Bio of Haessig, Jacob (b.1838) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Haessig, Jacob, is a well-to-do farmer of Plainview township. He was born
in Alsace, Europe, January 6, 1838, on a farm twelve miles west of Worth.
John Haessig, his father, was a farmer and shepherd. Our subject received
the customary education provided by the German common school system. In
1859 Alsace was French territory, and Napoleon III called upon her for her
quota of soldiers for the Austrian war. A draft was ordered, but Mr.
Haessig was lucky enough to escape it, and two years later he came to
America, where he first found employment in the American House, at
Cleveland, Ohio. He remained here but a few months, and then went to
Elkhart, Indiana, where he did farmwork until the autumn of 1863, when he
came to Minnesota, and bought a farm of eighty acres in Whitewater
township, Winona county, from Judge Mitchell. In 1865 he bought John W.
Studebaker's place in Plainview township, Wabasha county, and took up his
residence thereon. He has since disposed of this Winona county farm, and
now owns two hundred and forty acres of rich farming land, all in the
township of Plainview. He was married March 26, 1869, to the widow of
Franklyn Sylvester, a pioneer of 1856, by whom he has had three children:
Helen E., Ida W. and Lafayette H. Mrs. Haessig had three children by her
first husband, as follows: Jennie (Mrs. Skidmore), of Spink county,
Dakota; Emma B. (Mrs. Cornelius Badger), of Waseca, Minnesota, and Arthur
C. Sylvester, fireman on the Winona & St. Peter railroad. The Elgin
cyclone of 1883 did some damage to Mr. Haessig's farm buildings.
Politically and socially Mr. Haessig has been quite popular, being a
worthy member of Plainview Lodge, I.O.O.F., and was elected by the
democratic party county commissioner in 1878, and served three years.
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