Joas Jette Biography from History of Rockingham County, NH
From: Bill Prokasy - wprokasy@arches.uga.edu

Surname: JETTE
Source:  History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens
          by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915

Page 1176

   JOAS JETTE, proprietor of the Star Laundry, a prosperous business
concern of Exeter, has had many years of experience in this line and largely
controls the laundry output in this city. He was born in Canada, July 19,
1860, and is a son of Joseph and Mary (Messe) Jette, and a grandson of
Joseph Jette. Both parents passed their entire lives in Canada, where the
father was a farmer, and both were devout members of the Catholic church.
They had the following children: Joseph, Alexander, Euphrasia (wife of
Louis Mathieu), Louis, August, John, Philias, Dosithe, Joas and Antoine.
  Joas Jette attended school in Canada in boyhood but in his neighborhood
only French was spoken and, when, at the age of twenty-three years he came
to the United States, he had to learn the English tongue. He secured employ-
ment in the American Screw Factory at Providence, R. I., where he worked
for two years, and then came to Rockingham County and followed farming
for eight years and then went into the laundry business, working for A. C.
Wingate for three years before embarking in the same line for himself. He
attributes his success to industry and perseverance, a thorough knowledge of
the business and a settled policy to turn out only the best kind of work. The
Star Laundry is equipped with modern laundry machinery and eighteen hands
are employed. In addition to owning this plant Mr. Jette has a comfortable
residence which stands on the corner of Hall Place and Pleasant Street,
Exeter.
   In 1879 Mr. Jette was married to Miss Jessie Proulx, who was born in
Canada and is a daughter of Louis and Orelia (Landry) Prou1x. The
brothers and sisters of Mrs. Jette are: Eugene, Threffe, Emit, Philip,
Mineglle, Octavia, Rose and Mary Louise. Mr. and Mrs. Jette have one
daughter, Elma, who married Vertune Duffault and they have eight children:
Zenobia, who is the wife of Emil Denoncourt, Irene, Blanche, Jessie, Edward
and Louise, twins, Carvel and William. The family belongs to the Catholic
church. He votes with the republican party and maintains fraternal relations
with the Catholic Order of Foresters, The Red Men, the Foresters of America
and the Canada-America Association at Manchester. Mr. Jette is a much
respected citizen and during his eighteen years of business under his own
name has brought much credit on the same.

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