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- EDWARD JANSEN, who for more than forty years has been closely identified with the agricultural interests of Outagamie county, is the owner of a fine farm of eighty acres situated in section 26, Buchanan township. He was born October 11, 1832, in Holland, and is a son of Jacob and Christina Jansen, who came to America about 1853, settling near the village of Little Chute, Outagamie county, where they purchased forty acres of land. Jacob Jansen built a log house in the woods, for which he and his sons cut the trees and hewed the logs, and on this property the father died in 1871, aged seventy-one years, having increased his holdings to sixty acres. The death of his widow occurred in 1898, when she had reached the advanced age of eighty-eight years, and both were buried in the Little Chute Cemetery. Edward Jansen was the second of a family of twelve children, and remained with his father until the age of twenty-five years, after which he spent about fifteen years in working for wages. At the end of this period he purchased his present tract from Henry Hewett, for whom he had worked about ten years, and he has continued to reside on this land ever since, a matter of upwards of forty years. He was married in 1855 to Miss Ann Dunn, who was born January 1, 1834, the next to the oldest of the five children of John and Catherine Dunn, natives of Ireland, who, about four years after their marriage in Canada, came to America and settled in Vermont. They resided there until 1854, in which year they came to Wisconsin, buying land in Clayton township, Winnebago county, and resided there until Mrs. Dunn's death, December 12, 1859, at the age of eighty-two years, at which time her husband came to live with Mr. and Mrs. Jansen, at whose home he died in 1864, aged eighty-one years. Both were buried in the Little Chute Cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Jansen have had five children: Edward, the eldest, of Deer Creek township, is married and has four children; Catherine, married Thomas Clune of Buchanan township and has three children; Emma, married John Doyle of Vandenbroek township; William of New London, is married and has seven children; and John, residing on the homestead with his father, is married and has one child. Mr. Jansen has sixty-five acres under cultivation, all fenced with barbed wire, and he carries on general farming and markets dairy products, hogs, cattle and some grain and hay. He is a democrat in his political views and he and his family are connected with the Catholic Church of Kimberly.
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1832 - 1916 (83 years)
