LAKEFIELD -- The A.P. Rose edition of Jackson County History has a biography of an enterprising man.
John C. Lueneburg was born in Germany in 1858. He migrated to the U.S. in 1871 with his father and mother, Ludwig and Lena (Fischbach) Lueneburg. They first went to Missouri and, in 1873, migrated to Fillmore, Minn., where he lived until coming to Jackson with his parents in 1878.
Lueneburg had studied the carpentry and continued to pursue the trade while working on his father's farm in Rost Township, Section 10. He took a homestead in Section 4 of Rost, when he attained majority. He farmed until moving into Lakefield in 1885 and operating a furniture store, continuing carpentry as well.
He bought a small tract of land on the shores of Heron Lake (Section 30 of Heron Lake Township), where he erected a house. He lived there in the summer months and in town during the winter.
Lueneburg had married Miss Mary Gabriel on Jan. 8 1883, and they had four children.
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The thing that brought him to my attention was his business of a lake resort -- and his two launches that were operated on Heron Lake for pleasure of his resort patrons and others.
H. Ed Carlson is an employee of the Jackson County Historical Society.
