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Jacob Daum was born in Prussia and immigrated to North America, accompanied by his sister Matilda and her husband August Leistiko and their children Albert, Olga, and Marie, August's brother and sister Fred and Matilda, Matilda's husband John Henschel and their two sons Wilhelm and Carl. They travelled from Volhynia, Russia to Hamburg, Germany where they boarded the S.S. Rhaetia. They arrived at Ellis Island, New York, United States on February 29, 1892. (View the original manifest of the ship SS Rhaetia. For those who are interested in the history of Germans in Russia, and are looking for clues as to why the Leistiko's decided to immigrate, this web page contains some history, and gives references to many other relevant sources of information).
Mary Natalia Leistiko, daughter of Jan and Luisa Leistiko, was born in 1875. Mary immigrated with her parents, and her brother Fred's fiance, Augusta Bleich, in 1892. Apparently Jacob and Mary married in North Dakota, as they had at least their first 2 children there.
According to the recollections of their son, Jacob A. Daum, they eventually "squatted" on a piece of property on the Missouri river near Glasgow, Montana, in an area known as Second Point. The ranch was on the river bottom and included a lot of high ground. The bottomland was hay meadow, while the hilly area was pasture. Jacob built their first home out of cottonwood logs. Jacob and his brother-in-law Fred also built a little log house for Mary's and Fred's parents, Jan Frydrek Leistikow and his wife Luiza, near the Missouri river where Fred and Jan fished. They sent their catch once a week to Glasgow with the mailman. Jan made a large wooden box with many holes for water to flow through and put the fish in it so they would stay alive until time to send them to market.
Jacob and Fred worked on many projects together. After the government opened the bench land up for homesteading, in 1916, Fred and Jacob bought a section (640 acres) of bench land, each owning half. In addition to fishing, Jacob ran around 300 head of cattle and 50 head of horses on the open range. Their brand was the LazyA-D.
Jacob and Mary had the following children:
| Adam Edward Daum | Born August 17, 1895 in Minot, North Dakota |
| Jacob A. Daum | Born in 1896 in Gras Forks, North Dakota |
| Henry E. Daum | Born in June 1898. |
| Ernest Daum | Born in 1900? |
| Rose Daum | Born June14, 1902. |
| William "Bill" Daum | Born August 8, 1904. |
| Frank Daum | Born January 9, 1908. |
| Laura Daum | Born January 9, 1908. |
| Mary Francis Daum | Born November 26, 1912. |
| Margaret Daum | Born January 22, 1914. |
| James Arthur Daum | Born June 26, 1919. |
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