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him. His grandfather Bush's mother was a daughter of Charles Car- rolton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The family have long been identified with the Methodist Episcopal church. In one branch of the family were found five brothers and two sisters, the brothers all Methodist ministers and the sisters wives of Metho- dist ministers. Mr. Bush was himself a stanch Methodist, as also was his good wife, and their only daughter, Ruhama, married a Methodist minister, the Rev. D. B. Lake.
D. B. Lake, whose name thus carries forward the genealogical record and family history of this branch of the Bush family into suc- ceeding generations, was born in Canada, June 15, 1845, a son of Amos and Mary (Dennis) Lake, the former a native of Yates county, New York, born in 1820, and the latter a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1822. His parents were married in Victoria county, Ontario, in 1842, and passed their lives as farmers. Their large family of ten chil- dren all reached maturity. D. B. Lake in his youth received an aca- demic education, and at the age of sixteen began working at the car- penter's trade, which he followed for three years. Early in life, in Vic- toria county, Ontario, he was made a local preacher, and in 1868 he joined the Toronto conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. In 1870 he came to Nebraska, and preached on circuits for several years in Missouri and Nebraska. Finally failing health compelled him to seek a supernumerary relation. Subsequently he returned to the active work of the ministry, and for some years he had regular charges, being a potent force in the conference and doing much valuable work, build- ing churches and adding to the membership.
Mr. Lake married Miss Bush December 14, 1870, in Glen Rock precinct, Nemaha county, Nebraska, where they now live. They have had two children, Walter, who died in infancy, and Charles, who has
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chief charge of the farm. Mr. Lake is a broad-gauged man, mentally, socially and physically, weighing two hundred and seventy-five pounds. His library of eight hundred volumes is one of the largest owned by a private individual in this part of the state, and he shows the polish that comes from library study as well as that which comes from contact with men and the world.
J. LEE DALBEY.
J. Lee Dalbey, publisher and editor of the Shubert Citisen, has been in the printing and newspaper business since he was a boy of six- teen years, having been a man of experience in the profession long before the modern machinery for type-setting and rapid manifold printing were thought of. His career has been typical, for he has had many of the ups and downs of the veritable journalist, and only recently, in August, 1903, his plant was burned out with great loss to him, but the Citizen still continues to enlighten the public of all the news in and about Shubert, and in the spring of 1904 the paper moved to a home of its own, and was equipped with a new dress, im- proved machinery and everything mechanical needed to make it keep its lead among the enterprising, bright and public-spirited journals of Richardson county. The Shubert Citizen was established by Mr. Dalbey on April 6, 1893, and has had a successful career of more than a decade. It was begun as a seven-column folio, and is now a six- column quarto, with from four hundred to five hundred subscribers, and the office does an especially large business in job printing and ad- vertising, for which it is well equipped and has gained a reputation for high-grade work.
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Mr. Dalbey was born in Jamestown, Ohio, July 1, 1846, a son of Dr. Jacob S. and Delilah Albertine (Johnson) Dalbey, the former of whom was born in Ohio in 1811, and the latter in Virginia, March 4, 1812, and they were married at the county seat of Highland county, Ohio, in January, 1831. Dr. Dalbey was a life-long eclectic physician, and was a resident of Indiana, where one son was born, later of Ohio, and in 1847 came to Iowa. He was a man of considerable property, and in addition to his practice carried on merchandising for some time. He died in Montezuma, Iowa, January 27, 1866, and his wife survived him and died at Falls City, Nebraska, at the age of eighty- four years. They reared ten of their thirteen children, and seven are now living, as follows: Simeon J. is a music dealer in Des Moines, Iowa, and has three children; J. W. is an attorney at Hamburg Iowa, and president of the Big Four Mining Company at Deadwood, South Dakota, and has one son; Mrs. Louisa Day lives in Helva, Nebraska, and has two sons and two daughters: J. Lee is the next child; Mrs. Mary Margaret Sherman, of Kankakee, Illinois, has two children: Frances Lydia Davis lives in Falls City ; and Mrs. Alice McLeod has two sons, and her husband is manager of a mine at Deadwood, South Dakota.
J. Lee Dalbey was in the common schools of Montezuma. Iowa, until May 21, 1861, when he began as apprentice to the printing trade with Frank Campbell, who was later a captain in the army and lieu- tenant-governor of Iowa. Before coming to Nebraska in 1879, Mr. Dalbey edited four different papers in Missouri and two in Iowa, He established the Leader at Falls City, and in 1888 came to Stella and established and conducted the Stella Press, which he carried on until coming to Shubert.
Mr. Dalbey was married at Hamburg, Iowa, July 31, 1870, to
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Miss Belle Hall, of Kentucky, a daughter of George B. and Della (Higgenbotham) Hall, both of Kentucky. Two children were born of this marriage, but the son, Louis, died in Albany, Missouri, when a month old; the daughter, Mrs. Agnes Tipton, now resides in Albany, Missouri, and has one son. Mr. Dalbey affiliates with the Masonic order, with the Knights of Pythias, is a commander of the Woodmen of the World, is a Highlander, and a member of the Knights and Ladies of Security. In politics he is a Democrat by principle, but runs his paper independently; his relatives are nearly all Republicans. He has never sought or held office, but was solicited to run for representative to the legislature. He and his wife are members of the Christian church, and are very popular people in the town and vicinity. They erected their present home and moved into it in October, 1899.
HARRY GUY HOOVER.
Harry Guy Hoover is a prominent young agriculturist and stock farmer residing one mile west of Nemaha, where he was born twenty- two years ago, September 29, 1881. His father, John P. Hoover was long a well known resident of this locality, and here he was called from this earth on the 24th of November, 1900, at the age of sixty-three years. His birth occurred in the east, but he was among the first to seek a home within the borders of Nebraska, where prosperity rewarded his efforts, and at his death he left a large estate. In this county he was united in marriage to Huldah Pavey, a native of Indiana, and here they spent nearly their entire lives and here eight children were born to bless their home, but the subject of this review is the only one of this large number now living. The mother entered into eternal rest
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on the 19th of November, 1902, passing away in the faith of the Epis- copal church, of which both she and her husband were worthy men- bers. Mr. John P. Hoover gave his political support to the Republican party, and was a stalwart advocate of its principles.
Harry Guy Hoover received his education in the schools of Nemaha, and here he has made his home throughout his life. He was the sole heir of his father's large estate, consisting of two hundred and forty acres divided into two farms, and also large herds of cattle, horses, sheep and swine. He now owns three hundred and fifty head of a fine grade of Shropshire sheep, selling from one to two car-loads annually, has sixty head of graded shorthorn cattle, and has about fifteen head of horses, well adapted to the different needs of the farm. His hogs are of the graded Poland China breed, which he fattens for the market. The substantial buildings which adorn this valuable homestead were placed there by his father, and the residence is surrounded by beautiful shade and fruit trees. Mr. Hoover is a young man of ex- cellent education, is broad-minded and patriotic, and merits the genuine regard which is freely accorded him.
JOHN D. SHUBERT.
John D. Shubert, proprietor of the Cedar Lake Farm, and dealer in fruit, poultry and ice, at the pretty little town of Shubert, which was named in honor of his father, has built up an enterprise of which he and the surrounding country may well be proud. In fact, the Cedar Lake Farm has reason to be called an institution, not a private farm, for the beauty and charm which it lends to the town, its many advant- ages as a place of recreation and pleasure to all the inhabitants of the
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country around, are within the reach of all, and the farm offers many of the attractions of an urban park to the residents of Shubert. The Cedar Lake Farm is situated on the west side of the town, part of it being within the corporation, and the grounds and the pretty ten-room cottage face the east. There are eighty-six acres in the place, and there is no better fruit farm in southeastern Nebraska, and few so good. Between the farm and the town is a wide avenue overarched with trees. Mr. Shubert bought this place of his father, and it was then part of a wheat farm, with no improvements save some fences, so that the transformation that he has wrought in its appearance and productivity is nothing short of wonderful. There are two fine apple orchards of twelve hundred trees of choice varieties, an acre of peach trees, over two hundred cherry trees, five hundred grape vines, an acre of blackberries and an acre and a half of strawberries. There is a fine" lake of spring water, from four to twelve feet deep, well stocked with fish. The ice house holds four hundred tons, and from it the town is supplied with that commodity. There are also arrangements for bathing and boating in the summer-time, and skating and toboganning in the winter season, so that it is a model farm, a model home, and a delightful summer resort.
Mr. Shubert was born in Mason county, Illinois, February 29, 1860, being thus a "leap-year child," and is the second child and eldest son of the eleven children of H. W. and Mary (Griffin) Shubert. As the family moved to Nebraska in 1865 as pioneers to the state he has lived here practically all his life and is a resident of forty years' stand- ing. He was educated in the district schools of Nemaha and Richard- son counties, being in school during the winter and at work on his father's farm during the other seasons of the year. For several years he was a leading hardware merchant in Shubert. He is a natural car-
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penter, and has built twelve residences in Shubert, all of which he has sold, and in 1900 he erected the beautiful story-and-a-half cottage on his place.
He remained at home until he was twenty-three years of age, and was married November 20, 1882, at Nemaha city, to Miss Rosa L. Rogers, who was born in Hardin county, Iowa, October 2, 1861, a daughter of Ezra D. and Mary (Sumner) Rogers, the former of whom was born in 1831 and reared in Tazewell county, Illinois, and the lat- ter was born in Missouri, January 8, 1837. These parents were mar- ried March 27, 1856, and reared seven of their eight children, as fol- lows; Laura E., the wife of James W. Coons, of Oklahoma, has five children; Helen M. is the wife of J. C. Rimel, of Auburn, Nebraska ; Mrs. Shubert is the third of the children; Alva, in Auburn, has three children ; Roy is a farmer in Aspinwall precinct and has one daughter; Effie is the wife of Charles Duerfeldt, a farmer of Aspinwall precinct. and has four children; and Edward is in Oklahoma and was married March, 1904. Mrs. Shubert's parents came to Nebraska in 1866 and settled on the home farm in Aspinwall precinct, Nemaha county, but are now living retired in Auburn, being bright and active in their ad- vanced years. Mr. and Mrs. Shubert have three children and have lost one : Merle, born October 30, 1887, is in the eighth grade of school; Worth was born September 22, 1889; the third child, a daughter, died in infancy; and Dale was born January 8, 1896. Mr. Shubert is a Modern Woodman, a strong Republican, and Mrs. Shubert is a meni- ber of the Christian church.
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ANTHONY WAYNE SNYDER.
Anthony Wayne Snyder, who was elected county supervisor and county commissioner of Gage county, Nebraska, in the fall of 1902, and is giving most excellent satisfaction to all in that responsible office, first came to Southeastern Nebraska thirty-three years ago, and has been a successful farmer and prominent resident of various counties in this state and Kansas ever since.
Mr. Snyder was born in Dayton, Ohio, August 27, 1837, a son of Eli and Barbara (Manning) Snyder, the former a son of Alexander Snyder, and a native of Maryland and of an old family of that state; the latter was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Eli and Bar- bara Snyder both died in Tippecanoe City, Ohio, when past seventy years of age. The former was a Democrat, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Nine of their children grew up, four sons and five daughters.
A. W. Snyder was reared on a farm in Ohio, was taught early the value of manual labor, and received a fair education in the public schools. In April, 1861, a few days after Fort Sumter was attacked, he enlisted at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in Company G, Seventh Indiana Infantry, under Captain Lord and Colonel Dumont. He was at the battle of Phillippi, West Virginia, and at Carrick's Ford, besides other skirmishes. He received an honorable discharge at Indianapolis, Indiana, after a creditable record as a soldier. He then returned home, and in 1870 came to Nebraska, locating in Nemaha county for two years, was in Richardson county for five years, in Johnson county nine years; then went to Sherman county, Kansas, and was on a home- stead for five years, after which he sold out and came to Gage county, Nebraska, and bought a nice farm of one hundred and twenty acres about two miles from Adams. He raises stock, and has made a suc-
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cess of his ventures since coming here. His farm is now valued at sixty dollars an acre.
In 1862, at the age of twenty-five, Mr. Snyder was married to Miss Christine Van Dusen, who had a brother in the Civil war. Eight children of this marriage are now living, as follows : Charles, Edward, Harry, Richard, W. Franklin, Hattie, Myrtle and Nellie. Mr. Snyder is a Democrat, but is tolerant in his views. He was elected county commissioner by a majority of thirty-one in a district usually Republi- can by two hundred votes, and this is ample evidence of the esteem and confidence in which he is held by all his fellow citizens and associates. He is a man of ability in the performance of his every-day duties, and his frank and genial nature opens the way for the formation of many friendships.
DR. W. T. SLOAN.
Dr. W. T. Sloan, a recent addition to the ranks of the medical fraternity of Gage county, Nebraska, and whose worth as a man and skill as a practitioner are already well recognized in the community, took up his residence in Adams in July 1902. He is thoroughly de- voted to the work of his profession, has a mind broadened and seasoned by contact with men and books, is affable and genial with all, and has at once taken rank with men of longer residence and greater experience.
Dr. Sloan is a Kentuckian, was born near Mill Springs, Wayne county, May 21, 1869, and comes of one of the old families of that county and state. His father, C. W. Sloan, was a farmer and stock- man, and was a strong advocate of Republican principles, during the Civil war espousing the cause of the Union. He died aged seventy-
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three years. His wife, whose maiden name was Mahala Tate, was a native of Kentucky, and by her marriage became the mother of twelve children, eleven of whom grew up and are still living.
Dr. Sloan was reared on a Wayne county farm, where he developed his muscle by hard work, besides learning many other valuable lessons which have staid with him in later life. He attended the common schools, and after deciding on the profession of medicine as his life work, entered the Lincoln Medical College, in Lincoln, Nebraska, from which he was graduated with the class of 1898. He had previously studied under the direction of Dr. Latta, a well known physician of Nebraska.
December 18, 1901, Dr. Sloan was married at Firth, Nebraska, to Miss Olive McElvain, a native of Nebraska and a lady of much in- telligence and a true helpmate to her husband. She was reared and educated in this state. Dr. Sloan is a Republican; he is a member of the State Medical Society; and affiliates with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is medical examiner for the Ancient Order of United Workmen and the Woodmen of the World.
JOHN-P. KING.
John P. King, who has recently retired from active participation in a long and successful career as stock farmer, is one of the oldest resi- dents of Richardson county, Nebraska, having taken up his abode here as an actual settler in the fall of 1860. He bought eighty acres of the Indians, for three dollars per acre, at the site where Barada now stands, and on this land he made the beginnings of his subsequent prosperity. He has always been known as an indefatigable worker as well ås capable
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business manager, and the large estate which he now owns is entirely the result of his own labors and intelligent efforts.
He was born at the head of Hemlock Lake, in Livingston county, New York, October 12, 1833, and in 1856 went west to Clayton county, Iowa, and from there four years later made his final long removal to Richardson county, Nebraska. For a number of years he was sur- rounded by the primitive conditions of real pioneer life, and his suc- cess was not gained without many privations in early life. He gave up active farming in 1901, when he had nearly reached the age of three score years and ten, and moved into a comfortable and pretty house in the town of Shubert, where he now enjoys comfortable ease, al- though he is vigorous and energetic as of yore and gives his attention to business and matters affecting the public welfare. He owns four farms in the county, aggregating six hundred and forty acres, and also has twenty acres of land just outside the city of Lincoln. He has fed and shipped large numbers of stock of his own raising, and has been successful in all departments of his farming. He has always been a stanch Republican in politics, but has never aspired to office, although he was elected to the office of mayor of Shubert in 1903, and has done well by his fellow citizens in the attention he has given to the affairs of that village. He affiliates with Hope Lodge No. 29, F. and A. M., and was master of the lodge for ten years.
Mr. King. comes of a good and long-established family in this country. His great-grandfather, Simeon King, married Mary Carver, a daughter of Jonathan Carver, who held a commission from the king to treat with the Indians about the Mississippi river, and had a deed to a tract of land near that river, which in size was to be a day's journey in each direction, but this deed was annulled after the Revolution. Simeon King, Jr., the grandfather, was a farmer in Vermont and New
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York, and most of his children were born in the latter state. His children were as follows: Ruth, a Mrs. Russell, of Waukesha, Wiscon- sin ; Minerva, the wife of a farmer in New York by the name of Graves; Mrs. Olive Carpenter, who died in Springwater, New York; Martin, who at the age of fourteen years went to the war of 1812, and died in Livingston county, New York, leaving two sons and one daughter; Sid- ney, who was an Ohio farmer; Mrs. Mindwell Hooker; Mason Avery; and Eliza, who died in girlhood.
Mason Avery King, Mr. King's father, was born in 1795, and died in 1872. He married, in 1825, Phebe Doud, of Connecticut, who was then eighteen years old, and who died in Richardson county, Ne- braska, in Humboldt, twelve years later than her husband, at the age of seventy-seven years. They were the parents of fourteen children : Jane is the present wife of George Swick, of Abilena, Kansas, and her first husband was Samuel Young. Ann married, first, Mr. J. M. Austin and, second, a Mr. Bradford, and she died in Shiawassee county, Michigan, leaving one son. Levi King was in the Union army, and died at Jackson, Tennessee, filling an unknown grave. John P. King is the fourth of the family. Ellen is the wife of M. D. Ford; in Jewell county, Kansas, and has four daughters and one son. Mary E. was a nurse in the Benton barracks during the Civil war, and was twice married, leaving, at her death, two sons, Fred and Ernest Fisher. Charles C. King served throughout the Civil war, having been honor- ably discharged three times, and came out a non-commissioned officer ; he lives in Jewell county, Kansas, and has one daughter and five sons. Hiram D. King was a member of the Missouri state militia during the Civila war, and died in Peru, Nebraska, leaving a wife and two sons. Daniel Webster King, of Pawnee county, Nebraska, has two sons and one daughter. L. R. King lives in Superior, Nebraska, and is a
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widower with two sons and three daughters; he entered the Union army at the age of seventeen and served in the cavalry for five years. the last year being spent on the western frontier. Rose, the wife of Frank Berry, died in Oregon when about forty-nine years old, leaving no children. Frank M. King is a merchant of Holton, Kansas, and has one son and two daughters. Vinton died at the age of five years. Sarah, the widow of George Lockridge, who was a Congregational minister, resides in Long Beach, California, and has two sons and two daughters.
Mr. John P. King was married at Garnavillo, Iowa, May 19, 1858, to Miss Mary Cornelia Slocum, who was born in Linesville, Crawford county, Pennslyvania, September 4, 1840, and comes of a well known and prominent family. Her parents were Samuel E. and Mary V. (Line) Slocum, the former of whom was born in Vergennes, Vermont, January 1, 1815, and now resides in Falls City, Nebraska, in his ninetieth year, having come to this state from Minnesota thirty- seven years ago, and having followed the occupation of farming dur- ing his active career; the latter was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, October 9, 1817, and died at the age of thirty-six years, leaving five of her six children: Mrs. King, the eldest; Phebe Storm, in Lincoln, Nebraska; James L., who is one of the wealthy men of Falls City, Nebraska, and president of the Richardson County Bank; George L., who is a stock farmer in Richardson county; and Rachel E. Hutchins, of Falls City.
Mr. and Mrs. King have seven children living of the eleven born to them. Corydon Elliott, born June 29, 1859, was the first child. May, the fifth child, is the wife of C. O. Tompkins, a prosperous stock farmer in this county, and has three daughters. Helen is the wife of Lee Bolejack, a farmer at Shubert. Myrtle is the wife of R. A. Downs,
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a banker in Emerson, Nebraska, and has one daughter. Donna is the wife of Professor Carr, of Shubert, and has one son; her husband is principal of the high school. John Royal King was graduated from the Western Normal College of Nebraska at the age of sixteen, and for the past two years has been a musician with the United States navy, being now stationed on the battleship Topeka, in the vicinity of Pana- ma ; he is a natural musician and has been with the Shubert band. J. Worth King is farming at home. Mr. and Mrs. King have five grand- children : The three children of Mrs. C. O. Tompkins, Gladys, Irene and Helen; Helen, the daughter of Mrs. Downs: and John Roland, the boy of Mrs. Carr.
GEORGE CROW.
George Crow, said to be the oldest living resident of Nemaha county, has enjoyed a life of many years and of much honor. Being now in his eighty-third year, he has a retrospect which takes in the most important period of this country's history. The state of Nebraska was not admitted into the Union until he was forty-six years old and in the prime of his manhood. When he first came to this part of the country the land was still in undisputed possession of the Indians, and his first departure from the trans-Missouri region was caused by the hostility of the redmen. He has made his name honored in the county because of his participation in the best movements for development and progress and because of his worthy individual career.
Mr. Crow's father, George Crow, came to America from Germany in 1798, when he was about fifteen years old, his parents settling in New Jersey. He was a brick-maker, and in the winter followed the
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