Biography of John W. Jarvis

John W. Jarvis
Company F
1846?-After 1895

John (G.) W. Jarvis was born in May 1846 (?) in Ohio. His parents were born in Pennsylvania. His wife, Rebecca A. (Sherman?), was born in 1847 or 1848 in Ohio. Her parents were also born in Pennsylvania. Jarvis enlisted in Company F of the 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry in 1861 and was discharged the same year, probably due to illness. He, then, re-enlisted under the name Charles Smith in Company C of the 58th Illinois Infantry Regiment in 1863 and remained in that company until 1864, when he joined Company J of the 194th Ohio Infantry Regiment as a sergeant under his right name. This brave fellow was finally discharged November 3, 1865. He and Rebecca were married about 1878. John moved to Minnesota in 1880. On June 24, 1880, Reverend William Denley enumerated them in township 139/140 of Cass County.

John Jarvis was appointed first postmaster of the Manter Post Office in Cass County on October 4, 1880. He became postmaster of the Hubbard (formerly Manter) Post Office in Hubbard County on August 5, 1884. The Hubbard Post Office was changed to a rural route out of Park Rapids on February 25, 1965, and merged with Park Rapids on July 31, 1968. The November 30, 1882, Enterprise reports that Jarvis and Hinds threshed 40,000 bushels of grain for others that fall. John Jarvis was appointed county treasurer by the three commissioners on March 28, 1883, and served until January 1887. In August, 1882, he opened a new store and post office with Joseph Ramsey in Manter, later called Hubbard. In May 1885, Nelson Bement enumerated his household 49th in Hubbard. Living with the Jarvises in 1885 were Anna Campton, age 21, and Jennie Sherman, age 25. In 1890, M. M. Loring enumerated John 52nd in Hubbard. John moved to Park Rapids in September, 1894; John served as Judge of Probate Court from January 1893 until January 1895, and he served as county auditor from January 1895 until January 1897. On June 4, 1895, B. F. Wright enumerated John's family 23rd in Park Rapids.

A special thanks to The Hubbard County Genealogical Society for contributing this information.