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HISTORY OF CASS COUNTY ILLINOIS - 1915

Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.



Page 913

KRUSE, JACOB, is among the youngest of the enterprising farmers of Cass County, Ill., of whom the pages of this volume make mention, but if his merits are to be estimated and judged by the results of his few years of work on his own responsibility, he surely deserves a creditable place in its chapters. Although barely thirty-four years of age he has made himself well known as an industrious, enterprising and successful agriculturist, and as an upright and useful member of the community in which he lives. He ha spent his entire life within the limits of this county, and the people have had abundant opportunity to learn his good qualities and become familiar with the character of his work. No one has aught to say derogatory to him, and all his neighbors are ready with a word of commendation.

Jacob Kruse was born in Cass County, Ill., August 28, 1881, a son of Mathias and Sophia (Biehl) Kruse, the father a native of Switzerland, and the mother's birth taking place in Cass County. Of nine children born to his parents, Jacob was the sixth, and he remained with them during their lifetime. The mother died about 1894, and the father's death occurred in 1907. In boyhood, Jacob Kruse attended the Union district school a short time, and after his father's death worked the share of the home farm that was his portion. At length he sold out his interest, buying 150 acres in section 29, and 30, township 18, range 10, Cass County, which was partially improved, about twenty acres being pasturage, and the rest cultivated land. Mr. Kruse is engaged in general grain farming and is besides a stock raiser. All his undertakings have been attended with success.

On March 31, 1910, Mr. Kruse was married to Pearl Davis, born in Cass County, Ill., a daughter of Frank and Jane C. (Davis) Davis. They have one son, Carlos Jacob, born January 23, 1914. The religious connection of Mr. Kruse is with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. In politics he acts with the Democratic party.


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