Source: Greenwood Gleaner 7/4/1935

OBITUARY OF JACOB KLEIN

Jacob Klein was born in Germany June 9, 1851, and passed away at the home of his son, Emil, in the Town of Beaver, Clark County, June 20, 1935, aged 84 years and 11 days.

When a boy of only 20 years, Mr. Klein came to America and located in Wisconsin. He first worked in the Town of Rhine, Sheboygan, Co. Two years later he came to Clark County and began working at the Philip Rossman sawmill, in the Town of Beaver, on half a mile from the place of his death. He bought what is now known as the Stayton farm. After a time, he disposed of this farm and purchased another about three miles northeast of here. He traded that farm for this homestead, which became his home. Here he reared his children and lived the remaining forty-five years of his life. Only 15 acres of this land was cleared when it came into his possession, the remainder he cleared and brought under cultivation himself. The last lumber that he helped to saw at the Rossman mill was used in the building of this home.

He was united in marriage to Miss Amelia Brussow on May 12, 1881. To this union were born two boys, Richard, now of Waukesha, and Emil, Town of Beaver.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge and was laid to rest in the Pine Grove Cemetery by the members of that order.
Mr. Klein was one of the early settlers of Clark County. When he first came here, there were no roads to either Loyal or Greenwood. He lived to see the vast forests disappear, farm house and barns erected by the hundreds, villages and towns built, roads laid out, and the whole frontier wilderness change to a well organized farming community with schools, churches and all the other necessities of this modern age. He had his full share in all this. As a lumberman, he helped to produce the material for hundreds of homes and as a primitive farmer, he endured all the hardships and privations of pioneer life.

He leaves only his two sons, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild, his wife having preceded him in death Aug. 24, 1922.
He was a true friend, a good neighbor, a kind husband and father and was respected by all who knew him, most of his close friends have long since passed on.

Mr. Klein had unusually good health for a man of his age, until last fall. Since that time he has gradually failed still he was able to walk about until last Saturday when he became bed-fast. He sank to rest at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday morning, June 20, 1935, death being the result of a general breakdown cause by old age.