History of Nemaha County, Kansas, Part 86

Author: Tennal, Ralph 1872-
Publication date: 1916
Publisher: Lawrence, Kan., Standard Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 964


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His wife, Mary, was born in Ohio, February 15, 1858. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer are parents of thirteen children, as follows: Mrs. Nettie Rich- ardson, Oklahoma; Mrs. Lena Brown, Wathena, Kans .; Thomas, farm- ing in Oklahoma; Rosa, wife of Mr. Karns; Mrs. Bertha Disney, on a farm near Porters, Kans .; Ross, a farmer near Downs, Kans .; Mrs. Ethel Brumbaugh, wife of a merchant at Porters, Kans .; Mrs. Ina Kis- sell, wife of an editor at Porters, Kans .; Fred, George, Fayette, and Essie, at home with their parents; one child died in infancy. .


Mr. Karns is vice-president of the Bancroft State Bank, a thriving financial institution, which is incorporated with a capital of $15,000. He is allied with the Republican party, and is affiliated with the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. Mrs. Karns is a member of the Christian church.


Harvey Hittle, farmer of Reilly township, was born in Rush county, Indiana, April 14, 1845, and is a son of Henry and Mary (Busell) Hittle. Henry Hittle, his father, was born in Greene county, Ohio, January 15, 1818, and became a wheelwright and carpenter. He followed his trade until 1887 in Indiana and Iowa, where he also followed farming. In 1887 he sold his farm and retired to a home at Lovilia, Iowa, where he died August 14, 1897. His wife, Mary, was born in Ohio, September 4, 1817, and bore him children as follows: Sarah Ann, born November 13, 1841 ; William, born in September, 1842; Hester Ann, born October 12, 1843; Harvey, born April 14, 1845; Elizabeth, born September 4, 1846; Barney, born April 6, 1848: Lydia M., born May 3, 1849; Elithia J., born June 20, 1850; Mary C., born April 4, 1852; Susan P., born De- cember 15, 1853; Francis A., born November 20, 1854; John D., born February 8, 1856; the thirteenth child died in infancy, September 4. 1857; Nancy C., born October 23, 1858; Henry Elwood, born April 14, 1860; Greenbury, born August 30, 1861.


When Harvey Hittle was twenty-two years old he rented land in his native State for two years and then migrated to western Iowa in 1869. Seven years later, (1876), he came to Kansas, and farmed for five years in Doniphan county. He then took up a timber claim in Rawlins county, Kansas. In 1881 he bought eighty acres in Reilly township, Nemaha county, which has been his home for the past thirty-five years. During the Civil war, Mr. Hittle served for two years and four months as a member of Company C, Eighth Iowa cavalry.


Mr. Hittle was married to Sarah Jane Gano, April 30, 1878, and this marriage has been blessed with sixteen children, as follows: George M., born January 23, 1879; a child died in infancy, April 9. 1880: John H., born January 29, 1881 ; Robert A., born December 1, 1882; Alma O .. born July 23, 1884 ; Jessie R., born April 4, 1886; Charles William, born


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November 23, 1887; Mary E., born July 24, 1889; Melissa B., born April II, 1891 ; Benjamin F., born January 15, 1893; Alice V., born June 27. 1895; James M., born August 16, 1897; Clarence, born February 14, 1900; the fourteenth child died in infancy, January 13, 1902; Bernice Loretta, born April 23, 1903; the sixteenth child died in infancy, March 19, 1905. The mother of this large family was born in Marshall county, Iowa, December 12, 1863, and was married to Harvey Hittle, April 30, 1878. She is a daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Wilkes) Gano. Her father was born in Ohio, August 27, 1838, and followed farming in Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. He departed this life, December 9, 1868. Eliza- beth, his wife, was born in Greene county, Indiana, May 20, 1843. By her marriage with Mr. Gano, there were five children, as follows : Robert, born August 6, 1860; George W., born December 12, 1863 : Sarah J., born December 12, 1863; Emily N., born July 6, 1865; Matilda J., born March 17, 1867.


Mr. Hittle is a Republican and has served as a member of the local school board and as road overseer. He is a member of the Grand Army of the Republic .. The most notable accomplishment of his long life, however, aside from his service in behalf of the Union, is the fact that he and his good wife have reared one of the largest families in Nemaha county and honor and credit is due them for their large contribution to the civic body of the county and State.


Michael Malone .- The late Michael Malone of Reilly township was one of the oldest of the Kansas pioneers, and was one of the earliest of the settlers of Reilly township, Nemaha county. He was a veteran of the Civil war and left a record behind him at his demise, of which his descendants may well be proud.


Michael Malone was born in Ireland in 1825, and lived in his native land until he was seventeen years old. He then realized his youthful dream of coming to America in search of fortune and adventure, and found both in the years that passed after his arrival on the hospitable and friendly shores of the new world. He first located in Illinois, and worked out as a farm hand until his removal to Iowa, where he farmed until the outbreak of the Civil war. When the call came from Presi- dent Lincoln for volunteers to quell the rebellion of the southern States, this loyal, adopted son of America responded, and fought bravely in de- fense of the Union from 1861 to the close of the war when he received his honorable discharge from Company A, First Iowa cavalry regiment. After his discharge, he engaged in railroad construction work with four teams which he owned. He followed this occupation for a season, and then came to Kansas, and purchased 126 acres in Jackson county, which he farmed for twelve years. He then sold this tract and bought a half section in Reilly township, Nemaha county, which he improved and made his home thereon until his demise on April 22, 1905.


Michael Malone was married in 1869 to Catharine Boucher, who was born in Ireland, November 15, 1839. To this marriage were


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born children, as follows: Mary, born June 27, 1871; John, born Octo- ber 20, 1874, farming the home place and owns 160 acres; William, born June 17, 1877, and died June 30, 1880. Mrs. Malone and her children are members of the Catholic church. Mr. Malone was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.


Joseph F. Severin .- For an individual to begin his career in Nemaha county with a quarter section of land only partially improved and to increase his holdings to the large total of 720 acres in a little over twenty years is remarkable and is an indication of financial and agricultural ability of a high order. It requires intelligence and concentrated effort for a farmer to succeed as well as Joseph F. Severin, of Marion town- ship, has done, and his success is in keeping with the ambition and char- acter of the man himself. The secret of Mr. Severin's success is par- tially explained when it is known that he is an extensive breeder and shipper of Duroc Jersey hogs of the pure. bred class, and to this special department of farming he has devoted his attention for several years, and he usually raises and ships from 250 to 300 head of hogs annually in car load lots direct to the city markets.


Joseph F. Severin was born in Doddridge county, West Virginia, February 19, 1867, and is a son of Frederick J. and Julia Ann (Rahrig) Severin, for further details of whom the reader is referred to the biog- raphy of Frederick W. Severin, a brother of Joseph F., who resides in Marion township. Joseph F. Severin was reared on his father's farm in Doddridge county, West Virginia, and attended school but three months out of each year until he was seventeen years old. He remained at home, assisting his father on the home place until he attained his majority. In 1888 he left the old home and made his way to Doniphan county, Kansas, where he worked as a farm hand for two years for $20 per month. He then went west to Montana and followed various occu- pations for a little over a year, when he returned to his old home in West Virginia. He remained there until 1892, and then returned to Kansas and clerked in a grocery store in Doniphan county, and also engaged in the grain and live stock business with his brother, John B. Severin, at Bendena, Kans., until his marriage in 1895. After his marriage he lo- cated in Nemaha county and bought 160 acres of land in section 17, Marion township. This farm was poorly improved with a small house and a typical Kansas pioneer barn, built of poles and roofed with hay and straw. It is needless to state that Mr. Severin's farm is well im- proved at the present time with a good farm residence and well built outbuildings of a modern type. During the twenty years he has been in Nemaha county, industriously applying his talents, fortune has smiled upon this West Virginia gentleman and he has accumulated a total of 720 acres of land. 240 acres of which are in his home farm in Nemaha county, 160 in Marshall county, Kansas, and 320 acres in Osborn county, Kansas. He is an extensive live stock raiser and has made a success of raising Duroc Jersey hogs for market.


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Mr. Severin was united in marriage with Miss Nancy Gray, of Don- iphan county, Kansas, on February 20, 1895, and to this union have been born the following children: Ethel, Erwin and John, at home with their parents. Mrs. Nancy Severin was born on a farm in Doniphan county, February 29, 1860, and is a daughter of James and Hanora (Kirwin) Gray, natives of Ireland, and early pioneer settlers in Doniphan county. For a history of the Gray family in Kansas, the reader is referred to a "History of Doniphan County," written and published in 1905, by Patrick Gray, a brother of Mrs. Severin.


Mr. Severin is allied with the Democratic party, but has never sought political preferment of any kind. Mr. and Mrs. Severin are mem- bers of the Catholic church and contribute of their means to the support of this denomination.


William D. Calder, owner of a fine farm of 160 acres in Reilly town- ship, was born in Marshall county, Illinois, September 29, 1870, and is a son of James D. and Mary (Vincent) Calder, the former of whom was born in New York, on October 30, 1841, and worked for his broth- er-in-law while he served in the Union army. Shortly after his marriage he purchased eighty acres in Illinois and farmed it for ten years, after which he sold out and bought land in Iowa, where he lived for three years when he sold out and again bought land in Illinois. He remained there for twelve years, and then immigrated to Nebraska, where he bought 320 acres which form his present home place. For the past sixteen years, J. D. Calder has been retired from active farming, and makes his home at Hardy, Neb. He is a trustee of the Methodist church, is a Republican, and is affiliated with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. The senior Calder was married in 1868 to Mary Vincent, who was born at Syracuse, N. Y., on March 8, 1842, and who was a teacher previous to her marriage. J. D. and Mary Calder were parents of five children, namely: Mrs. Sarah Goodenough, Thorn- burg, Iowa; William D., subject of this review; Fred, a farmer at Hardy, Neb .; Mrs. Gertrude Richardson, Minneapolis, Minn .; Mrs. Harriet Twinem, Hardy, Neb.


· William D. Calder received a good common school education, and attended business college at Lincoln, Neb., previous to making his own way in the world at the age of twenty-two years. He first bought 125 acres in Republic county, Kansas, upon which he lived for five years, and then sold out and bought an eighty near Goff. Five years later, he sold this tract, and bought 120 acres near Bancroft upon which he lived for five years. He sold out then and went to Hardy, Neb., where he engaged in the hardware business for one year. This was a losing ven- ture, and he disposed of his stock of goods and bought a quarter section in Reilly township, where he is now living. This farm is known as the "Square Deal Stock Farm," and noted for its pure bred Poland China swine, of which there are 100 head on the place. Mr. Calder also keeps high grade Durham cattle. In addition to his own farm, he rents


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another eighty acres, and has planted this year about ninety-five acres of corn, sixty acres of wheat, and twenty-five acres of oats, the produc- tion of which acreage he feeds to live stock on the place.


Mr. Calder was married February 28, 1893, to Miss Alice Davis, a daughter of Lyman A. and Anna (Hoyt) Davis, who has borne him three children, as follows: Dewitt, a graduate of the Goff, Kans., and Hardy, Neb., schools, born at Warwick, Kans., January 17, 1894; Mrs. Fern Henry, living near Goff, born August 27, 1895, and graduated from Goff High School; Marion May, born November 28, 1900, student at Bancroft School, class of 1917. Mrs. Alice Calder was born on a farm near Goff, Kans., September 21, 1877, and is a daughter of Lyman A. Davis, who was born at Florida, N. Y., September 6, 1839, and died at Bancroft, Kans., January 8, 1910. He immigrated to Wisconsin, and served in the Third Wisconsin volunteer cavalry regiment from 1862 to 1863, and was mustered out of the service at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans. He migrated to Kansas in 1866, and settled in the Maple Shade neigh- borhood where he resided until a short time previous to his demise at Bancroft, Kans. Mr. Davis was married at Bangor, Wis., on August 28, 1864, to Anna A. Hoyt, who bore him children, as follows: William E., Davis, Ontario, Kans .; H. G. Davis and D. E. Davis, Goff, Kans., and Mrs. Alice A. Calder, and Effie who died in infancy. Mrs. Aurelia Anna (Hoyt) Davis was born at Big Prairie, Kalamazoo county, Mich- igan, November 22, 1847, and died December 8, 1914. Mr. Davis was a member of the Odd Fellows, and Mrs. Davis was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church for forty-five years.


Mr. Calder is a Republican who has served on the school board, and filled the offices of trustee and township clerk. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and is past grand of the order. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen lodge. Mr. and Mrs. Calder are members of the Methodist Episcopal church, and Mr. Calder is the efficient superintendent of the Goff M. E. Sunday school.


Rudolph J. Hanni, proprietor of an excellent modern farm of 160 " acres in Reilly township, near Corning, was born at Bern, Kans., Octo- ber 30, 1877, and is a son of Gotlieb and Marie (Blauer) Hanni, natives of Switzerland. His father, Gotlieb Hanni, was born in 1838, and immi- grated to America in 1871. He located at Bern, Nemaha county, Kan- sas, and after two years spent as farm hand, he homesteaded an eighty acre tract, and later bought an additional eighty acres. He farmed his tract until his death in July, 1901. He was a member of the Lutheran church. Marie Blauer, his wife, was born in 1843, and she and Mr. Hanni were married in 1869. Gotlieb and Marie Hanni were parents of the following children: Gotlieb, a farmer living near Bern, Kans .; Mrs. Emma Reinhart, deceased; Mrs. Mary Beyreis, Du Bois, Neb .: Mrs. Lena Ramsyer, Dickinson county, Kansas ; Rudolph J., sub- ject of this review; Mrs. Rosa Hinton, Baileyville, Kans .; John, a farmer in Jackson county.


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Rudolph J. Hanni started out in life for himself at the age of nine- teen years, and worked as farm hand at monthly wages for two years. He then rented 160 acres on his own account for two years. After a four months' trip to California, he decided that Kansas was the best place for him to live after all, and he again worked out by the month until the following spring, after which he bought 160 acres in Reilly township, near Corning, which is his present home. This year, (1916), Mr. Hanni has sown seventy-five acres of corn, thirteen acres of alfalfa and fourteen acres of oats. He has thirteen head of cattle, sixty-seven head of hogs, and thirteen head of brood mares and mules.


Mr. Hanni was married in 1900 to Emma Blauer, a daughter of Gotlieb Christian and Marie (Berger) Blauer. Her father was born in Switzerland on December 26, 1835. He immigrated to America in 1870, and followed market gardening near Chicago, Ill., for eight years. He then came to Corning. Kans., rented for five years, and then bought eighty acres near Corning upon which he lived until his death, April 9, 1904. Marie, his wife, was born in Switzerland, March 17, 1836, and died September 11, 1902. She was the mother of five children, as fol- lows: Marie, died in infancy : John, deccased at the age of thirty-seven years, at Corning, Kans .; William, lives in California: Fred, died in infancy ; Emma, wife of Mr. Hanni, was born at Corning, Kans., Feb- ruary 13. 1878.


Mr. and Mrs. Hanni are parents of four children, namely: Lola Amelia, born January 17. 1902, and died in infancy; Lula Marie, born May 7, 1904: Beulah Wilma, born November 2, 1906; Von William, born June 23, 1915, all born at Corning. Kans. Mr. Hanni is a Repub- lican, and is a member and conductor of the Farmers' Union. He and Mrs. Hanni are members of the Methodist church, and Mrs. Hanni is affiliated with the Knights and Ladies of Security.


John Butler .- The late John Butler of Reilly township, Nemaha county, Kansas, was born on a farm in Illinois, February 10, 1848. Hc was reared to young manhood in Illinois, and migrated to Kansas in 1885. He at once located in Reilly township, and developed a fine farm of 160 acres, which is now owned by his widow. Mr. Butler departed this life on February 18, 1914. He was a life long Democrat and a good, industrious citizen of whom many kind and appreciative words were spoken in praise of his many good qualities at the time of his demise. He was married on October 20. 1901, to Mrs. Lucy (Hinton) Green, widow of Edwin A. Green. She was a daughter of Zacharias and Frances (Caton) Hinton, natives of Kentucky. Zacharias Hinton was born and reared in Kentucky. When the Civil war broke out, he enlisted for service in a Missouri regiment, but contracted measles while on duty and died. He was father of three children, namely: Mrs. Mary Ellen (Brunson) Brownfield, living at Holton, Kans .: Anna Ro- wena, died in infancy; Lucy Margaret, widow of John Butler. She was born in Missouri, on February 19, 1862, and began working out as


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a domestic when fourteen years old. She was first married on May 2, 1880, to Edwin A. Green, and bore him children, as follows: Mrs. Eva Myrtle Palmer, of Holyoke, Colo .; Enos Edgar, deceased; Amos Noel, a farmer at Phillipsburg, Kans .; Walter Clarence, a laborer at Logan, Kans .; Ross Anthony, a farmer at Logan, Kans .; Beulah Alma, at home with her mother. The mother of these children was separated from Edwin A. Green in April of 1897, and in 1901, she was married to the late John Butler, who was a kind and indulgent husband, and was a good parent to her children.


John Butler was twice married. His first wife was Sarah Elizabeth Warner, who bore him four children, as follows: George, Wallace, Kans .; Claude M., Chicago, Ill .; Melva, Chicago, Ill .; Louis, Chicago, I11.


Adolph J. Gabbert, the oldest living settler and farmer of Reilly township, was born in Germany, June 30, 1845. He is a son of Gotlieb, born in Germany in 1793, and Christina (Schwackenwaldt) Gabbert, born in 1800. He was the eighth of nine children, born to his parents, as follows: Frederick, died at the age of seventy-five; Mrs. Minnie Redman, died at the age of forty-five; William, died in Iowa, aged seventy-five years; Mrs. Rosana Stach, died at the age of forty-seven years; Mrs. Augusta Schmidt, died at the age of twenty-seven years ; August, died at the age of seventy-three years ; Louis, living in Chicago, Ill., and Adolph J., Sr., subject of this review.


Mr. Gabbert began making his own way when fifteen years old, and when seventeen years of age, he immigrated to America. For five years, he worked on the railroads in Indiana, and then came to Kansas in 1867, and invested his savings in 360 acres of land in Reilly township, which he improved and has since made his home. Mr. Gabbert is well provided with this world's goods, and his lifetime of ceaseless endeavor and hard work have enabled him to retire from active work in 1901, at which time he turned over the management of his large farm to his son, Adolph, Jr.


He was married, in 1867, to Miss Louisa Keeter, a daughter of August and Wilhelmina Keeter. Eight children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Gabbert, as follows: Augustus F., a farmer in Reilly town- ship; Mrs. Alice Reilly, living on a farm in Reilly township; three children died in infancy; Adolph, Jr., farming the home place; twins died in infancy. Mrs. Louisa Gabbert was born in Germany in 1848, and died in April, 1881. Her father, August Keeter, was born, reared, and married in Germany, and immigrated to America in 1857. He first located in Indiana, and farmed there until his death in 1883. His wife and the mother of Mrs. Gabbert died in 1909. They (Mr. and Mrs. Keeter) were parents of children, as follows: Louisa, wife of the sub- ject of this sketch ; Augusta, lives in Ohio; Mrs. Minnie Terry, a widow living in Indiana; a .child died in infancy. Mr. Gabbert is a Democrat in politics, and is a member of the Lutheran church.


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Adolph Gabbert, Jr., owner of 186 acres on his own account in Reilly township, was born January 5, 1879, in Nemaha county. He was reared to young manhood on the parental farm, and began for himself when he was twenty-one years old. He has had charge of his father's large farm for the past sixteen years, and also farms all of his own land. Mr. Gabbert has recently planted an orchard of 125 trees on his place, and is an industrious young farmer. He is a Democrat, and has served as township treasurer for two terms, and is a candidate for township trustee this year (1916). He is a member and president of the Farmers' Union for the past two years. Mr. Gabbert was married on March 19, 1902, to Evaline Wilcox, a daughter of William T. and Sarah (Tim- mons) Wilcox. For the biography of William T. Wilcox, the reader is referred to the sketch of J. E. Wilcox. Sarah Timmons was the third wife of William T. Wilcox, and was born in Indiana, December 16, 1859, and died August 26, 1886. She was the mother of the following chil- dren: Mrs. Josephine Gabbert, Reilly township; Mrs. Julia May Whit- · craft, Axtell, Kans .; Mrs. Johanna Maud Rice, Gooding, Idaho; Eva- line, wife of A. J. Gabbert, Jr .; Emeline Faulkender, Bancroft, Kans. (twin sister of Evaline) ; twins died at birth. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Gabbert, Jr., have five children, namely: Harold, born September 7, 1903; Hazel, born March 15, 1905; Roland and Ralph (twins) born May 2, 1907; Francis, born April 21, 1913. The mother of these chil- dren was born on a farm near Bancroft, July 17, 1883. She is a member of the United Brethren church.


William Broadbent, proprietor of a fine farm of 160 acres in Red Vermillion township, was born in Illinois, December 8, 1879, and is a son of Valentine and Marian (Walters) Broadbent, whose biographies. are found in the review of the life of R. E. Broadbent in this volume. When William Broadbent was twenty-four years old, he went to Cali- fornia, and was employed in an orange grove for two years. Upon his return to Kansas, he rented land for two years, and then purchased the quarter section upon which he has lived since and has added some im- provements thereon. He has over forty head of Duroc Jersey hogs and some cattle and horses.


Mr. Broadbent was married, in 1900, to Gurta Funk, born on a farm near Corning, Kans., October 17, 1879, and a daughter of Christ and Julia (Bergesen) Funk, natives of Denmark and Norway respec- tively. Christ Funk was born in 1857, and emigrated from Denmark to this country when eighteen years old. He lived in Illinois until 1879. and then came to Kansas, and settled on a quarter section near Corning, upon which he lived for four years. He then went to Emporia, Kans., and engaged in the egg and poultry business until his death in 19II. He was a member of the 'Lutheran church, and was a Democrat. His lodge affiliation was with the Improved Order of Red Men. His wife, Julia, was born in Norway in 1849, and came to America when eighteen years of age and worked in Illinois, previous to her marriage.


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Both she and her husband were employed by Clark Mills before their marriage, and a year after they were married, they accompanied Mr. Mills to the West, and hauled the lumber for their new home all the way from Chicago. They reside on the old homestead near Corning. Mr. and Mrs. Funk are parents of three children, namely: Gurta, wife of William Broadbent; Charles, on the home place with his mother; Mrs. Amelia Hoffman, whose husband. is a drayman at Waterville, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Broadbent have six children, as follows: Phyllis, born June 21, 1905; Allison, born April 20, 1907 ; Edwina, born October 28, 1908; Veda, born March 11, 1911 ; Donna, born July 30, 1914; Muriel, born April 9, 1916.




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