- ROY JABERG, the popular and hustling proprietor and manager
of the Monroe Steam Laundry,
- at Monroe, Green county, was born in New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas
county, Ohio, September 6, 1872, a son of Frederick and Eliza
(MOSER) JABERG, the former born in Tuscarawas county, Ohio, and
the latter in Canton Glarus, Switzerland. They were the parents
of two children, Roy and his older sister, Cora, who is the wife
of W. R. SHARP, of New Philadelphia, Ohio.
- Frederick JABERG was a farmer up to the outbreak of the Civil
war, when he enlisted as a private
- in the Union army, and bore himself as became a valiant soldier
fighting for his country. After the war he returned home and
ran a fire engine until his death in August, 1885, at the age
of forty-six years. In politics he was a Republican, and in religious
belief, a Methodist. He and another man built a church at Mineral
City, Ohio, and he, as is also his wife, who is still surviving
and has her home in New Philadelphia, was active in church work.
- Jacob JABERG, the father of Frederick and the grandfather
of Roy, was a native of Switzerland.
- Coming to America when he was quite young, he settled in
Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, when it was infested with the Indians,
and engaged in the vocation of farming, becoming locally prominent.
He was the father of thirteen children, and died in Ohio at an
advanced age. Jacob MOSER, the father of Eliza, whose name appears
above, was also a native of Switzerland, and came to America
at an early day, locating in Tuscarawas county. He was a tailor
by trade, and was well established in business at New Philadelphia,
where he died at a great age, the father of eight children.
- Roy JABERG was reared in New Philadelphia, and when he was
sixteen years old, left the public
- school to enter a machine shop for the purpose of learning
the trade. This he did, and for a number of years was a machinist
of good standing, working in several shops. In July 1899, Mr.
JABERG came to Monroe, and bought the steam laundry, which he
has operated to the present time with marked success.
- Mr. JABERG was married May 10, 1894, to Miss Huldah HOEHN,
a daughter of Henry and
- Eliza (KATERLY) HOEHN. To this union have come a son and
a daughter, both of whom are now deceased. Mr. JABERG is a Methodist,
while his excellent wife was reared in the Lutheran faith. He
belongs to the order of the Knights of Pythias, and is a Republican.
- Henry HOEHN, mentioned above, was a native-born Swiss, and
his wife, Eliza (KATERLY)
- HOEHN, was born in Ohio. They had a family of four children:
Huldah, who is now Mrs. JABERG; Albert, a commercial traveler;
Ida, who is Mrs. Edward BENGSTON, of Freeport, Ill.; and Sophie,
who married J. KARLEN, of Monroe. Henry HOEHN came to Wisconsin
in 1845 with the company who settled New Glarus. During the Civil
war he enlisted in the Union army, and became captain of his
company. Serving throughout the war, he returned to Wisconsin
at its conclusion, and started a clothing store at Monroe, and
built the block where DISCHER & SCHNEIDER are now found.
For the past few years he has led a retired life. With his wife
he belongs to the German Lutheran Church.
- Mr. JABERG is full of enthusiasm and energy, and has already
built up a fine trade, which has
- come partly as the result of his skill as a workman, but
also from the desire to please his patrons.
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; pp. 917-918.
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- Courtesy of Carol.
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