Jacob B. Camerer Biography


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	Co., Chicago, 1899. Pages 575-576

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JACOB B. CAMERER occupies a prominent place as a well-to-do and 
progressive member of the farming community of Hanson county, in Spring 
Lake township, of which he has an elegant farm of one-half section of 
and, besides forty acres of land adjoining the city of Alexandria. 

Mr. Camerer is of German and English descent. His parents, Alfred and 
Almira (Wood) Camerer, were both born in Indiana, were there married, 
and there in the "Hoosier State" their children were born. Of this 
family of seven children, the subject of our sketch is the second in 
order of birth, and was born in Marshall county, Indiana, November 15, 
1861. He grew to manhood in the county of his nativity, and at the age 
of eighteen years he entered the Northern Indiana State Normal School 
and took a two years' course, interspersing his college work with 
teaching school and farming to raise the necessary funds. He graduated 
from the above named institution with the class of 1881. After 
finishing his college course, Mr. Camerer devoted his time to teaching 
for about four years, and in 1885, with his newly married wife, moved 
to Hanson county, Dakota, and settled in Jasper township, where he 
purchased a farm. There he was engaged in agricultural pursuits for 
about six years, occasionally teaching a term of school during this 
time. In 1891 he purchased his present farm, and in 1894, when he sold 
his Jasper township interests, he moved to his new home and has since 
made his residence there. Previous to this he had purchased an improved 
farm of forty acres adjoining the city of Alexandria, and for a short 
time held an interest in a store in Fulton, Hanson county. In political 
matters, Mr. Camerer uses his elective franchise in the support of the 
candidates of the Republican party, and is an ardent advocate of the 
policies of prohibition and equal suffrage. He has always taken an 
active part in local political affairs and has served one term as 
township clerk. Socially our subject affiliates with the Alexandria 
lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, also a member of the Modern 
Woodmen of America, while Mrs. Camerer is a member of the Royal 
Neighbors. 

February 5, 1885, Mr. Camerer was united in marriage to Miss Sarah H. 
Caldwell, a daughter of Archibald and Lucy A. (McClanahan) Caldwell. 
The wife is also a native of Marshall county, Indiana, and was born 
March 17, 1864. A son and a daughter are the only offspring of this 
union, and they bear the names of Lucy and Alfred A.