JUNGERS, John - 1914

JUNGERS, HESS, POOLE, SURTZER

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HISTORY OF
Cherokee County
IOWA
VOLUME II
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY
1914
by Thomas McCulla

JOHN JUNGERS.

Since 1894 John Jungers has lived retired in Marcus, his period of leisure following many years of close connection with business interests of the city as a successful hotel keeper. He was born in Belgium, on the 17th of January, 1832, and is a son of Peter and Margaret (Hess) Jungers, also natives of that country. The father followed farming there and never came to America, dying in 1837. His wife survived him until 1845.

John Jungers was reared and educated in Belgium and remained in that country until he was twenty-one years of age. In 1853 he came to America and located in New York, where he remained two years. He then moved to Wisconsin and lived ten years among the Indians, after which he moved to Red Wing, Goodhue county, Minnesota, and turned his attention to farming. At the end of eleven years, in 1876, he came to Marcus, Iowa, and erected the first hotel in the town, conducting it for eighteen years thereafter. He managed his interests carefully and accumulated in time a comfortable competency, upon which he was enabled to retire from active life in 1894. He erected a comfortable house in the southeast part of the town and in this he has since resided, making it a hospitable meeting place for his many friends.

On the 2d of October, 1856, Mr. Jungers married Miss Annie Poole, a daughter of John B. and Elizabeth (Surtzer) Poole, natives of Belgium. The parents came to America and located in New York in 1845, remaining there for eleven years. They afterward moved to Wisconsin and thence to Minnesota, the father dying in the latter state in 1873. His wife survived him a number of years, passing away in 1894. Mr. and Mrs. .Jungers became the parents of twelve children, eight of whom are yet living, as follows: Elizabeth, Josephine, Barbara, Mary, Kate, Helen, Genevieve and Frank. John and Sylvester have passed away and two died in infancy.

Mr. Jungers is a member of the Methodist church and he always votes independently. During the thirty-seven years he has lived in Marcus he has taken an active part in public affairs, serving as mayor, on the town council and as a member of the school board. Now that he has reached the age of eighty-one he is enjoying a well earned rest, his period of leisure coming after many years of close and persevering labor.