Turner County, SD Biographies.....Janssen, R. February 24, 1847 - 
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Source: MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF Turner, Lincoln, Union and Clay Counties, South Dakota. (1897)
Author: Geo. Ogle & Co.

R. JANSSEN, one of Turner county’s old settlers engaged in the pursuit of
agriculture in sections 25 and 30 Germantown township, was born in Germany, February
24, 1847. He received a good education, which is the birthright of every child of
the Fatherland, and worked on the farm until he was eighteen years of age. He
emigrated to America in 1868, and sought in the new country the fortune he could not
reach in the land of his nativity. He located first in Stephenson county, Ill.,
where he found employment on farms, working by the month, and for his labor received
$22 per month. At this work he continued for three years, during which time he
managed to save up quite a little money, and then he rented a farm near Foreston,
Ill., which he conducted for a year. At the expiration of that time he located in
Butler county, Iowa, where he rented land and engaged in farming for seven years.
The territory of Dakota in 1878 was being rapidly populated by thrifty, pioneer
farmers, and our subject was one of them. He located in that year on what is now
section 27, Germantown township, Turner county homesteading 160 acres, which he
started in to break up and improve. He proved up and then sold out for $5,100,
afterwards purchasing 184 acres in sections 25 and 30 where he at present resides.
He started out in the battle of life empty handed to work by the month, but he
accumulated as he progressed without scattering, and by hard work, thrift and
economy has gained a competence and is now fairly well-to-do.

Mr. Janssen was married December 25, 1873, to Miss Hilke Miller, a native of
Germany, and they are the parents of six children, viz.: Bruno, Dana, deceased,
Lizzie, Rekee, Jacob and Stena. Mrs. Janssen died in 1892, and our subject
subsequently married Geeske Wolthuis, by whom he has one son, Herman. Politically he
is a Republican and a stanch supporter of that party’s principles.


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