Far more interesting than his brief moment as a Fortean.
Although it’s through-a-glass darkly.
Russel Stewart Jaque was born 6 June 1898 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Joseph R. and Mary M. (Stewart) Jaque—yes, to Mary and Joseph. The Jaque name was carried to America a couple of generations back from Switzerland. Mary and Joseph wed in 1897, the year she turned 18, and he 35. They seem to have split shortly thereafter. In 1900, Mary and Russel lived with her parents, as well as another city, in Kansas City. Both Mary and Joseph went on to remarry, Marry wedding Hadley G. Chamberlain, a potter, on Christmas day 1908, in Alameda, California. That’s where they were living at the time of the next census, too, in Oakland. Also in the family home was Mary’s father and her daughter, Ruth. Mary and Hadley—some four years her junior—would go on to have five children together, four girls and a boy..
At some point, in the 1910s, though, the family found its way to Pueblo, Colorado, where Hadley worked as a watchmaker in a foundry and Jaque became a printer with E. W. Frick. According to a 1919 notice in “Inland Printer,” Frick had only relatively recently started his company and seems to have been using it, in part at least, to train students in the art. (The 1940 census reported Jaque had only completed one year of high school, and so this may have been a form of vocational education for him.) It was from here, in Pueblo, that Jaque registered for the draft on 12 September 1918. He was tall and slender with brown hair and eyes, according to his registration card. The war would end in a couple of months, Armistice Day coming on 11 November 1918 and Jaque was not be drafted.
Although it’s through-a-glass darkly.
Russel Stewart Jaque was born 6 June 1898 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Joseph R. and Mary M. (Stewart) Jaque—yes, to Mary and Joseph. The Jaque name was carried to America a couple of generations back from Switzerland. Mary and Joseph wed in 1897, the year she turned 18, and he 35. They seem to have split shortly thereafter. In 1900, Mary and Russel lived with her parents, as well as another city, in Kansas City. Both Mary and Joseph went on to remarry, Marry wedding Hadley G. Chamberlain, a potter, on Christmas day 1908, in Alameda, California. That’s where they were living at the time of the next census, too, in Oakland. Also in the family home was Mary’s father and her daughter, Ruth. Mary and Hadley—some four years her junior—would go on to have five children together, four girls and a boy..
At some point, in the 1910s, though, the family found its way to Pueblo, Colorado, where Hadley worked as a watchmaker in a foundry and Jaque became a printer with E. W. Frick. According to a 1919 notice in “Inland Printer,” Frick had only relatively recently started his company and seems to have been using it, in part at least, to train students in the art. (The 1940 census reported Jaque had only completed one year of high school, and so this may have been a form of vocational education for him.) It was from here, in Pueblo, that Jaque registered for the draft on 12 September 1918. He was tall and slender with brown hair and eyes, according to his registration card. The war would end in a couple of months, Armistice Day coming on 11 November 1918 and Jaque was not be drafted.