Bio of Alfred AMBROSE (b 1874), Jackson Co., MN

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The following excerpt comes from 
An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota
by Arthur P. Rose
Northern History Publishing Company, Jackson, Minnesota, 1910

p. 566

ALFRED AMBROSE (1884), a Wisconsin township farmer and stock raiser, 
is a native of Austria and was born September 5, 1874. His father, 
Paul Ambrose, died April 5, 1900, his mother is still living and resides 
with her son.

Alfred came to the United States with his parents when only two years of 
age and until the spring of 1884 resided at Earlham, Madison county, 
Iowa. On April 9, 1884, the family moved to Jackson county, and upon 
his father's Wisconsin township farm Alfred worked until he reached his 
majority. After becoming of age he took the management of the home farm, 
the west half of the southeast quarter of section 33, which he still 
farms in addition to his own property, the east half of the southeast 
quarter of section 4, Petersburg township. Mr. Ambrose owns stock in 
the Farmers' Cooperative Elevator company, of Alpha. He is a member of 
the M. W. A. and Z. C. B. J. lodges of Jackson.

On September 24, 1901, Mr. Ambose was married to Miss Josie Skalsky. To 
these parents have been born the following named children: Bennie, born 
December 7, 1902; Albert, born October, 1904; Agnes, born November 7, 
1906; baby, born January 16, 1908.