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Isaac Newton Claussen

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Isaac Newton Claussen

Birth
Illinois, USA
Death
9 Apr 1928 (aged 87)
Armour, Douglas County, South Dakota, USA
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Armour, Douglas County, South Dakota, USA Add to Map
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Isaac grew up in Jefferson and Christian Counties, Illinois, son of Emil Henry and Sarah Frances (Lingo) Claussen. At age 20 he went West. He served as a scout for the army at Fort Laramie and may also have been a medic during the Indian Wars, possibly under the name of Jack Johnson. During this time he was wounded three times and captured by the Native Americans, then escaped.
In the late 1860's he is believed to have worked as a scout for wagon trains headed West and/or for the military, working out of Fort Laramie. He is said to have been fluent in Native American languages. In 1875, at age 35, he returned to Illinois and married Mary Towberman, age 15. Isaac and his young bride proceeded to Hartley, Iowa and Chillicothe, Missouri where they lived for a short time, before traveling by covered wagon to South Dakota. They homesteaded south of Armour for many years. During a drought and grasshopper invasion the family temporarily relocated to Minnesota, perhaps in 1899. They returned to their Douglas County homestead and moved into town about 1917. They operated a hotel in Armour until their deaths. Isaac and Mary had 16 children, including two sets of twins, and have hundreds of descendants throughout the Northwestern U.S. and Canada.
Isaac grew up in Jefferson and Christian Counties, Illinois, son of Emil Henry and Sarah Frances (Lingo) Claussen. At age 20 he went West. He served as a scout for the army at Fort Laramie and may also have been a medic during the Indian Wars, possibly under the name of Jack Johnson. During this time he was wounded three times and captured by the Native Americans, then escaped.
In the late 1860's he is believed to have worked as a scout for wagon trains headed West and/or for the military, working out of Fort Laramie. He is said to have been fluent in Native American languages. In 1875, at age 35, he returned to Illinois and married Mary Towberman, age 15. Isaac and his young bride proceeded to Hartley, Iowa and Chillicothe, Missouri where they lived for a short time, before traveling by covered wagon to South Dakota. They homesteaded south of Armour for many years. During a drought and grasshopper invasion the family temporarily relocated to Minnesota, perhaps in 1899. They returned to their Douglas County homestead and moved into town about 1917. They operated a hotel in Armour until their deaths. Isaac and Mary had 16 children, including two sets of twins, and have hundreds of descendants throughout the Northwestern U.S. and Canada.

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