville, where she spent her last days, an honored
pioneer, her death occurring in 1907, she then being in the seventy-fifth year
of her age. She was the mother of seven children, of whom the subject of this
sketch was the sixth in order of birth, the others being as follow: Rosa, who
married John Detwiler and is now deceased; Fred J., deceased; Elizabeth, who
married Gottlieb Buhler and died in Switzerland; Rudolph, who is a well-known
and substantial farmer of this county; Gottlieb, a farmer of Brown county, this
state, and Mary, who married John Aegerte, a farmer, of Garber, Oklahoma.

    Frank Yaussi was about twelve years of age when his family came to this
country and he grew to manhood on the home farm in Brown county, presently
beginning farming on his own account. In 1884, about three years after his
marriage in Brown county, he came over into Marshall county and bought a quarter
of a section of land west of Marysville, where he established his home, later
buying an adjoining tract of one hundred and twenty acres, and there made his
home, farming and raising stock, for sixteen or eighteen years, at the end of
which time he sold his place and moved to Marysville. He bought the bottling
works that had been established in that city and for six years or more was
engaged in the manufacture of soda "pop" and carbonated drinks. He then, in
1904, formed a partnership with George Love in the general merchandise business,
with a store at the west end of Broadway in Marysville, and was thus engaged
until 1908, when the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Yaussi entered upon his
present successful line of men's furnishings and clothing, in which he has done
very well, long having been regarded as one of the most substantial merchants in
the city. He carries a full and complete line of clothing and men's furnishings
and his store is well stocked and equipped in up-to-date fashion. In addition to
his mercantile interests, Mr. Yaussi possesses considerable banking interests
and is a member of the board of directors of two banks, the Citizens State Bank
at Marysville and the bank at Winifred. Mr. Yaussi owns a valuable tract of ten
acres of land adjoining the city of Marysville and also owns land in southern
Kansas. He is a Republican and has performed public service as a member of the
Marysville city council.

     On September 9, 1881, at Hiawatha, Kansas, Frank Yaussi was united in
marriage to Mary Feller, who was born on a farm in the vicinity of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, in February, 1869, a daughter of David and Mary (Siegrest) Feller, natives
of Switzerland and early settlers in Iowa, who later came to this state and
spent their last days in Brown county. To Mr. and Mrs. Yaussi nine children have
been born, namely: Alma, who married F. Schmidtt and is now deceased; Ida, who
married John Mohr, a farmer living west of Marysville: Dora, who married Otto
Briefeldt and is living at Aviston, Illinois: Albert, who is engaged in the
banking business at Winifred, this county; Florence, who is at home and is
engaged in the teaching of music; Esther, also at home, who is a stenographer
for W. W. Redmond; Ellen, who is a member of Marshall county's teaching corps;
Charles, who died when three months of age, and Blanche, who is at home. The
Yaussis have a pleasant home at Marysville and take a proper part in the social
activities of their home town. They are members of the Lutheran Reformed church
and have ever given their earnest attention to the various beneficences of the
same.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

History of Marshall County, Kansas: its people, industries, and institutions
by
Emma E. Forter

Indianapolis, Ind.: B.F. Bowen & Co. (1917)

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