Anton Klaus
Also known as: Tony Klaus
family confidence: 0 — not family / context
Of Jamestown, Dakota Territory. Named in the Jamestown Weekly Alert of 31 August 1883 (as "Tony Klaus") on the same hunting trip with John Vennum. The Klaus surname is in the user's associated-families list.
Facts
Each fact shows how sure the archive is of it (0–100) and the sources it rests on.
- Residence:
- Jamestown, North Dakota
| Date | Fact | Conf. | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1883-08-30 | event · 'Tony Klaus' in the hunting party bound for Spiritwood lake (Jamestown, North Dakota) 40 that this Tony is the Anton Klaus of the portrait; see summary. | 40 | 1883-08-31 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4 |
| 1883-09-13 | event · 'Tony Klaus packed his grip yesterday and took his departure for Fargo, under rumour charge of the Merrill house' (Fargo, North Dakota) Rests on a Jamestown Weekly Alert page in _inbox/ (vision transcription read 4 Oct 2026), not yet filed as an archive source, so no source id can be cited. Alert of 14 Sep 1883. Applies to Tony; 40 for this record. | 40 | |
| 1884 | description · Klaus hall, the Klaus house (a hotel) and 'Mr. Klaus' brick block' in Jamestown (Jamestown, North Dakota) Rests on a Jamestown Weekly Alert page in _inbox/ (vision transcription read 4 Oct 2026), not yet filed as an archive source, so no source id can be cited. Alerts of 25 Apr and 13 Nov 1884. Which Klaus is not stated. | 60 | |
| 1884-06 | name · 'Anton Klaus, Sr.' on the arrangements committee for the 1884 Fourth of July (Jamestown, North Dakota) Rests on a Jamestown Weekly Alert page in _inbox/ (vision transcription read 4 Oct 2026), not yet filed as an archive source, so no source id can be cited. Alert of 20 Jun 1884. | 75 | |
| 1885 | description · photograph: an elderly man in a bowler hat seated on a porch with a newspaper; printed caption only 'Stutsman County Memorial Museum' (Jamestown, North Dakota) The name, 'Prussia', 'Father of Jamestown' and the date come from Luke's file name, not from a printed caption. | 75 | ~1885 — Stutsman County Memorial Museum (Jamestown ND) |
Sources linking to this person
<25 — Namesake / flag / context — 2
- 1883-08-31 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4role: subject · identity 40 family confidence on this source: 0 · as printed: Tony Klaus
Identity: 'Tony Klaus' may be Anton Klaus Sr. or a son (an 'Anton Klaus, Sr.' is printed in 1884; Tony left for Fargo in Sept 1883).
- ~1885 — Stutsman County Memorial Museum (Jamestown ND)Anton Klaus, 'Father of Jamestown' — Stutsman County Memorial Museum portraitrole: subject · identity 75 family confidence on this source: 0 · as printed: Anton Klaus
Identity: Identified only by Luke's file name and the museum credit; the man shown is elderly, which fits the senior Anton Klaus.