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Henry C. Jaus
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Rev. Henry C. Jaus was born in Carver County, MN. His brothers started the Jaus farm in Sibley County. Henry became a pastor and served in many churches in IN and MN.

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  • Lyla Baur remembers Henry was involved with an orphanage in Chicagoa and the orphaned boy he brought into the lives of the extended Jaus family. He had some health issue after that (serving Bethany) and his head was permanently sideways. I think he ran an orphanage in Chicago area.


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Mr. Jaus was born at Hamburg , Carver county, Minnesota , January 21, 1865. He is a son of pioneer German parents, Martin and Catherine (Beck) Jaus, who came from their native country at an exceedingly early date and settled in what was then a frontier state. Before they settled in Minnesota they lived a short time in Canada , but believing the advantages possessed by "the states" greater than those presented by the Dominion, migrated across the border.

The elder Jaus was a farmer and cultivated his estate in Carver county until his death at the ripe age of sixty-six years. His wife died at the age of sixty-three, some time after her husband's death. They were the parents of nine children : Simon, Martin, Ann a, John, Martha, Alary, Henry C, George and Gottlieb.

Henry Jaus lived on his father's farm during his boyhood and experienced the life of a boy in the pioneer period. He secured his elementary education in the common schools of Carver county and attended a parochial school at Hamburg . Finishing his course in the parochial school, he decided to enter the ministry of the German Lutheran church, of which denomination his parents were staunch members. Accordingly he went to Springfield , Illinois , and entered the Concordia Theological Seminary at that city. He pursued his studies in theology at this institution for five years and then was graduated "cum laude" in the spring of 1892.

He was a careful and earnest student at the seminary and he took high rank among his fellow students. At the conclusion of his course he was well prepared to assume the duties of a pastor of a congregation.

His first charge after his graduation was at Tipton , Indiana . He went to that city and served as pastor of the church there for six years. He then received a call from Allen county. There were many members of the Lutheran denomination in Allen county and numbers in Washington township, but there was no church. Mr. Jaus was called for the purpose of organizing a congregation and launching a church. He was successful in this new field of labor, and organized the Bethlehem church and continued to serve it as pastor for the following six years.

During his pastorate the church thrived and members were added to it from time to time until it became an important religious body of the community. At the end of this period he was called to the pulpit of St. John's church in Preble township.

In accepting the call extended by the Preble township church Mr. Jaus found himself, in 1905, at the head of an aggressive and progressive church body. The building that was erected in 1873 was a substantial edifice and adapted to the needs of the congregation. In addition to the church building a handsome parsonage awaited him and a fine parochial school building that had been recently built at a cost of seven thousand dollars. The combined value of the real estate held by the church, including a teachers' home and twenty acres of land, was in the neighborhood of fifty thousand dollars. The church to which he had come was one that was hallowed by tradition. Since its organization by Henry Wyneken, more than a half century ago, it had been served by men whose names became famous throughout the county. Its former pastors had built the church up to its present standard, and no mean task confronted the new pastor to maintain these high standards of leadership and to further foster the growth of the church. The pastors since the organization of the church were: The Rev. Husmann, the Rev. Fritze, the Rev. W. Kolb, the Rev. Philip Wambsganss, the Rev. Traub, the Rev. H. F. C. Evers, the Rev. R. A. Bichoff and the Rev. C. F. W. Huge. Of the list but two are living at the present time. Under the charge of Mr. Jaus, however, the church has developed and has grown in membership. The present number of communicants is four hundred and fifty-eight and the parochial school has a large number of pupils.

Mr. Jaus was married at Springfield , Illinois , October 13, 1892, to Miss Ann a Paul, of Springfield , Illinois . She was born in Fort Wayne , Indiana , May 24, 1867, and is the daughter of Henry and Sophia Paul. Her parents died in Springfield . Mr. and Mrs. Jaus are the parents of two children: Latto and Clara. They are among the most highly respected people of the county and are a force for good in their community. <ref>http://debmurray.tripod.com/adamsco/adabioref-40.htm#hjaus</ref>

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I don’t wish to digress to far into other branches of the Jaus family, but believe Henry Jaus deserves special mention. He is one of the ancestors who I knew nothing about. I hadn’t realized there were pastors on the Jaus side of the family. I know this doesn’t make him anything more special than anybody else. It is just another interesting tie.

Henry is a brother of my great-grandpa Martin Jaus. For clarity, remember this Martin Jaus, his brother Simon, and John Bentz are the ones who moved to Sibley County, MN.

He was born in 1865, soon after his parents settled in Carver County, MN. Henry was educated in the Missouri Synod school system and graduated from the Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield IL, in 1892. Two decades later my grandfather, Alfred Baur, attended and graduated from this same school.

27 year old Henry returned to Springfield later in the year to marry 25 year old Anna Paul. She had been born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We will find other family ties to the Missouri Synod school in Fort Wayne.

He began his ministry at St. John's Lutheran Church in Tipton, Indiana (church organized in 1859). During his pastorate (1892-1898) the name of the church was changed to Emanuel Lutheran Church. The renovated original log church still exists and is located on the current church property.

Emmanuel’s church history says it this way (thanks Steve Kleist). “In the spring of 1892, St. John's Lutheran Church called a young candidate to be its pastor, H.C. Jaus, a graduate of Springfield Seminary. He began his work in the fall of that year. He was the man who, under God's gracious guidance, kept things going and did much especially with the youth, to build up a healthy parish which flourished to the glory of God. Jaus was a Minnesota farmer's son, an ambitious young man who wanted to do more work than St. John's could give him. He began looking around for scattered Lutherans, north and east of the city of Tipton, and succeeded in gathering a number of families whom he invited to a religious service in the City Council Chamber. This was the beginning of Emanuel Lutheran Church.”

Special note is made in the church’s history that Henry preached a morning dedication service in German. Somebody else preached the afternoon service in English. I have noticed that those people with connections to IL adapted to English more quickly than their MN counterparts. Jacob Baur never did learn to preach in English...

Fort Wayne, Indiana, holds a prominent place in the history of the Missouri Synod. This is where 16 pastors met in 1846 to organize a new synod. In our current day of non-stop flights from coast to coast, travel is often underappreciated. The 300 mile trip from St. Louis to Fort Wayne took 4 days travel by train. Many made the 150 mile trip from Chicago on horseback or by wagon (about a 30 hour trip). Some traveled by foot.

These men drew up the draft copy of the new synod’s constitution which was adopted one year later in Chicago, IL. The new synod’s name was Synod of Missouri Ohio, and Other States. Decades later the name would be changed to the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, We often refer to it as LCMS or just Missouri Synod. On a side note, we see other synods such as the Buffalo Synod and Pennsylvania Synod mentioned in connection with the Missouri Synod.

I can’t help but make some comparisons between the early Indiana churches to the early churches where Jacob Baur and Paul Hinderer served in MN. In 1848 one of the pastor’s annual salary was $50 (approximately 14 cents a day). By comparison, mill workers and others were making 50 cents per day.

Some of the churches were large. Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne was enlarged to seated 1200! One church was able to offer its pastor a salary of $350 even though the Civil War was raging and crops were failing. The $350 salary was over twice what Paul Hinderer would receive at his La Crescent, MN congregation in 1886. He was paid $125 (about 3 cents a day) while simultaneously serving three congregations!

Even though this area was made up of German immigrants, the change from German services to English came much more quickly in the Missouri Synod churches; some as early as 1846. Schools were begun after the formation of a church in MN. The opposite was often true in Fort Wayne, IN. Schools were formed first and then the church. This would be true of Suburban Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Rev. Henry Jaus was the first pastor/teacher.

Henry came from Tipton County in 1898 to organize the new congregation. He taught school and held church services in the school building the first four years. In 1902 a new, brick church was built which seated 250 people. Henry continued his ministry at Bethlehem until 1904. (to be continued)

Note: A more complete history of the Missouri Synod in Fort Wayne can be found in the Cowtales Facebook document section.

I hadn’t planned on doing an in depth study of Henry Jaus. Neither had I planned on doing a study of the history of the Missouri Synod. I just wanted to recognize Henry’s place in our family history. Like so many things in this project, one thing leads to another. It has been a good thing though.

I knew the Missouri Synod was a part of my heritage. Mom grew up Missouri Synod. My grandpa Alfred Baur, and other relatives, were schooled in the Missouri Synod school system. Many of my relatives belong to Missouri Synod churches. This has been a study on Henry Jaus, but documenting his life has turned into an important study of a broader topic.

Henry moved to Bingen, Preble Township, Adams County, Indiana in 1905. He served at St. John’s Lutheran church until 1915. This was an “old” congregation. It was formed by a small group of German pioneer families in the early 1840’s and is located only six miles south of his previous parish in Fort Wayne.

A church history I found of the congregation reads “Since her beginning, this congregation has been dedicated to supporting families in the teaching of children through St. John Lutheran School.

In accepting the call extended by the Preble township church Mr. Jaus found himself, in 1905, at the head of an aggressive and progressive church body.

The building that was erected in 1873 was a substantial edifice and adapted to the needs of the congregation. In addition to the church building a handsome parsonage awaited him and a fine parochial school building that had been recently built at a cost of seven thousand dollars. The combined value of the real estate held by the church, including a teacher's' home and twenty acres of land, was in the neighborhood of fifty thousand dollars.

The church to which he had come was one that was hallowed by tradition. Since its organization by Henry Wyneken, more than a half century ago, it had been served by men whose names became famous throughout the county. Its former pastors had built the church up to its present standard, and no mean task confronted the new pastor to maintain these high standards of leadership and to further foster the growth of the church.

Under the charge of Mr. Jaus, however, the church has developed and has grown in membership. The present number of communicants is four hundred and fifty-eight and the parochial school has a large number of pupils.” (note that the reference made to Henry Jaus is in the present tense).

Mom faintly remembers Henry. She recalls “Progressive to me means that he was willing to go in a new direction away from tradition...... Even tho I don't remember much about him, I think that would fit his character.”

Henry would next serve Trinity Lutheran Church, Fairfield Township, Swift Co., MN. We will hear more about him, and the orphaned boy he brought into the lives of the extended Jaus family later.

References <references/> Family Histories: Harms -- Jaus -- Lieske -- Hinderer -- Baur --

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