Elihu Jaquis

JAQUIS, STUART

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/6/2002 at 21:25:08

Elihu Jaquis has been a resident of Albion township since June, 1856. He first settled on section 12 in this township, on land he had entered two years previously. He now lives on section 3. He bought the first “forty” of his present farm of Samuel Leslie, and the remaining forty of David Davis.
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Mr. Jaquis was born in Clinton county, New York, in 1840, where he lived till nine years of age, when he removed to Illinois with his parents, Benjamin and Fanny Jaquis. His father went to California in 1852, where he lost his life by drowning. The parents of Mr. Jaquis had six children, five of whom are living – Elizabeth, who lives in Nebraska, Elihu, Ann, in Colorado, Mary, in Idaho, and Sarah, in Nebraska.
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Elihu married Mary Ann Stuart, born in Maine in 1843. Her parents were Charles and Margaret Stuart. They removed from Maine to Canada, and from thence to this county in 1855. Her father died in Webster City, February, 1881, where her stepmother still lives. Her own mother, Jane (Perry) Stuart, died in Canada.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jaquis have six children – Charles A., Benjamin H., Libbie M., William H., George L. and Hattie M. They lost two children – a son and daughter. Mr. Jaquis has eighty acres, and made all of his own improvements.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page: 421