For
Muscatine County Iowa
1911
| Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1911 | |
Source: History of Muscatine County Iowa, Volume II, Biographical, 1911, page 516
JOHN H. JAKEMAN....John H. Jakeman, a well known and enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of Fulton township, still lives on the place where his birth occurred, his natal day being January 13, 1866. His parents, Frank and Margaret ( Barth ) Jakeman, both of whom were natives of Germany, crossed the Atlantic to the United States in 1850. The father worked as a farm hand by the month for several years and was then married, after which he purchased land of his own, being successfully engaged in its cultivation until the time of his retirement in 1890. The last seventeen years of his life were spent in well earned ease at Blue Grass, Iowa, where his demise occurred on the 8th of March, 1907, when he had attained the age of seventy-four years. At that time he owned three hundred and ninety acres of well improved land in Fulton township and in his passing the community felt that it had lost one of its most substantial and esteemed citizens. His widow, who still survives him, has reached the age of seventy-six years.They were the parents of eleven children, as follows : Carrie, the wife of James Dougherty, of Chicago ; Chrissie, who gave her hand in marriage to John Hough and resides near Denver, Colorado ; Andrew, living in Muscatine county, Iowa ; Fred, who is deceased ; John H., of this review ; Minnie M., who lives on the old homestead farm ; Agnes, the wife of Dr. Vandervier, of Blue Grass, Iowa ; Frank, who makes his home in Dallas county, Iowa ; Elizabeth, who died in infancy ; Ella, who passed away when nine years old ; and Harry, who died at the age of five years.
When John H. Jakeman had attained his majority he started out as an agriculturist on his own account, wisely choosing as a life work the occupation to which he had been reared. Renting the old homestead place, he has since then been busily engaged in its operation and in connection with the tilling of the soil also feeds and raises stock. He now owns an eighth interest in his father's estate of three hundred and ninety acres, which is still undivided. He has brought the fields under a high state of cultivation and improvement through the utilization of modern and progressive methods of agriculture and has gained a gratifying measure of success in his farming operations.
In politics Mr. Jakeman is a republican but the honors and emoluments of office have no attraction for him. Fraternally he is identified with the Modern Woodmen of America at Blue Grass, while his religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Presbyterian church. In the community where his entire life has been spent he enjoys the regard and esteem of a host of friends.
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