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in 1904 he came to Council Bluffs, where he has since lived retired, enjoying well earned ease. His life has been one of untiring activity and enterprise and thus he acquired a handsome competence, enabling him now to live in honorable retirement.
On the 4th of October, 1853, Mr. Shively was married to Miss Terresa Hayden, a daughter of James and Elenor (Hayden) Hayden, who though of the same name were not related. The marriage was celebrated at St. Mary's church in Calvary, Marion county, Kentucky. Mrs. Shively was educated in the convent there. Her father was a physician but practiced only among his friends and neighbors, devoting much of his time to farm- ing and to the cooperage business. Mr. and Mrs. Shively traveled life's jour- ney together for more than a half century and were then separated by the death of the wife in Council Bluffs on the 26th of April, 1907. She was a communicant of St. Francis Xavier Catholic church and was a lady of many excellent traits of character.
Sarah Elenor Shively, the eldest daughter of the family, was born May 28, 1855, in Marion county, Kentucky, was educated at Calvary Academy, and was married in Sioux City, Iowa, March 27, 1871, to Samuel Agnew Anderson, a son of Robert and Dorcas Ann Simms (Hopkins) Anderson. He was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1845, and for eighteen years was yardmaster for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad at Council Bluffs. He was killed while on duty by a train November 30, 1887. Mrs. Anderson is a member of the Degree of Honor in the Ladies of the Macca- bees. Her husband was a Mason and was buried with Masonic honors. Mrs. Anderson is a trained nurse by profession and is now acting as her father's housekeeper. Her son, William R. Anderson, born in Sioux City, July 5, 1872, was educated in the common schools of Council Bluffs and is at present engaged in railroad work in Waco, Texas, and is a member of the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen. Samuel E. Anderson, the second son of Mrs. Sarah E. Anderson, was born March 21, 1878, in Council Bluffs. He was educated in the public schools and on the 11th of June, 1907, married Clara Chesnut. the daughter of William Chesnut, of Omaha. He is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen and of the Royal Highlanders.
Susan Ann Shively, the second daughter of William T. Shively, was born in Marion county, Kentucky, September 10, 1856, and died on the 8th of December of that year. Mary Josephine Shively, born April 14, 1858, died February 27, 1863.
William Thomas Shively, Jr., born in Taylor county, Kentucky, August 11. 1860, lives at Norfolk, Nebraska. He married Rosa Hershiser, of Water- loo, Iowa, a daughter of Henry Hershiser, and their children are May, Ruth, Jacob M., Louise and Glen. William T. Shively, Jr., is an engineer for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, and socially is connected with the High- landers, the Maccabces, and the O. E. S.
Richard Columbus Shively, born in Taylor county, Kentucky, August 3, 1862, lives in Council Bluffs and is a steamfitter for the Union Pacific Rail- road Company at its shops in Omaha, Nebraska. He was educated in the schools of Sioux county, Iowa, and married Katie Belle Jones, a daughter
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of William and Sarah Jones, of Council Bluffs. The children of this mar- riage are Lawrence Ray, an electrician; Sarah Clara Fay, Franklin Emanuel, and Harry William.
John B. Shively, born in Taylor county, Kentucky, May 1, 1865, acquired a public-school education and married Clyde Fullington at Denison, Texas. He died February 2, 1904, and his wife in 1905, leaving two children, Gladys and Brent. John B. Shively in his active business career was a conductor and he belonged to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, while his wife was connected with the auxiliary of the latter order.
James Hayden Shively, the next member of the family of William T. Shively, was born near Avoca, Iowa, November 4, 1867, and was educated in the rural schools. For several years he was a stationary engineer and is now engaged in the automobile business in Omaha, Nebraska. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Stationary Engineers Union. He wedded Stella Jane Smith, a daughter of O. F. Smith, at Center- ville, South Dakota, and they have two sons-Roy and Oscar.
George Edward Shively, born in Sioux county, Iowa, April 18, 1871, is a motorman on the electric line between Council Bluffs and Omaha and lives in the former city. His fraternal relations are with the Modern Wood- men of America, the Woodmen of the World and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Bertha Alice, born in Sioux county, July 13, 1873, and educated in Council Bluffs, was married June 27, 1900, to Frederick George Loper, a son of Louis and Ellen (Roach) Loper, of this city. Mr. Loper is engaged in the Rock Island train service at Council Bluffs.
Frances E. Shively, born December 15, 1875, in Sioux county, died July 28, 1879.
Estella Gertrude, born in Lemars, Iowa, March 25, 1878, was educated at Chadron, Nebraska, and Sioux City, Iowa, and taught school in Nebraska for five years. On the 16th of May, 1899, she became the wife of Edmund Joseph Gallagher, a son of John and Mary (McCaffrey) Gallagher, natives of Ireland and Scotland respectively. They came to America in early life and Mr. Gallagher, who was a tailor at Galena, Illinois, made the first uniform ever worn by General U. S. Grant, at the breaking out of the Civil war. His son Edmund was born at Galena, September 2, 1873, and there began his education. Following the removal of the family to the west in 1883 he resided at different points in Nebraska and Iowa. He engaged in merchandis- ing and in railroading prior to locating in Council Bluffs in 1904. and at the present writing he is engine inspector for the Illinois Central Railroad. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and the Ancient Order of United Workmen, and he and his wife are communicants of the Catholic church. They have one child, Frances Irene.
Francis Jesse Shively, born October 3, 1881, near Lemars, Iowa, and educated in the Nebraska public schools, was married in 1904 to Emma Koche. of Norfolk, Nebraska, and they have two children, Lester and Ralph. The
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father is manager of a telephone company at Windom, Minnesota, and is a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
Mr. Shively was a democrat until 1896 but he now casts an independent ballot. Ever since going to Council Bluffs he has lived retired, deriving a good income from his properties and money otherwise invested. He lives at No. 3256 Avenue A, and is well known in the city, a life of activity, integrity and honor gaining for him the respect and confidence of all with whom he has been associated in every community.
SAMUEL MCCULLOUGH.
Samuel Mccullough, a resident farmer living in Layton township, was born in County Down, Ireland, on the 14th of May, 1859. His parents were Hugh and Sarah (McKee) Mccullough. The father spent his entire life in Ireland, his native land, where he devoted his attention to farming, passing away when about seventy-one or seventy-two years of age. In 1882 Mrs. Mc- Cullough came to the United States and made her home with her sons, who had preceeded her to this country. She died in 1906, when about ninety years of age. The family numbered ten children but only five are living: Alexander and John, who are residents of Chicago; William and Hugh, who are living in England; and Samuel, of this review.
In the public schools Samuel Mccullough acquired his education and at the age of nineteen crossed the Atlantic, being the first of the family to come to the new world. Making his way into the interior of the country he settled at Henry county, Illinois, where he worked by the month as a farm hand for five years. In 1883 he continued his westward journey to Iowa and established his home in Shelby county, purchasing one hundred and sixty acres of land five miles north of Marne, where he began farming on his own ground. For eleven years he resided on that farm and then took up his abode in the town of Marne, where he engaged in the grain and live-stock business. In 1893 he removed to Pottawattamie county and settled on his present farm on section 23, Layton township, having purchased it the year before. It comprises two hundred and forty acres of rich and productive land which is under a high state of cultivation, and in connection with tilling the soil he raises cattle, being an excellent judge of stock 'so that he is able to make judicious purchases and profitable sales.
In 1881 Mr. Mccullough was married to Miss Sarah Pritchard, a daugh- ter of Henry Pritchard, who was a promient farmer of Henry county, Illinois, and is now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. McCullough have six children: Jesse Wesley, at home; Mary Gertrude, a stenographer in Omaha, Nebraska; Arthur Clyde, a pharmacist in Belmont, Iowa; Roy Dewitt, of Berkeley, California; and Herbert and Raymond, both at home.
Mr. Mccullough is a republican in politics and though he firmly believes in the principles of the party he has never been an office seeker. He belongs to the Presbyterian church of Marne and affiliates with Grove lodge, No. 492,
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A. F. & A. M., of Marne, and also with Marne lodge, No. 218, A. O. U. W. Although he is one of the more recent arrivals in the county, he has already demonstrated his right to be ranked with the energetic and prosperous agri- culturists of his community.
JOHN HAMMER.
John Hammer is a retired contracting mason of Council Bluffs, whose skill and ability in the line of his chosen calling is manifest in many of the earlier and more substantial business houses and residences of the city. He has now passed the eighty-third milestone on life's journey and a review of his career shows that he has lived worthily, commanding the respect and confidence of his fellowmen.
His birth occurred in Germany, on the 3d of October, 1824, and he was in his fifth year when brought to America in 1829, the family home being established in Elyria, Ohio. There he was reared and educated, and in March, 1855, he became a resident of Council Bluffs. More than a half century has since come and gone and the small town to which he made his way has become a city of large commercial and industrial importance. For many years he figured as one of its enterprising and successful business men, carry- ing on business as a contracting mason, in which connection he erected many of the older business houses and residences of the city. Much important work was entrusted to him and he continued as a contractor of Council Bluffs until 1895, when he retired permanently from active business life. He had always been faithful to the terms of a contract, reliable in every business transaction, and diligent and industrious in carrying on his work, and the years brought to him a gratifying measure of success.
While in Elyria, Ohio, in 1849, Mr. Hammer was married to Miss Mary J. Packard, who died in 1895, leaving two daughters: Mary E., now the widow of David Gray ; and Clara M., the wife of H. Schicatanz. On the 21st of June, 1903, he married Mrs. R. D. Amy, who bore the maiden name of Mary E. Edwards and was born in Liverpool, England, coming to this coun- try with her widowed mother, who resided in St. Louis for several years. In 1851 Mrs. Hammer became a resident of Council Bluffs and three years later gave her hand in marriage to R. D. Amy, who was one of the pioneer hard- ware merchants of this city. After his death she carried on the business for eighteen years. By her first marriage she had eight children, namely: Royal James Amy, a resident of Omaha; W. S. Amy and Mrs. Maggie Holst, both of Council Bluffs; Mrs. Mamie B. Husbands, of Salt Lake City; Lee D .; May ; Dixie; and Mary Ellen. The last four are now deceased.
Since the organization of the republican party Mr. Hammer has given it his support, has rejoiced in its victories and done all in his power to promote its successes. In earlier years he was quite active in political circles and served for eleven years as a member of the city council, exercising his official pre- rogatives in support of every measure and movement which he deemed would
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prove of public benefit. He also served for one term on the school board. He is now living quietly in the enjoyment of a well carned rest but he has not ceased to feel a deep interest in his city and country, keeping in touch with the onward march of progress. He has lived to witness great changes that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have brought about-the introduction of the telegraph and telephone, the building of railroads, and the reclamation of vast areas of wild land for the purposes of civilization. Council Bluffs, too, has kept pace with the trend of the times and Mr. Hammer has borne his full share in promoting public improvement here.
GEORGE S. DYE.
George S. Dye, who owns and controls valuable farming interests on sections 8 and 9, Carson township, has made his home in this county for almost a quarter century, having arrived in September, 1883. He is a representative of one of the old families of Pennsylvania, where occurred the birth of his great-grandfather, Andrew Dye. His grandfather, John Dye, became a pioneer of Ohio. His father, Henry Dye, was born in Miami county, Ohio, on the 27th of November, 1813. In 1838 he came to Iowa as a widower, his first wife having lived for only a year, and at her death left one son, Andrew, who died in a hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, while serving in the Civil war. Henry Dye came to Carson with the subject of this review and spent his last days in Potta- wattamie county, where he passed away at the age of seventy-five years. For his second wife he chose Jane Mickelwait, who was born in Yorkshire, England, April 23, 1823, and came to the United States when eight years of age with her parents, who first settled in Illinois and later removed to Van Buren county, Iowa. The death of Mrs. Dye occurred in Lee county, this state, September 25, 1861, and it was subsequent to this time that Henry Dye, the father, came to Carson with his son. Throughout his en- tire life he followed farming and was successful in that work. He was actively and helpfully interested in both educational and political affairs in his community, and he gave his political allegiance to the democracy. His family born of the second marriage numbered the following: Sylvester, a retired farmer of Council Bluffs; Mrs. Mary A. Gilmer, the widow of Robert Gilmer and a resident of California; John, of Macedonia township; Willoughby, of the same township; George; Charles H., an attorney living at Oregon City, Oregon; and Charlotte, who died at the age of nine years.
The birth of George S. Dye occurred at Fort Madison, Lee county, Iowa, April 6, 1854, his father having become one of the pioneer residents of that part of the state. He attended the public schools and remained in his native town until his removal to western Iowa in September, 1883, since which time he has resided in Pottawattamie county. He worked with his father on the old home farm in Lee county and in 1883 he purchased his
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present farm, becoming owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land. Upon this tract the house now stands. At the time of his purchase the place was unbroken prairie land but soon the track of the plow was seen across the fields and in course of time abundant harvests were being gath- ered as the result of the care and energy which Mr. Dye had bestowed upon the place. He has added to his original holdings until the farm now com- prises three hundred and sixty acres, on which are two sets of farm build- ings. Mr. Dye has made all the improvements, having erected two dwell- ings and put up three barns and various sheds for the shelter of grain and stock. He uses the latest improved machinery to carry on the work of the fields and in the cultivation of his farm employs the most modern and successful methods. The place is now known as the East Lawn Stock Farm and is devoted to the raising of grain and the feeding of cattle, his spe- cialty being full blooded polled Angus cattle. Mr. Dye is a man of resource- ful business ability and has extended his labors into other departments of activity. He owns an interest in the general store of Dye Brothers Com- pany in Macedonia, is a director in the Macedonia State Bank and was one of the organizers of the State Savings Bank of Carson, of which he has since been a director and is now vice president. In addition to his home farm he owns forty acres of land inside the corporation limits of Carson and has two hundred and forty acres in Harlan county, Nebraska. His investments have been judiciously made and his holdings are now valuable, bringing to him a splendid financial return for his industry, economy and capable management.
On the 7th of November, 1878, Mr. Dye was united in marriage to Miss Julia Celestia Kirk, who was born in Plattsburg, New York, March 11, 1855. She was reared, however, in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, whither she removed with her parents, Joseph and Charlotte (Meyer) Kirk, the former a native of Vermont and the latter of St. Petersburg, Russia. Her father was a civil engineer on the first railroad of Russia built between Moscow and St. Petersburg. On his trip there in 1843 he became acquainted with Charlotte Meyer, whom he wedded the following year. Her father was a sea captain and had three children born on the ocean. After her father's death Mrs. Kirk went to St. Petersburg. Mr. Kirk was a man of consid- erable ability and ingenuity in mechanical lines and aided in the construc- tion of several men-of-war for the United States at the iron works in Pitts- burg. He built the Manayunk and afterward the Ajacks. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kirk passed away in Pennsylvania and their daughter, Mrs. Dyc, afterward became a resident of Denmark, Lee county, Iowa, and for a time was a student in the academy there. She also engaged in teaching school in both Wisconsin and Iowa. She was one of a family of five children and the third in order of birth. The others were Joseph L., now of Pitts- burg, Pennsylvania; Mrs. Charlotte Sloat, of Denmark, Iowa; Mrs. Olga Dewey, living in Fort Madison, Iowa; and Albert, deceased. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Dye have been born eight children: Henry K., who is clerking in his father's store at Macedonia; Ralph B., a farmer of Oklahoma; Albert L., Olga J., Georgia S., J. Merl, Walter L. and Chester H,. all yet at home.
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In politics Mr. Dye has been a life-long democrat, unfaltering in his advocacy to the principles of the party. He belongs to Coral lodge, No. 430, A. F. & A. M., of Carson, and also to the Modern Woodmen camp of Carson. The first one hundred and sixty acres of land which he owned in this county was given him by his father, it being then a tract of unbroken prairie worth not more than ten dollars per acre. Through his industry and capable management he has accumulated the rest of his possessions and his property interests are now the visible evidence of his life of thrift and industry. Moreover, he is well known for his business integrity and has found in this western district the opportunities which he sought. His life proves that success and an honorable name may be won simultaneously. ›
W. G. GEISE.
W. G. Geise, who has prospered in his undertakings as a farmer and stock-raiser until he now owns a good property of one hundred and sixty acres on section 32, Neola township, notwithstanding the fact that he started out in life empty-handed, is a native son of Pottawattamie county, born Feb- ruary 1, 1878. His father, Adolph Geise, was one of the large landowners and a leading agriculturist of the county for many years, having settled here when this was a pioneer district. He aided in its substantial development and improvement through the reclamation of wild land for the purpose of civilization.
W. G. Geise was reared to farm life, early becoming familiar with the duties and labors that fall to the lot of the agriculturist. The common schools afforded him his early educational privileges and he afterward became a student in the agricultural department of the State University at Madison, Wisconsin. After completing his course there he went to New York city and was connected with a dairy on Statten island. He afterward made his way to Montana, where for a year and a half he was upon a dairy farm. Re- turning to Pottawattamie county, he lived upon the home place for a year and following his marriage located on his present farm, where he has erected a neat, substantial residence and the necessary outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. He has also planted some fruit and made the farm a property creditable to himself and to the community. He cultivates various cereals best adapted to soil and climate and is also raising and feeding hogs, while upon his place he has about two carloads of steers, which he has fat- tened for the market. His live-stock interests constitute an important source of revenue to him and the capable management of his business affairs is shown in the success which is attending his labors.
On the 6th of January, 1903, Mr. Geise was married in Neola township to Miss Mae Roane, who was born and reared in this county and educated in the public schools. Her father, John Roane, now of Neola, is president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank there. Mr. and Mrs. Geise attend the Presby- terian church, while he was formerly a member of the Lutheran church. His
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political endorsement has been given the democracy since age conferred upon him the rights of franchise. He has never sought or desired office, however, preferring to concentrate his energies upon his business affairs, and as a farmer and stock-raiser he is meeting with gratifying success.
HENRY WIESE.
The present financial position of Henry Wiese is in strong contrast to his possessions at the time he arrived in America after a voyage from the fatherland to the new world. The intervening years have been fraught with earnest, persistent labor and there has been no esoteric phase in his career but on the contrary his industry and perseverance constitute not only the foundation but also the superstructure of his success.
Mr. Wiese was born in Holstein, Germany, on the 26th of December, 1848, his parents being Joachim and Bertha (Stoltenberg) Wiese, whose family numbered six children, four now living in America. The eldest sister of our subject is Margaret, now the wife of C. H. Beuck, city engineer of Davenport, Iowa. His brother Peter is living in Nevada, while Mrs. Anna Rehr, the younger sister, is a widow living in Chicago. The parents were both natives of Germany, where they spent their entire lives.
Henry Wiese was reared in his father's home and acquired his education in the schools of Germany, early attending a preparatory school at Kiel, while later he was a student in the Polytechnic School in Hanover, this being one of the most noted schools of Europe. Kiel, during his boyhood days, was a little city of fourteen thousand population and today it contains about two hundred thousand and is a great naval station, having one of the finest harbors in the world.
In the Polytechnic School Mr. Wiese pursued a course in civil engineer- ing, and in 1868 he came to the United States, locating temporarily at Davenport, Iowa, where he followed civil engineering for five years. He was employed on a survey of railroad lines through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota and thus traveled quite extensively throughout the middle west, so that he became well versed concerning this section of the country and its possibilities. In 1873 he made his way to Avoca, Iowa, and for a time was engaged in the land business. For four years he sold farm lands and during that period he entered into partnership with H. O. Seiffert, who had come to Avoca from Davenport in 1874. In connection with their land business they extended their operations to other fields of activity, building and conducting a brickyard. In 1877 they also engaged in the lumber business and yet continued in the manufacture of brick.
Mr. Wiese was interested in both lines of business until 1900. when he sold out and retired from active life save for the supervision which he gives to his investments. About 1893 he became identified with the Avoca State Bank and since that time has been a member of the board of directors of
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this well known and reliable financial institution. He is also a stockholder in and one of the directors of the Avoca Electric Light Company, and for years has been one of the dominant factors in the business circles of Avoca. Its commercial and industrial prosperity is due in no small degree to his efforts and he belongs to that class of representative American men who, while promoting individual success also contribute in large measure to general prosperity. He derives a large share of his income from fourteen hundred acres of farm land, which he owns in Pottawattamie county. His large invest- ments in real estate and varied business interests have made him one of . the wealthy men of this section. He is now extensively interested in timber land in Washington and has made numerous trips to that region for the purpose of investments.
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