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JAEGER, Adam Francis, Sr.
Family History: http://home.comcast.net/~jaegerz/emigration.htm
JAEGER, Adam Francis. (Darmstadt, Germany, 1811--Dubuque, IA, Apr. 10, 1868). Adam Francis Jaeger was the first of the Jaegers to emigrate to Dubuque. With his wife, Margaret Miller' daughter, Agatha; and son, Adam Francis, Jr. traveled to New Orleans in 1839 and up the MISSISSIPPI RIVER to Dubuque where they settled in 1840. (1)
The family purchased land north of the city and originally lived on Main Street. Adam Francis Jaeger was in the grocery business for several years with the aid of his son who traveled with his father to learn business techniques. During the years 1857-1858 Jaeger represented the Fifth ward on the city council. (2)
Rudolph John Jaeger, the son of Francis M. Jaeger, Jr. and great grandson of Adams Francis Jaeger, Sr. married Edith O'Neill in 1910. They subsequently moved to San Diego, California and had four children before divorcing ten years later. He then married Alma Helen Koepke. (3)
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Source:
1. Burggraff, Mike. 2010 Update to the Bottles of Iowa 1846-1915. Fairfield, Iowa: Frontline Printing & Design
2. Oldt, Franklin. History of Dubuque County, Iowa. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1880, p. 815
3. email, Francis Ogilvie, May 10, 2021
Wagner, Robert A. "How the Jaegers Emigrated from Jugesheim, Hesse-Darmstadt to Dubuque, Iowa," http://home.comcast.net/~jaegerz/emigration.htm