Anton Klaus, 'Father of Jamestown' — Stutsman County Memorial Museum portrait

Summary

Photograph of Anton Klaus (Prussia-born German immigrant; the "Father of Jamestown" ND), standing on a porch in derby hat reading a newspaper. Caption "Stutsman County Memorial Museum" identifies the source institution. Klaus is already in the archive via the 1883-08-31 Jamestown Weekly Alert clipping (Klaus + Vennum hunting party signing the "Murphy pledge" temperance vow before going hunting at Spirit Lake). He was a contemporary of Patrick Murphy in Jamestown ND 1880s.

People

• Anton Klaus
  role: subject · family confidence: 0 not family

  Already in the archive via the 1883 hunting-party clipping. Not family — Jamestown civic figure of Patrick Murphy's 1880s milieu.

Places

• Jamestown, North Dakota (primary)
• Stutsman County, North Dakota (primary)

Story threads

• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Tags

• reference_image

Related sources

• 1883-08-31 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4
• 1884-11-04 — North Dakota, U.S., Naturalizations, 1873-1952 — Stutsman County Volume 2 — Declaration of Intent — Patrick Murphy, native of Ireland, b. 1858, arr. NY March 1882; filed Jamestown ND 4 Nov 1884