Newaygo County MI Archives Biographies.....Jarse, Julia January 1, 1821 - 
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Author: Chapman Brothers

MRS. JULIA JARSE, proprietress of the Jarse House at Newaygo, was born st St. 
Mary's, Canada, Jan. 1, 

1821, and is the daughter of Peter and Margaret LeMay.  The parents were of 
pure French descent.  Her 

father removed to Burlington, Vt., when she was 12 years old, where he engaged 
in farming about ten years, 

returning to Canada with his wife, where both remained during the closing 
years of their lives.  The 

daughter was married at Vergennes, Vt., Dec. 1, 1838, to John Bailey, a native 
of Three Rivers, Can.  By 

this marriage she became the mother of five children - Julia, Rosa, Josephine, 
John and Joseph.  Mr. 

Basiley died in 1850, and not long after that event she went with her children 
to Glens Falls, Washington 

Co., N.Y., and after a widowhood of three years was married, JUly 4, 1853, to 
David Jarse.  He was of 

French lineage and a native of Montreal.  In 1854 Mr. Jarse came to Michigan 
with his family and settled 

at Newaygo, where he operated about ten years as a saw-filer.  In 1865 he 
built a commodious house, which 

was utilized as a boarding-house until its destruction by fire in April, 
1883.  Mr. Jarse died in 1875.  

The burning of her house with no insurance involved a loss of $4,000, and Mrs. 
Jarse rebuilt with as 

little delay as was possible.  The new structure is a handsome edifice, built 
of brick, at an expenditure 

of $5,000 and contains quarters for the accommodation of 30 guests.  Mrs. 
Jarse owns, besides the hotel 

and two lots on which it stands, a residence and once acre of ground in the 
village, and 80 acres of 

farming land in the township of Garfield.  She has one son, John Bailey (see 
sketch), in business at 

Newaygo.

Additional Comments:
1884 Portrait & Bio Album of Newaygo Co.

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