Minne Hanzes DeYoung

GEDCOM Note

Immigration Records: Dutch in America, 1800s

Dejong, Minne Hanzes

Sex: Male

Family Status: Single male individual or singl e male parent

Birth Date: 09/27/1840

Birthplace: Frisian born

Civil Status Unmarried/single

Women in Household: Unknown

Children in Household: Unknown

Servants in Household: Unknown

Number in Household: Unknown

Family Type: Single

Religion: Nederlands-Hervormd

Major Occupational Category: Workers reporting occupations un identifiable or inadequately described

Social Occupational Category: Unskilled labor (dienstbode, die nstmeid, stalknecht, werkman, fabriek)

Specific Occupation: Dienstknecht-hired hand (male)

Emmigration Date: Unknown/Unknown/1882

Destination: USA-unidentified region

Village and Municipality: Wanswerd, Ferwerderadeel

Emigration Geographic: Neighbouring municipality of pla ce of birth

Dejong Menne

Family Status: Brother

Age: 22

Sex: Male

Occupation: Unknown

Status: Permanant sojourn

Ship Accommodations: Steerage

Port of Embarkation: Rotterdam

Vessel: Amsterdam (nasnc)

Destination: USA

Date of Arrival: 3/21/1882

City of Birth Holland

Microfilm Roll: 448

Ship Manifest Number: 325

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From the Carnation Family New, October 1920.

"CARNATION OLDEST EMPLOYEE"

Mr. Harry DeYoung (see photo) is the oldest employee in the Carnation Family. He was born in Holland on September 27, 1860, came to the Uni ted States in 1880, landing in New York, after which he went to Grand Rapids, Mich, where he resided until 1897. Getting the Western fever , he left Grand Rapids in 1897, and came to Kent, Washington. After l iving in Kent three years he started to work on March 1, 1900, for th e Pacific Coast Condensed Milk County, now the Carnation Milk Product s County Mr. DeYoung has been continuously in the employ of this comp any ever since. The length of time with this company will be 21 year s next March. Harry has not only been the longest in our employ, but everyone know him to be one of our best employees, no work is too hard , and he is always here. We are glad to report that Harry's health i s much improved since his recent illness, and we hope to see his smil ing face with us again soon. The fine looking girl in photo with Mr. DeYoung is his grandchild, the daughter of our popular pressroom forem an, John DeYoung.

From the Pacific Magazine, Seattle, Times, 2.2.1986 p.15

Kent's Carnation - when the hops failed, cows and cans took over by Pa ul Dorpat

In 1899, Elbridge A. Stuart left his modest grocery in Los Angeles an d ventured north looking for some business excitement. He found it i n Kent, Washington.

From its start as a platted town in the mid 1880s when the railroad fi rst came through, Kent was an ambitious suburb. At first its big cro p was hops, and so it took its name from the county Kent in southeast England, a hub of hop harvesting.

Within a year of his arrival in King County's Kent, Stuart's condensed -milk cannery was the town's main landmark. By 1900 the hop industry had petered out, ruined by bugs and blight, and the local dairy farmer s were ready to accommodate milkman Stuart.

Stuart made over a relatively new hotel into his cream-condensing plan t. The two story brick hotel was built on a rumor that Kent was to th e be site of the county's new race track. When the tracks never came , pioneer Ezra Meeker used the patronless hotel as a warehouse for hi s hops until Stuart checked in with his cows and cans.

This 1902 view of the converted brick hotel was shot by photographer A sahel Curtis, with his back to the Northern Pacific tracks. The view is northwest across the intersection of Meeker Street, in the foregrou nd, and First Avenue. On the left, two teams are pulling a wagon ful l of milk cans. The bright late-morning sky wears the era's most conv entional symbol of progress: a smokestack.

According to Kent's official historian, Rae Reitan (whose parents work ed in Carnation's Kent plant), Stuart named his milk after a cigar -- the Carnation Cigar. He eventually dropped the "Pacific Coast" from h is logo.

After labor troubles in Kent, Stuart moved his evaporators to the tow n of Tolt on the Snoqualmie River. The town gratefully responded by r enaming itself Carnation. There, on it scientific farms, the company raised a herd of Holsteins that regularly broke world records for mil k production. By the time Carnation was bought by Nestle in 1984, it was a world enterprise with annual sales of $3 million.

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Minne changed the spelling of de Jong to DeYoung at the request of hi s children who were teased at school.