Bio: Brands, Jacob X. (1881)

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Surnames: Brands, Brand, Bacheler, Rose

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin, Marathon County, Wis. (1881) page 557

Jacob X. Brands, Wausau, was born in Knowlton, Warren Co., N.J., March 11, 1818, and moved to Galena, Ill., in 1846; in hotel business there for two years; afterward kept what was known as the "Four Mile House", between Galena and Hazel Green. In 1850, he came to Grand Rapids, Wis., and engaged in lumbering for two years; then built the "Half Way House" between Grand Rapids and Plover, keeping it for two years. He was then Under Sheriff at Plover for one year, and kept the Twin Island House at what is now known as Knowlton for two years, when he returned to Grand Rapids, built the Magnolia House and kept it for two years. In 1859, he returned to Plover, and kept the American House for two years. He was then for two years United States Marshal for the Northern District of Wisconsin, with headquarters at Plover. The Winter of 1863 he passed in Washington, D.C. He then engaged in farming near Plover for two years; visited in the East and South about two years; kept the Falls City House at Mosinee, Wis.; traveled through the West with a team; was weigh-master for a coal company at Moingona, Boone Co., Iowa, for two years, and was then foreman of the Northern Division of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, from Ashland, Wis., to Penokee, Wis.

Mr. Brand came to Wausau in 1874, and was in real estate business the first year; Justice of the Peace from 1876 to the Spring of 1880; farming until 1881, and now advertising agent of land department of the Wisconsin Valley Division of the C, M & St. P. R'y. Mr. Brand was married in Plover, in June, 1855, to his second wife, Jane Bacheler, who died in April, 1866, leaving four children - David H., Jacob I., William G., and Belle. Mr. Brand has one daughter, Mary, by a former marriage. He was married in August, 1876, to his present wife, Anna M. Rose, who was born in Connecticut.