Bio: Jahn, Charles F. (History - 1851)

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Surnames: JAHN KORP HORN

----Source: 1891 History of Clark and Jackson Co., Wisconsin, pg. 374-375

CHARLES F. JAHN, of section 34, Clark County, was born in Saxony, Germany, June 1, 1851, the son of Gottlieb Jahn, a native of the same country. He brought his family to the United States in 1852, settling in the woods eight miles from Sheboygan, where he cleared a large farm. He remained there many years, but subsequently sold it for $10,500, and is now retired and living in the city. He was the father of eight children: Theresa, Pauline, Edward, Charles, Gustav, Louise, Ida and Johnadohn. Our subject's mother died several years ago, and the three last named children are by a second wife.

Charles F. was educated in the common and private schools of Sheboygan County. In 1864 the family removed to Rockland, on Lake Superior, in Upper Peninsula, Michigan, but the father returned in 1867. In 1869 Mr. Jahn came to De Pere, Wisconsin, where he worked in an iron blast furnace until the fall of 1878, when he came to this county, settling on his present farm. He owns 160 acres of good land, sixty acres of which is cleared. He has worked in the pineries most of the winters since coming to this State.

Mr. Jahn was married January 31, 1875, to Louise Korp, a daughter of Edward and Johanna (Horn) Korp, of Maple Grove, Wisconsin. They have had four children, three of whom are now living: Emma, William and Caroline. Mr. Jahn was Assessor of his county four years, and was chairman of the board one year. Politically he is a Democrat, and religiously a member of the Lutheran Church.