JACOB WASMER
Jacob Wasmer, a native of Switzerland, was born on the 25th of June, 1850, and attended school until sixteen years of age, when he learned the plaster and stone mason trade. When nineteen years of age he left his native land and came to America, landing at New York. He came directly to Iowa, and was employed in farming in Winneshiek county until 1873, when he came to Cass county, and in 1875, purchased land on section 20, Noble township. He has improved all his land, built a frame house of considerable size, and has planted a grove of shade and fruit trees. Mr. Wasmer was married in 1875, to Louisa Brennaman, a native of Ohio. They have two children -- Adeline Helena, and an infant, May Ettie. Mr. W. is one of the successful and enterprising farmers of the county, and by his great ability and industry, has made his fortune from the once wild prairie.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 680.
