Bio of John AMBROSE (b 1861), 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. 502-503

JOHN AMBROSE (1884), a Wisconsin township farmer and stockraiser, owns 
eighty acres in section 33, Wisconsin, and eighty acres in section 4, 
Petersburg. He is a native of Austria and was born August 8, 1861, the 
son of Paul and Mary Ambrose. 

In 1874 our subject came to America with his parents and located in 
DeSoto, Iowa, where he received his education. In April, 1884, Mr. 
Ambrose came to Jackson county with his parents, with whom he continued 
to reside on the farm until he was twenty-seven of age. He married in 
1889 and then began farming for himself on a place one mile east of the 
Jackson depot. A little later he bought a farm one mile south of the 
present location of the village of Alpha, farmed that plasce three years 
and then traded it for his present farm.

Mr. Ambrose was married March 4, 1889, to Miss Fannie Najt, of Jackson, 
and to them have been born these children: Annie, born December 1, 1889; 
John, born October 19, 1891; Edward, born January 5, 1893; Elenora, born 
October 1, 1894; Lloyd, born August 25, 1896; William, born July 14, 1898; 
Rose, born June 27, 1901; Leonard, born July 24, 1904, died November 21, 
1905; Paul, born July 26, 1909. Mr. Ambrose was born August 12, 1871, and 
died August 10, 1909.

In addition to his farming Mr. Ambrose has other business interests. He 
owns stock in the Farmers Cooperative elevator and in the Alpha Creamery 
association. He is a Methodist and a member of the M. W. A. and Z. C. B. J. 
of Jackson.