Bio of Yotta, Jacob (b.1832) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Yotta, Jacob, farmer, has been a resident of Mazeppa since 1874, at which
time he traded a farm in Iowa for two hundred and forty acres on section
5. Mr. Yotta has been somewhat unfortunate since residing here, having
lost four crops. That of 1882 caught fire form the engine of a steam
thresher, and was consumed. Mr. Yotta is a native of Germany, being born
in Ipstein, Bavaria, January 21, 1832. His wife Elizabeth (born Lutz) is a
native of the same village, and was married to him in Iowa (whither he was
brought by his parents at fourteen) on July 22, 1855. Mr Yotta has aways
been a farmer, and never attended an English school a day. His natural
intelligence, however, drove him to a cultivation of the language of his
adopted country, and he is better informed today than many native-born
citizens. He has always been a republican. While within reach of the
German Evangelical church, the family was united with it, and now attends
the Congregational church at Mazeppa. The eldest child, Elizabeth, born
August 10, 1858, married L. B. Stull, and lives within half a mile of her
parents. The rest are all at home, and were born and christened as
follows: Peter, November 17, 1860; William, January 19, 1863; John, August
20, 1865; Emma C., June 7, 1867; Jacob, November 28, 1870; Henry, January
28, 1873; Frederick C., July 1, 1877.