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Admin : andy@aprevost.comFamille -- Prevost -- Family John James (Jack) Prévost
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- Gender : male
- Birth : 20 December 1860 (Paspébiac, Bonaventure Co., Québec,)
- Death : 03 March 1950 (Cloquet, Carlton Co., Minnesota, USA)
Individual notes- Catholic church records indicate Rosella Whittom as mother.
Immigrated to Cloquet, Carlton County, Minnesota, near Duluth in 1878. The 1920 Duluth Census lists his occupation as a farmer. The 1900 Knife Falls Township census states he Immigrated in 1880 and works in a machine shop. His obituary lists date of Immigration as 1882.
Entry from the Cloquet City Directory 1927-1928, Carlton County Farmers section (218-272):
Prevost Jno (Knife Falls) Cloquet 2
Death record indicates date of birth as December 28 1860 and lists his occupation as Ret Foreman, saw mill.
Obituary: March 10, 1950.
John (Jack) Prevost - survived by daughters Mrs Kleckner and Mrs August Roy of Cloquet, sons Ralph, Allen, Sam, Walter, Theodore, Lloyd and Shasta all of Cloquet, Lewis of Lewiston, Idaho, brothers Edmund, Joseph and Elias of Duluth, brother Philip of Paspebiac, sister Mrs Philip Voque of Paspebiac, sister Mrs Norman Day of Kelso, Wash, 18 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren.
At age 20, John left his birthplace to first do logging north of Ottawa before emigrating to the US. He more than likely boarded one of the many westbound flat-bottomed paddlewheelers that traversed the St. Lawrence Seaway back then.
On October 1881, John was processed through the immigration point at Port Huron, Michigan. He likely then travelled by train, first to St. Paul and then onto Cloquet, Minnesota. His fellow passengers were mostly Scandinavian immigrants headed for the lumber camps and mills in and around Cloquet.
Three years after having settled in Cloquet, John filed his first papers to become a citizen of the US. Naturalization records include his signature and notes the date as November 1, 1994. It is important to note that when a man became a citizen so did his wife and children. Shortly after that, John returned to Paspebiac for his bride-to-be.
John was a wagonmaker by trade at age 23. He and Anne (Annie) Roussy (age 19) were married on November 22 1884
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