Jacob Fredrick Jagger was born October 1, 1848 in Mecklenburgh, Germany, and came to the United States in 1856. Jacob married Josephine Schepperle and had five sons and one daughter. He lived on a homesteaded claim near Faith, South Dakota.
Bids were received for constructing sidewalks around the Market House, from Michael O’Brien, C. A. Olson, J. A. Green and Jacob F. Jagger, but were of such a nature as to require classification before they can be properly considered, and were therefore referred to the City Engineer for report. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Thursday Morning, September 30, 1880, Volume III, Number 274, Page 2)
Jacob F. Jagger to Henry Villard, block 91 in Kittson’s addition, $12,000. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Sunday Morning, March 18, 1883, Volume V, Number 77, Page 2)
The name of this corporation shall be the Gervais Lake Syndicate. The general nature of the business of this corporation shall be the buying, owning, leasing, platting, improving, selling, mortgaging and dealing in lands, tenements and hereditaments, and real, personal and mixed real estate in the state of Minnesota. The principal place for the transaction of the business of this corporation shall be in the city of St. Paul, Ramsey county, in said state of Minnesota. The names and places of residence of the persons forming this corporation are as follows, viz: Andrew Schoch, Aaron Herz, John H. Schurmeier, Adam Beyer, Rudolph Martini, Frederick Althen, Emanuel Good, Jacob V. Wilson, Ferdinand Knauft, William F. Fifield, Jacob F. Jagger, Henry F. Wessel, all residing in the city of St. Paul, Ramsey county, Minnesota. (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Monday Morning, May 17, 1886, Volume VIII, Number 137, Page 7)
MERCHANTS [hotel visitors] - …J. L. Jagger, Wrenshall, Mo. [Minnesota]… (The Saint Paul Daily Globe, Sunday Morning, January 8, 1899, Volume XXII, Number 8, Page 10)
Former Brick Manufacturer supplied Material for Building Three State Capitols. Jacob Fred Jagger, 82 years old, a resident of St. Paul for more than 60 years, died Saturday at his home 305 West Central Avenue after an illness of ten days. Mr. Jagger was in the brick business here for more than 40 years and made brick used in building three State capitols. He was born in Germany and came to this country with his parents at the age of 8 years. The family first settled in Kingston, N.Y. but later moved to Mankato where Mr. Jagger spent his boyhood. He started his first brickyard in Mankato, and later opened one in St. Paul when he moved here in 1867.
He manufactured brick here for 20 years and then opened a brickyard in Duluth which he operated for nineteen years before he retired about 28 years ago. During his many years in the brick business, Mr. Jagger manufactured brick which was used in the old St. Paul Court House and State House combined in the old Capitol and finally in the present State Capitol. Survivors are three sons, Charles, Walter O., and Russell J. Jagger and one daughter Lilly M. Jagger, all of St. Paul. Funeral Services will be held in the Ninth Presbyterian Church, 327 Edmund Street, at 2 PM Monday. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery. Mr. Jagger was a member of St. Paul Lodge No. 3 A. F. and A. M., and Lodge No. 2 I.O.O. F. (Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Sunday, October 12, 1930)