Jack dewitt biography
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Steve VanderVeen: The childhood and teen years of Jack DeWitt
Jack DeWitt had a big idea, but it started small.
He was born in 1911.
Jack dewitt biography
His parents, Dingeman DeWitt and Tryntje Elhardt, emigrated with their families from the Netherlands and settled in Grand Rapids in 1892. After they married, Dingeman worked in a furniture factory.
Possibly with the encouragement of Tryntje, who came from a farming family, Dingeman decided to try farming.
Even though he knew nothing about it, he rented farmland on both the east and west side of Grand Rapids and sold his fruits and vegetables at the Leonard Street Market.
Later, Dingeman changed his mind. In 1918, he and Tryntje and their seven children, including Jack, moved to the village of New Groningen on the west side of Zeeland, so that Dingeman could join Trintje's brother, Jacob Elhardt, at the Riverview Dairy.
There, Dingeman became the principal owner.
But Dingeman still had farming in his heart. So, in 1921, he sold the Riverview Dair