Bio of Stegner, Jacob M. (b.1825) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1920.
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Stegner, Jacob M. (page 681), an early settler in Oakwood Township, was
born in Indiana in 1825, of English and German descent. He was there
reared and in 1851 married Rachel N. McGuffin, who was of Scotch and Irish
descent. In 1866 they came to Wabasha County and bought 160 acres of wild
land in Oakwood Township. The county had then been settled for some years
and had a considerable population, but conditions were still quite
primitive. Mr. Stegner set to work to build for himself and family a
comfortable log house and to wrest a living from the soil, gradually
breaking more and more land. When the railroad came through the tracks
were located so near his house that the roadbed extended practically to
its foundations. In 1881 a more suitable location was selected and a
comfortable dwelling built. The family prospered with the years and won an
honorable place in the community, residing there until 1886. They then
moved to Zumbro Falls, where the father engaged in the general mercantile
business, being thus occupied until his death in 1898. Soon after that
event Mrs. Stegner removed to Lake City, where she resided with her
daughter, Mrs. William Potter, until her own death, which occurred in the
spring of 1908. In the Stegner family there were ten children: Benjamin
F., Edwin J., Robert L., Johanna, Shannon M., and Clara, all born in
Indiana; and Mary, Lorenzo D., Theodore and Rachel Ella, born in Oakwood
Township. Benjamin F. was born in January 1, 1852, and now lives on a farm
near Beardsley, Big Stone County, Minn. Edwin J. was born in 1854 and died
at St. Paul, August 2, 1917. In early life he had been a farmer and at the
time of his death was a traveling salesman for the McFadden Candy Co. of
St. Paul. Robert I. Was born in 1856 and was a farmer; he died in 1900 at
Aurora, S. D. Johanna was born in 1858; she married Mason Brandt, a
miller, and later a farmer at West Albany, this county, and died at
Rochester in 1912 after undergoing an operation. Shannon M. was born May
27, 1862, and is now a barber in Lake City. Clara, born in 1864, is now
Mrs. William Potter of Minneapolis. Mary was born in 1867, and is now Mrs.
Charles E. Winter of Minneapolis, Minn. Lorenzo D., born May 7, 1870, is a
traveling salesman with headquarters at Minneapolis. Theodore, born August
17, 1872, is now register of deeds of Wabasha County. Rachel Ella, born in
May, 1875, is now Mrs. B. H. Deters of St. Paul.